Everyman's library

Contains modern translations of five stories by the eighteenth-century French author, including the title selection about a simple, optimistic man whose travels take him from one disaster to another; and includes a critical introduction and a chronology.

Presents contemporary translations of a selection of stories from "The Arabian Nights," including the tales of Sindbad, Aladdin, and 'Ali Baba.

Virgil's epic poem describing the fall of Troy and the legendary origin of Rome in English prose.

The story of four generations of the Buddenbrooks, a wealthy family in northern Germany.

Humbert Humbert's obsession for Dolores Haze leads him to marry her mother just so he can be closer to her, but soon his love for Dolores drives him to madness.

An autobiographical account of the life of writer Vladimir Nabokov.

A collection of short stories written for adults by British author Roald Dahl.

Presents a one-volume edition of the three novels in the Cairo Trilogy which follows three generations of the family of Muslim patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad during the British occupation of Egypt in the early years of the twentieth century.

A statement and defense of capitalist economics, first published in the late eighteenth century by Scottish scholar Adam Smith.