Penguin classics

Offers insight to Albert Einstein's theory of relativity from a general scientific and philosophical point of view.

A company of thirty-one pilgrims tell their stories on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas at Canterbury. Includes an introduction and notes.

Solomon Northup tells about being kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South after having been a free citizen in New York during the mid-1800s.

A sensitive young man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana relates the haunting memories of his proud heritage while drifting through life on his father's ranch in a search for meaning.

Elizabeth Gaskell's nineteenth-century novel about class, labor, and religious conflicts in northern England, and the southern woman who moves there, falls in love with the local mill's owner, and has sympathy for the plight of his workers.

Presents the 1848 novel about Mary Barton, the daughter of a Manchester mill worker and trade unionist who is forced to consider her real allegiances and feelings when Jem Wilson, a man whose love she has rejected, is accused of killing Henry Carson, the son of one of the mill owners, who has caught Mary's eye.

Presents an English translation of the sixteenth-century text by Italian author Baldassare Castiglione, in which he describes the attributes and accomplishments required of the perfect courtier.

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America.

Translates Goethe's 1774 novel in which a young artist falls for a young married woman and takes drastic measures to relieve the misery of his unrequited love.