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The sorrows of young Werther

1989
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.

Daisy Miller

1986
Classic novella about a captivating young American, Daisy Miller, whose behavior causes conflicting feelings in the mind of would-be suitor, Winterbourne.

Selected essays

1982
Presents fifteen essays and addresses by nineteenth-century American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, including such important works as "Self-Reliance, " "The Over-Soul, " and "Nature.".

Classical literary criticism

2004
Presents seven classic philosophical works by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, and Longinus, and includes explanatory notes.

Twenty love poems and a song of despair

2006
A collection of love poems written by Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

Complete short stories

2005
Contains a collection of the complete short stories of British writer, Graham Greene, author of "The Power and the Glory, " and "The Heart of the Matter.".

Up from slavery

1986
Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Emma

2003
Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange her life and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.

The Penguin book of Japanese verse

2009
A collection of Japanese poetry selected from the third century to the present.

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