Reprints five short stories by nineteenth-century Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, including the title work in which a government clerk chronicles in his diary his growing love for his superior's daughter, as well as his slip into insanity.
Mark Twain's classic 1869 chronicle of his travels with a group of fellow "pilgrims" through Europe and the Holy Land, in which he makes fun of both European snobbery and American coarseness. Includes explanatory notes.
Reissue of Edmonds's translation of the nineteenth-century epic novel "War and Peace," which provides a chronicle of Russian family life during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
Prince Myshkin finds himself at the center of a violent love triangle in which a notorious woman and a beautiful young girl become rivals for his affections, setting the stage for extortion, scandal, and murder.
Raskolnikov, a former Russian student, murders an old pawnbroker and her sister. The guilt which enfolds him and with which he struggles result in a tragedy of tension and terror.
In rural Louisiana after Reconstruction, Therese Lafirme, a thirty-year-old widow, falls in love with David Hosmer, but rejects his marriage proposal because of her religious opposition to divorce.
A selection of poems by nineteenth-century English poet Robert Browning, drawn from collections published between 1842 and 1864, as well as the works of his later years. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and indexes.
