CLASSIC LITERARY WORKS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
Ancient fiction, ancient wisdom, and classics from more recent eras, all these titles are timeless and essential to any library. We’ve placed them in thematic collections for you, so you can just sit back and read. Enjoy!
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War, Peace, Rule: Wisdom of the Ages.
Whether it is waging war, building peace, or the politics in between these writers present some of the world's most timeless wisdom from Chinese warriors, Roman emperors, political advisors, philosophers, religious teachers, and American founding fathers. In this collection you will find the following:
The Art of War – Sun Tzu
The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
Against War – Desiderius Erasmus
The Imitation of Christ – Thomas à Kempis
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
Principles of Morals – Immanuel Kant
The Jefferson Bible – Thomas Jefferson
James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway.
The dislocation and disillusionment that came with the opening of the twentieth century, the scars of the “Great War,” the break down of traditional religion, the anonymity and isolation of growing urban landscapes, left its mark on prominent writers of the time. In this collection we see James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Ernest Hemingway begin to reexamine the traditional mores, motifs, and morals that had guided society up until then: Catholicism, sexism, and machismo culture. The flaws of these institutions and paradigms would begin to become all the more apparent in the coming century and while even today we still work to dismantle their most toxic legacies, these writers were some of the first to challenge them—even if it came at great price to all of their mental and emotional health.
Gothic Masters
Four masters of the Gothic short story in one elegant, comprehensive volume. This treasure trove of well-known and obscure gems is sure to resonate today with old favorites and new discoveries. Mortality, loss, and pain are specters which haunt these timeless stories. The supernatural stalks in shadows, pushing characters and readers to towards the edge of our understanding of psychology, metaphysics, and morality. These masterpieces provide shivers of terror, the frisson of fascination with the occult, and a strange comfort in the universality of fear regarding the unknown, mortality, and our own depths of human darkness. Here is an updated version of these stories formatted for all e-readers. Light a candle, grab a blanket, pour a cognac and delve into the work of some of the most enigmatic and ingenious writers of American gothic literature.
Short Story Masters.
A complete collection of the works from four undisputed masters of the short story: Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, O. Henry, and Leo Tolstoy.
Best of Satan, Sin, & the Underworld.
For millennia the Devil has captivated writers, artists, and their audiences. Whether in the form of a crafty trickster, tragic antihero, or malevolent deity, the Devil entrances, excites, and repels us at once. Here in this definitive collection find famous takes on Satan himself from the epic verses of Dante Alighieri, John Milton, or George Meredith, the plays of Christopher Marlowe and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, to the folktales of William Butler Yeats, Charles Baudelaire, Anton Chekhov, and Washington Irving. Includes the The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake's tortured reflections on lust, humanism, and temptation as well as short stories by Francis Oscar Mann, Niccolo Machiavelli, Wilhelm Hauf, Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol, William Makepeace Thackeray, Fernan Caballero, Alphonse Daude, Frederick Beecher Perkins, Charles Deulin, Guy de Maupassan, Richard Garnett, Anatole France, Maxim Gorky, John Masefield.
A lifetime’s worth of poetry.
Enjoy the timeless poetry of some of the seminal poets of western literature. Included in this expansive collection:
William Blake, Robert Burns, Charles Baudelaire, Samuel T. Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Walt Whitman.
Epics that Define Nations.
The most important epics that would come to define entire nations all in one volume:
The Iliad & The Odyssey; The Aeneid; Beowulf; Don Quixote; and The Song of Roland.
Excerpts from The Ramayana; The Kavevala; The Nibelungen Lied; The Shah Nameh; Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy; The Poem of the Cid; The Orlando Furioso; The Lusiad; Jerusalem Delivered; and John Milton's Paradise Lost & Paradise Regained.
This version of Don Quixote also Includes the iconic illustrations by Gustave Dore.
Echoing through the ages, the poetry and stories of Ovid and Herodotus have left their fingerprints on the arts from painting and sculpture to pop culture. From some of the earliest oral traditions and the first written texts of the west, we can glimpse the ancient world from the peaks of the Alps, across the waters of the Mediterranean, through the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Persia, and up the winding course of the Nile past the tombs of pharaohs and into the highlands of the Kushite empire. These were the inspirations from which both the poet and the historian drew to weave a tapestry that would become the basis for history, the origin of fantasy, and the root of myth for millennia.
Before there was Wakanda. . .
There were these writers and their epic dreamscapes inspired by the African and African American experience.
The work of these three writers demonstrates that the themes and characteristics of Afrofuturism go back to the late 19th century. These works are haunting not just for their stories and themes but for how relevant they remain today.
W.E.B. DuBois: The Comet
Charles Chesnutt: The Conjure Woman
Pauline Hopkins: Of One Blood (The Hidden Self)
What is new is old.
Thought post apocalyptic tales and dystopias were a thing of modern science fiction? Turns out writers have been exploring these brooding scenarios for centuries, even some of the most well known ones. Rediscover their forward seeing masterpieces.