A Treasury of Irish Literature celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Ireland with a
generous selection of poetry and prose that spans two centuries. Ireland's celebrated poetic legacy is represented by more than 200 poems from twenty-five of the ...
Aesop's Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have ...
First collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as stories that the beautiful Scheherazade
tells her husband, King Shahryar, over 1001 consecutive nights. They include some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling: "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," ...
Acting on behalf of his firm of solicitors, Jonathan Harker travels to the Carpathian Mountains to
finalize the sale of England's Carfax Abbey to Transylvanian noble Count Dracula. Little does he realize that, in doing so, he endangers all that he ...
In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that
fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the ...
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through
Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ...
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their
young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine's hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff's emotions know no bounds and ...
Classic Ghost Stories is a treasure trove of tales of ghosts and hauntings with 36
stories published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's distinguished lineup of writers includes Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, William ...