Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nathan Haskell Dole

One of the world's first best-sellers, this tragic masterpiece attained an instant and lasting success upon its 1774 publication. A sensitive exploration of the mind of a young artist, the tale addresses age-old questions — the meaning of love, of death, and the possibility of redemption — in the form of Werther's alternately joyful and despairing letters about his unrequited love. Goethe's portrayal of a character who struggles to reconcile his artistic sensibilities with the demands of the objective world proved tremendously influential to subsequent writers and continues to speak to modern readers.

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Leo Tolstoy

The premiere example of nineteenth-century realism stands today as a masterful examination of hypocrisy, jealousy, faith, fidelity, marriage and progress. This tragic story centers on a young, married aristocratic woman who embarks on an affair to escape an unhappy marriage. Along the way, a large cast of characters explore and debate the social mores of pre-Revolutionary Russia. Each of the novel?s eight sections contains variations in tone and style, including stream-of-consciousness passages that prefigure the modernist writers of the 20th century. William Faulkner thought that "Anna Kar?nina" was the best novel ever written, and the book has inspired countless writers and innovators from Joyce to Woolf to Nabokov.

Anna Kar?nina

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The Hawthorn Tree - Scholar's Choice Edition

Frank R. Stockton

Julian Hawthorne

Caroline Ticknor

Harry Thurston Peck

History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, and Rare and Little-known Literature from the Archives of the Great Libraries of the World

The International Library of Masterpieces Literature Art and Rare Manuscripts

Not Angels Quite

Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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The Compete Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi

The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi, Volume 14

Leo Tolstoy (Graf)

War and Peace

The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi

The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoi, Volume 24

George Jotham Hagar

William A. Colledge

The New Standard Encyclopedia

Giovanni Verga

Sicilian Stories from the Italian of Giovanni Verga

Under the Shadow of Etna

And Other Poems

The Hawthorn Tree

Edgar Allan Poe

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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe; Volume 1

Chauncey Mitchell Depew

Thomas Charles Quinn

With Critical Studies of the World's Great Orators by Eminent Essayists

The Library of Oratory, Ancient and Modern

Benjamin R. Tucker

"The death of Ivan Ilyich" revolves around a man in his 40s who has spent his life climbing the social ladder in Russia. Barely tolerant of his wife and generally indifferent to the other people around him, Ivan has a minor accident hanging curtains in a new apartment. As his life slowly and painfully spirals toward death, Ivan struggles immensely against what he perceives as an unfair fate. Only in the end does he see how he might have lived differently and authentically. In the other stories, loss and death are deeply explored.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

The Romance of an Arctic Coal-Mine, With an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora and Fauna of Spitsbergen; Volume 2

America in Spitsbergen

The Kingdom of God Is Within You. What Is Art?

A detailed history of the Arctic Coal Co. mine at Longyear City in Adveat Bay, 1905-16 with an introductory section containing useful information about west Spitsbergen. (AB 4042).

The Romance of an Arctic Coal-mine, with an Introduction Relating the History and Describing the Land and the Flora and Fauna of Spitsbergen

Robert Burns

With Biographical Sketch and Notes

Selected Poems of Robert Burns

Nathan Haskell Dole

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