Dramatic artist, natural scientist and philosopher, Plutarch is widely regarded as the most significant historian of his era, writing sharp and succinct accounts of the greatest politicians and statesman of the classical period. Taken from The Lives, a series of biographies...

The best translation of Faust available, this volume provides the original German text and its English counterpart on facing pages. Walter Kaufmann’s translation conveys the poetic beauty and rhythm as well as the complex depth of Goethe’s language. Includes Part...

Generations of readers have thrilled to traditional tales recounted by folklorist Andrew Lang. Starting with his 1889 publication of The Blue Fairy Book and continuing through a rainbow-hued spectrum of other titles, Lang's stories continue to enchant audiences of all...

"[Here is] the Genesis for our generation and beyond."―Robert Fagles   Genesis begins with the making of heaven and earth and all life, and ends with the image of a mummy—Joseph's—in a coffin. In between come many of the primal stories in...

Purchase the entire Great Books 101: Ancient to Medieval collection and save! This bundle includes: Genesis The David Story Sophocles, The Complete Plays The Odyssey The Iliad The Aeneid Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Saint Augustine's Confessions Dante's Inferno...

Purchase the entire Great Books 102: Renaissance to Modern collection and save! This bundle includes: Pride and Prejudice The Fall Don Quixote Notes from Underground Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot Goethe's Faust Paradise Lost Hamlet The Tempest The Adventures of Huckleberry...

This expanded edition of James Ellington’s preeminent translation includes Ellington’s new translation of Kant’s essay “Of a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns” in which Kant replies to one of the standard objections to his moral theory as...

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn “BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20thCENTURY”—Time An undisputed masterpiece of world literature, The Gulag Archipelago renders the four decades of terror and oppression into human terms. Drawing on his own experience before, during...

Hamlet is Shakespeare’s most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a “revenge tragedy,” in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father’s murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however,...

This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent stories. Enjoy the tale of Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New Clothes, the story of a...

Poetry Translation by Anthony Esolen Illustrations by Gustave Doré Of the great poets, Dante is one of the most elusive and therefore one of the most difficult to adequately render into English verse. In the Inferno, Dante not only judges sin...

A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home. For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative,...

Available from HarperOne, now the exclusive publisher of all of C. S. Lewis’s adult religious books, a repackaged edition of the revered author's fictitious collection of letters in which he ruminates on the nature of prayer—what it is, how it...

Purchase the Marxism, Socialism, and Communism course books as a bundle and save! This book bundle includes: Stalin's War The Gulag Archipelago Abridged The Marx-Engels Reader The Russian Revolution War on the American Republic This collection contains paperback and hardback books and...

In the classic Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis explores the common ground upon which all of those of Christian faith stand together. Bringing together Lewis’ legendary broadcast talks during World War II from his three previous books The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior,...

New Atlantis is an incomplete utopian novel by Sir Francis Bacon, published posthumously in 1626. It appeared unheralded and tucked into the back of a longer work of natural history, Sylva sylvarum (forest of materials). In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed...

Focus Philosophical Library's edition of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is a lucid and useful translation of one of Aristotle's major works for the student of undergraduate philosophy, as well as for the general reader interested in the major works of western...

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Austen's "Gothic parody." Decrepit castles, locked rooms, mysterious chests, cryptic notes, and tyrannical fathers give the story an uncanny air, but one with a decidedly satirical twist....