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Descartes' Discourse marks a watershed in European thought; in it, the author sets out in brief his radical new philosophy, which begins with a p...

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.'Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental...

In A Sicilian Romance (1790) Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make h...

This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolution...

Frederick Ahl's new translation captures the excitement, poetic energy, and intellectual force of the original in a way that has never been done ...

Resisting the traditional model of nineteenth-century fiction, Joris-Karl Huysman produced in 1884 a novel unlike any other of his time. Against ...

Anne Brontë's first novel, Agnes Grey, combines an astute dissection of middle-class social behavior and class attitudes with a wonderful study o...

This set provides a definitive scholarly variorum edition of Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population. The edition is based on the...

Although utterly convinced of the truth of Christianity, Anselm of Canterbury struggled to make sense of his religion. He considered the doctrine...

Now available in beautiful World's Classics editions—with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices—The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and au...

This volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity...

With its witty heroine Rosalind, who has the longest role of Shakespeare's female characters, As You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted ...

Aurora Leigh, a novel in verse, is Elizabeth Barrett Browning¹s tour de force. It describes, with vigor and brilliance, Aurora¹s successful rebe...

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian c...

Sallust was one of the first classical historians to move beyond a dry recitation of fact to paint sharp-edged portraits of the moral and politic...

M. R. James's classic ghost stories are some of the finest in English, creating menace and terror in lonely country houses and remote inns. This ...

In these letters to his friends and relations, Pliny the Younger, lawyer, author, and natural philosopher, provides a fascinating insight into Ro...

Perhaps the most brilliant political play ever written, Coriolanus is a gripping psychological study of the relationship between personality and ...

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac's last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, i...

Longus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Around their predicam...

These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato's remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events...

Alain de Botton's bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy—later made into a six-part TV series—has helped popularize ancient philosophy and es...

Revolutionary in its own time and controversial to this day, this work is a permanent classic of political theory and a key source of democratic ...