The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri is called poetic masterpiece. The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the...

This volume brings together Gogol's Petersburg Tales with his two most famous plays, all of which guide us through the streets of St. Petersburg, the city erected by force and ingenuity on the...

E.M. Forster's beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch...

'I resolved to write a book which would create some stir in the world and continue to do after I had gone from it.' - Choderlos de Laclos A great sensation at the time of first publication, Les...

An established bestseller, The Articulate Mammal is a concise and highly readable introduction to the main topics in psycholinguistics. This fifth edition brings the book up-to-date with recent...

The folktales of Irish history, faith, mystery and magic as well as the traditional "Fireside Tales" Features saints, fairies, ghosts, animals, elves and witches.

From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers,...

This addition to the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library completes Roger Abrahams's masterful survey of taletelling in the black world by showing the vital forms African stories took as they...

‘I saw a monster rising from the waves.' Charles Arrowby has determined to spend the rest of his days in hermit-like contemplation. He buys a mysteriously damp house on the coast, far from the...

Iris Murdoch's first novel is set in a part of London where struggling writers rub shoulders with successful bookies, and film starlets with frantic philosophers. Its hero, Jake Donaghue, is a...

The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed when a young woman, Rain Carter, arrives at the school to paint the portrait of the headmaster. Mor, hoping to enter politics,...

The first authoritative editions--based on the acclaimed Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley novels The third novel in the Waverley series, and Scott's personal favorite, The Antiquary centers on...