This 1892 play is set in 1820 in Tunbridge Wells, all the action occurring over
the span of just ten hours. The prologue by Henley reads (in part) A sketch, a shadow, of one brave old time; a hint of ...
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series,
which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. ...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Emperor
Napoleon fondly said of Etienne Gerard that if he has the thickest head he has also the stoutest heart in my army. This description accurately ...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Saki was
called the Oscar Wilde of his day, and hailed as a master stylist. Using witty dialogue and macabre humor, he writes of mischievous young men, ...
After his post office job and a failed run for Parliament, Trollope set up shop
as a magazine editor. These stories of the publishing trade, gathered in 1870, reveal his bawdy side: “The Turkish Bath,” “Mary Gresley,” “Josephine de Montmorenci,” ...
A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir.A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in
a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job ...
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on September 1, 1875, into a well-to-do family, Edgar Rice Burroughs was given
an aristocratic private education. But though he tried his hand at several business ventures, he was drawn more to an itinerant life of adventure than ...
Lucretius' dazzling poetic work, On the Nature of Things, composed during the late Roman Republic,
has captivated imaginations for twenty-one centuries. This epic promises to lift the reader above common fears, ambitions, and misery; as well as the terror of ...