This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty 2. Christina Rossetti - I Loved You First: But Afterwards Your Love 3. Walt Whitman - A Glimpse 4. W.Shakespeare - Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds 5. John Donne - The Good-Morrow 6. K.Gibran - Love One Another 7. Robert Browning - Meeting At Night 8. E.Dickinson - My River 9. P.B. Shelley - Love's Philosophy 10. Alfred Tennyson - Maud 11. E.A. Poe - Annabel Lee 12. J.Keats - Bright Star 13. Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress 14. E.A. Poe - ...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot sh...

"Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna" by Robert Burn serves as an essential guide for anyone interested in the rich history and archaeological wonders of ancient Rome. The book meticulously details the remnants of the city, providing insights into the architectural marvels and historical significance of various ruins. Burn's vivid descriptions and engaging narrative transport readers to the heart of Rome, allowing them to visualize the grandeur of the past while ...

In "Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna," Robert Burn intricately blends historical scholarship with vivid descriptive narrative to create a comprehensive guide to the ancient remnants of Rome and its surrounding countryside. Embracing the spirit of Romanticism, Burn employs a reflective tone that elevates the reader's experience beyond mere observation, allowing them to engage emotionally with the ruins' poignant histories. This handbook not only catalogues sign...

The language of Poetry is an art that most of us attempt at some point in our lives. Although its commonplace exposure has been somewhat marginalised in today’s often fast-paced lives we all recognise good verse that can empathise with our thoughts or open us up to experience new things in new ways, to better understand and to enjoy the many strands of our lives.But finding a starting point can be overwhelming, even off-putting, so in this series we offer up our Top 10 classic poet...

"A Day with the Poet Burns" is a captivating exploration of the life and works of Robert Burns, one of Scotland's most cherished poets. The book delves into the essence of Burns' poetry, highlighting his deep connection to the Scottish landscape and culture. Through vivid descriptions and insightful commentary, readers are invited to experience the world that inspired Burns, from the rolling hills of Ayrshire to the vibrant traditions of Scottish folk music. The narrative captures the spir...

This book is intended to serve as a handbook to the actually-existing ruins and monuments of ancient Rome and the Campagna. It is divided into topographical sections for the convenience of travellers visiting Rome, and the monuments which exist in each section have been briefly described, and a summary given of their history and archæological value. The introductory section contains general remarks upon the site, monumental history, and architecture of Rome; and in a section prefixed to Ch...

The Complete Harvard Anthology of the Greatest Works of World Literature gathers an extraordinary span of epic, drama, philosophy, essay, satire, fable, devotional writing, political reflection, and lyric poetry. Moving from classical antiquity through the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Victorian moral criticism, it presents world literature as a continuing conversation about virtue, power, imagination, faith, reason, liberty, and human suffering. Its range includes tragic dr...