Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte, "To... [More...]

This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six great Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods,... [More...]

compelling and influential documents: Monroe Doctrine, U.S. Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, and more.

This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters, in translations by top-flight scholars of the field. Haiku (distilled poems featuring 17 syllables) command enormous respect in Japan. Now readers of poetry in... [More...]

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers an impressive sampling of more than 150 succinct masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The... [More...]

A caroler's delight: complete lyrics for over 50 of the most popular and beloved Christmas songs: "Away in a Manger," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Joy to the World," "O Come, All Ye Faithful," "O Holy Night," "Silent Night," "The Twelve Days of... [More...]

Choice collection of 13 stories by Sara Orne Jewett, Kate Chopin, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton and many others.

Rich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In the Pink" by Sassoon, "In Flanders Fields" by Lieut. Col. McCrae, Thomas Hardy's "In Time of the Breaking of Nations," many more by Kipling, de... [More...]

Attractive and inexpensive, this carefully chosen collection offers unparalleled insight into the hearts and minds of African-Americans. It will be welcomed by students of the black experience in America and any lover of fine poetry.

Classic Greek tragedy concerns the catastrophe that ensues when the King of Thebes, Pentheus, imprisons Dionysus and attempts to suppress his cult. Full of striking scenes, frenzied emotion and choral songs of great power and beauty, the play is a fine... [More...]