He was one of the greatest playwrights and story writers ever. Anton Chekhov’s life was short, intense, and dominated by battles.

In this classic, the narrator tells of making the usual April pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine at Canterbury with thirty others.

The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If...

The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If...

The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau d'If...

Pendle was closely connected with Latin America for more than forty years.

Originally published as two sections, the first in 1853 consisting of nine lectures entitled Discourses on University Education, and a second volume entitled Lectures and Essays on University Subjects, published in 1858.

“Find me an obviously intelligent man, a man free from sentimentality and illusion, a man hard to deceive, a man of the first class, and I’ll show you a man with a wide streak of woman in him…"

Luigi Barzini studies the Italians’ habits, vices, virtues, hopes, failures, and achievements, past, present, and future.

This volume contains the greatest novella of a master writer who saw all of life and rejected none of it.

This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling’s early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist in India.

The “unsinkable” Titanic was four city blocks long, with the latest safety devices—but only twenty lifeboats for the 2,207 on board.

G.K. Chesterton was a journalist, playwright, poet, biographer, novelist, essayist, literary commentator, editor, orator, artist, and theologian.

The diary of Samuel Pepys is like no other book in the world. One reason is that its writer had no idea of making a book at all.

Flaubert’s richly detailed account of the historical struggle between Rome and Carthage.

Written at the start of the Great War, when his son Borys was at the Western Front, The Shadow-Line is Conrad's supreme effort to open man's eyes to....

John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, showing each of the title’s six armies in a battle sequence testing them to the utmost.

It is likely that Shakespeare wrote most of his sonnets before 1600. They are dedicated to Mr. W.H., the “only begetter” of the poems.

Over 1600 years ago, God raised up a man named Patrick to take the Gospel of Christ to the people of Ireland....

Even without his supremely logical brain child, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle shows that his tales are unsurpassed for thrills and excitement.