Siddhartha undergoes a series of experiences in ancient India on a quest for the ultimate answer to the enigma of humanity's role in the world, and emerges in a state of peace and wisdom.
An annotated selection from Geoffrey Chaucer's medieval classic, "The Canterbury Tales," a series of stories narrated by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-foot monster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves after the creature is rejected by society.
Presents Stephen Crane's classic novel about Henry Flemming, a young Civil War Union soldier who experiences his first battle and then has to come to terms with his own fears and feelings of cowardice.
Contains George Bernard Shaw's play in which Henry Higgins attempts to turn Eliza Doolittle, a poor, young beggar, into a lady of society by teaching her proper language skills and better manners.
Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love.
essential essays of Emerson & Thoreau : including Self-reliance & Civil disobedience
2013
An anthology beginning with essays from Emerson's "Self-reliance," and containing his "Friendship" and Thoreau's "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience." Includes a glossary and notes.
