Dover thrift editions

A farce telling the story of the Hardcastle family's mishaps and adventures in their undertaking to marry off a single daughter.

A. Square, a resident of Flatland--a place limited to two dimensions and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms--stirs up trouble when he is visited by a sphere and begins to speak openly about worlds with three and four dimensions.

Presents an English translation of the 1885-86 work in which German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche considers how cultures lose their creative drive and become decadent.

Presents an unabridged edition of the 1922 drama about a young woman who comes to live with her seafaring father after a separation of many years and falls in love with a handsome sailor who does not meet with her parent's approval, forcing her to reveal the dark secret of her past.

Presents English playwright John Webster's early-seventeenth-century drama about the tragic marriage between the widowed Duchess of Malfi and her majordomo Antonio Bologna.

Translates Sophocles' tragedy in which Electra, daughter of Greek warrior Agamemnon and his murderous wife Clytemnestra, yearns for her brother Orestes to avenge their father's death by killing their mother.

An English verse translation of the sacred poem, part of the Hindu epic "Mahabharata, " documents a dialogue between young warrior Arjuna and Krishna, believed to be an incarnation of God, on the eve of a battle in which Arjuna must face an army composed of close relatives and other loved ones.

A collection of five short stories of crime and the macabre by nineteenth-century American author, Edgar Allan Poe.