The World's great classics

1. The American/by Henry James : with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 2. The idiot/by Fyodor Dostoyevsky : translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Janko Lavrin -- 3. Politics - poetics/by Aristotle : translated by Jowett and Homas Twining : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by John Rowe Workman-- 4. The Pilgrim's progress/by John Bunyan : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ola Elizabeth Winslow, author of John Bunyan -- 5. Pensees/by Blaise Pascal : translated from the French by Isaac Taylor: with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Alfred Stern-- 6. Pere Goriot/by Honore de Balzac : translated from the French by Ellen marriage; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Jean-Albert Bede -- 7. The way of all flesh/by Samuel Butler : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Georgia Lunbar -- 8. The renaissance man: Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince : translated from the Italian by Ninian Hill Thomson ; The Courtier/by Baldssare Castiglione : translated from the Italian by Thomas Hoby; with an introduction by Dr. Daniel Fader -- 9. The ground on which we stand: Basic documents of American history : selected and with an introduction by Lillian W. Kay -- 10. Paradise lost - paradise regained/by John Milton : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by James H. Hanford, author of John Milton, Englishman -- 11. The Odyssey/by Homer : done into English prose by S. H. Butcher and Andrew Lang with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Herbert J. Rose and St. Leonard, St. Andrew --12. Moby Dick/by Herman Melville : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Tyrus Hillway -- 13. Essays/by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne : with an introduction by Floyd Zulli -- The complete hisotries poems/by William Shakespeare : edited by George Lyman Kittredge with an introduction by Michael Benthalll and a biography of the author by Edwin E. -- 14. The complete historians poems/by William Shakespeare : edited by George Lyman Kittredge with an introduction by Michael Benthall and a biography of the author by Edwin E. Willoughby -- 15. The house of the seven gables/by Nathaniel Hawthorne : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Norman Holmes Pearson -- 16. Walden, or life in the woods/by Henry David Thoreau : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by John Ashworth -- 17. Selected short stories/by Guy de Maupassant : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Jean-Albert Bede -- 18. The age of fable/by Thomas Bulfinch : with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 19. Classical literature of Asia : edited with an introduction and commentaries by John D. Yohannan -- 20. The complete comedies/by William Shakespeare : edited by George Lyman Kittredge with an introduction by Michael Benthall and a biography of the author by Edwin E. Willoughby -- 21. Essays/by Ralph Waldo Emerson : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by F. B. Sanrorn -- 22. Lives of ten noble Greeks and Romans/by Plutarch : selected by Edmund Fuller; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by P. R. Coleman-Norton -- 23. The Iliad/by Homer : done into English prose by Andrew Lang : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Herbert J. Rose -- 24. Autobiography/by Bengamin Franklin -- 25. Gulliver's Travels/by Jonathan Swift : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by William T. Brewster -- 26. Pride and prejudice/by Jane Austen : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by John W. Loofbourow -- 27. Great poetry of the English language : Geoffrey Chaucer to Emily Dickinson : selected and with an introduction by Henry B. Weisberg -- 28. Ivangoe/by Sir Walter Scott : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by James C. Corson -- 29. Wuthering Heights/by Emily Bronte : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Inga-Stina Ewbank -- 30. Crime and punishment/by Fyodor Dostoyevsky : translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Janko Lankin -- 31. The history of the aventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend mr. Abraham Adams with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 32. A tale of two cities/ by Charles Dickens : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Arthur A. Adrian --33. Madame Bovary/by Gustave Flaubert : translated from the French by Eleanor Max-Aveling : with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 34. Autobiography/by Benvenuto Cellini : translated from the Italian by John Addington Sumonds -- 35. The republic/by Plato : translated by Bengamin Jowett with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Robert S. Brumbaugh -- 36. Jane Eyre/by Charlotte Bronte : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Inga-Stina Ewbank -- 37. Vanity fair-a novel without a hero/by William Makepeace Thackeray : with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 38. The complete tragedies/by William Shakespeare : edited by George Lyman Kitttredge with an introduction by Michael Benthall and a biography of the author by Edwin E. Willoughby -- 39. The moonstone/by Wilkie Collins : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Thomas J. Assad -- 40. The scarlet letter/by Nathaniel Hawthorne : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Norman Holmes Pearson -- 41. Anna Karenina/by Leo Tolstoy : translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Ernest L. Simmons -- 42. Boswell's life of Dr. Johnson for the modern reader : an abridgment by Herbert Askwith; with a critical and biographical profile of the James Boswell and a note on The Life of Samuel Johnson by Waldo H. Dunn -- 43. The divine comedy/by Dante Alighieri : translated by the reverend H. F. Cary with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Werner P. Frienerich -- 44. The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe/by Daniel Defoe : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by James Sutherland -- 45. The red badge of courage and other stories/by Stephen Crane : with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 46. Faust - the sorrows of young werther/by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : translated into English verse by JaMES Stuart Blackie; with a critical and biographical profile of the author -- 47. Selected stories and poems/by Edgar Allan Poe : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Joseph Wood Krutch -- 48. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn/by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) : with a critical and biographical profile of the author by James M. Cox. -- 49. An invitation to great reading/by Floyd Zulli -- 50. Don quixote of la mancha/by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra : translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux; with a critical and biographical profile of the author by Donald W. Bleznick.