'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities portrays a world on fire, split between Paris and London during the brutal and bloody events of the French Revolution. After eighteen years as a ...

Presents the classical epic of the Napoleonic Wars and their effects on four Russian families

A band of titled Englishmen, led by the Scarlet Pimpernel, assists condemned aristocrats in their escape to England during the Reign of Terror.

Set in the year 1482, this novel relates the tragic life of the deformed Quasimodo and his hopeless love for the gypsy dancer Esmerelda.

Presents the tale of Natty Bumppo, a frontier scout, and a Mohican warrior who escort two sisters through the wilderness to Fort William Henry during the French and Indian War.

The classic drama of the assassination of Julius Caesar, with notes and commentaries.

An only survivor of the ambitious Boleyn family, lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn testifies against Henry VIII's latest queen, Anne of Cleeves, and conspires to place her young cousin, Catherine Howard, on the throne. By the author of The Other Boleyn ...

Final play in Shakespeare’s masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Richard is a stunning archvillain who schemes, seduces, betrays and murders his way to the throne, yet is capable of eliciting ...

A feat of gripping storytelling--the first American work of fiction to become an international bestseller--no other book so effectively expressed the moral case against the "peculiar institution" of slavery. This edition features a new ...