Classic World Literature eBooks
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in six volumes. V. IV (1802)
Classic World Literature, by Edmund SpenserFrom the text of J. Upton. With a preface biographical and critical by J. Aikin, M. D.The Original Books Collection. Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty andElizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one...
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in six volumes. V. V (1802)
Classic World Literature, by Edmund SpenserFrom the text of J. Upton. With a preface biographical and critical by J. Aikin, M. D.The Original Books Collection. Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty andElizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one...
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser in six volumes. V. VI (1802)
Classic World Literature, by Edmund SpenserFrom the text of J. Upton. With a preface biographical and critical by J. Aikin, M. D.The Original Books Collection. Edmund Spenser (c. 1552 – 13 January 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty andElizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one...
The Possessed (The Devils)
Classic World Literature, by Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoyevskyThe Possessed (In Russian: Бесы, tr. Besy), also translated as The Devils or Demons, is an 1872 novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For an explanation of the marked difference in the English-language title, please see the section "Note on the title" below. An extremely political book, The Possessed is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th century. As the revolutionary democrats...
The Post Office
Classic World Literature, by Rabindranath TagoreTHE ORIGINAL BOOKS COLLECTION. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly...
The Rainbow
Classic World Literature, by David Herbert LawrenceThe Rainbow is a 1915 novel by British author D. H. Lawrence. It follows three generations of the Brangwen family, particularly focusing on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Lawrence's frank treatment of sexual desire and the power plays within relationships as a natural and even spiritual force of life, though perhaps tame by modern standards, caused The Rainbow to...
The Raven
Classic World Literature, by Edgar Allan Poe"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its musicality, stylized language and supernatural atmosphere, it tells of the mysterious visit of a talking raven to a distraught lover, tracing his slow descent into madness.
The Rescue
Classic World Literature, by Joseph ConradThe Rescue is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1920 but begun in the 1890s and set aside by Conrad to write The Nigger of the Narcissus. The novel concluded what is sometimes referred to as "The Lingard Trilogy", a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer, Vidar. Although it is the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Classic World Literature, by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 13 Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1903-1904, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The book was first published on March 7, 1905 by Georges Newnes, Ltd and in a Colonial edition by Longmans. 30,000 copies were made of the initial print run. The US edition by McClure, Phillips & Co. added another 28,000 to the run. This was the first Holmes...
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