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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile.

Marlow comes face to face with the corruption and despair that lies at the heart of human existence when he undertakes a journey on behalf of a Belgian trading company up the Congo River in search of the tormented white ivory trader, Kurtz.

Contains the edited text of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself," based upon the first edition of the long poem which appeared in the collection "Leaves of Grass" in 1855.

Presents a detailed chronology of the life and career of author Edith Wharton, along with the text of her classic novel "The House of Mirth," introduction, and textual notes.

A collection of supernatural fiction featuring ghostly characters, forbidding landscapes, and occult occurrences written by such authors as Bram Stoker, J.

An autobiographical account by the runaway slave Frederick Douglass that chronicles his experiences with his owners and overseers, and discusses how slavery affected both slaves and slaveholders.

An annotated edition of "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

A collection of sayings by Chinese sage Confucius, compiled shortly after his death in 497 B.

Presents the eighteenth-century social satire of a gentle and kind man who is thrashed by fate and his fellow man yet continues to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds.

Presents the script of the sixteenth-century drama about scholar who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power, with an introduction to the play, its stage history, textual problems, and historical and cultural context.

This useful book, an extended study of the Poetics , treats such subjects as Aristotle's general aesthetic views; mimesis; pity, fear, and katharsis; recognition, reversal, and hamartia; tragic misfortune; the nontragic genres; and the historical influence of the work.

"Shipwrecked in the south Pacific Ocean, Englishman Edward Prendick awakens aboard a ship where a man named Montgomery and his beastly looking servant were transporting animal cargo.

Utopia is one of the most influential books in the western philosophical and literary tradition, and one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism.

Contains the translations of Plato's texts "Euthyphro," "Apology," "Crito," and the final scene of "Phaedo" focusing on the life and death of Socrates.

Translates Aristophanes' 411 B.C. play "Lysistrata, " in which an Athenian woman leads many fellow Greek wives in a sex strike until their husbands stop warring with each other; includes an introduction by the translator, explanatory notes, and a glossary.