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With his wedding a week away, Claudio can't wait to marry the beautiful young Hero.

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's comedies. Bassanio, a penniless Venetian noble asks his friend to borrow money to impress a heiress named Portia.

"Orson Welles' dark and moody screen version of the classic William Shakespeare tragedy about a presumptuous Scottish prince's quest for power through patricide - in keeping with both the play's spirit and Welles' vision.

"W. Somerset Maugham's semiautobiographical [work] unfolds in London and Paris at the end of the 19th century.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

Presents the 1818 text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator; and includes explanatory annotations, a selection of related writings, and a collection of critical essays.

"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

A charming, young English woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her own conflicting desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable and is forced to choose between convention and passion.

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.

"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.