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Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.

Presents more than fifty works of poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, three of his prose works, and twenty-two essays by such critics as Harold Bloom, Earl R.

Presents the 1848 treatise on the economic, political, and social conditions of the working class, which served as the platform of the Communist League; and includes an essay on the manifesto from the perspective of 150 years of history.

Presents an annotated edition of the novel about Dorian Gray, a handsome youth who is corrupted into a life of terrible evil by Lord Henry Wotton; and includes backgrounds, reviews and reactions, and a selection of critical essays.

Contains the text of the novel that describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a young immigrant struggling in America and also includes selected readings that examine its historical importance and literary qualities as well contemporary reviews and critical commentaries on the work.

Presents five major Henrik Ibsen plays along with twenty-seven related documents, primarily correspondence, and nineteen works of criticism by such figures as Henry James and W.

Presents an authoritative text of "Little Women, " a novel which chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England, and includes background and contexts materials, a selection of critical reviews, a chronology of the author's life, and a bibliography.

Tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a wife and mother living in Victorian-era New Orleans.

Provides a selection of the poet's works with annotations providing background information to make the poems easier to understand, and offers critical material from many of Browning's contemporaries.

Contains the text of the novel, letters about the composition and publication of the novel, and critical essays.

Presents John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost," in which Satan attempts to exact revenge on God after being cast out of Heaven, and includes explanatory notes; source texts such as Bible selections and prose works by Milton; and forty-eight works of criticism by such figures as John Dryden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, T.