Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years imprisoned in grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape, but also to unearth treasure and use it to plot destruction of men responsive for his incarceration.

Discusses the theatrical context of William Shakespeare's classic play, "The Taming of the Shrew," and includes introduction to the play, textual notes, and an essay on the theatrical world of the author.

An annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy in which young lovers enter a world of sprites and fairies, and an amateur play production entertains all; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.

A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth-century masterpiece The Canterbury Tales is such a rollicking good read that you'll forget many critics and scholars also regard it as one of the most important literary works in English. A group of pilgrims are traveling together to visit a holy shrine at the Canterbury Cathedral. Along the way, they decide to hold a storytelling contest to pass the time, with the winner to be awarded a lavish feast on the

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An annotated edition of Shakespeare's comedy about young lovers, throne usurpers, and banishment in the Forest of Arden; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.

Every summer, the Ramsays visit their summer home on the beautiful Isle of Skye, surrounded by the excitement and chatter of family and friends, mirroring Virginia Woolf's own joyful holidays of her youth. But, as time passes, and in its wake the First World War, the transience of life becomes ever more, apparent through the vignette of the thoughts and observations of the novel's disparate cast. A landmark of high modernism and the most autobiographical...

In 1867, when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published the first American edition of The Inferno, Dante was almost unknown in this country. The New England poet and educator, who taught Italian literature at Harvard, introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World with this vibrant blank verse translation of the first and most popular book of the three-part Divine Comedy. Expressed in haunting poetry of great emotional power, The Inferno chronicles...

King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.

Winston Smith es empleado del Ministerio de la Verdad. Su tarea es la de reescribir los archivos del pasado para que coincidan con la versión dictada por el gobierno actual. Esa versión es una verdad impuesta por el Gran Hermano, que controla y vigila constantemente a cada uno de los habitantes; empobreciendo sus pensamientos, lavándoles el cerebro, incitándolos a denunciar todo y creando miedo permanente. A Winston, atrapado en esa asfixiante...