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Dive into the world of "Classical Literature Reimagined, " where the enduring narratives of the past are infused with the vibrant pulse of contemporary life. This innovative collection bridges the ages, offering fresh takes on the masterpieces that have shaped literary tradition. From the epic journeys of Odysseus to the sharp wit of Elizabeth Bennet, the characters and themes that have stood the test of time are re-envisioned for a modern aud...

Saki's "Tobermory" tells the tale of a talking cat who's conversation turns toward the scandalous remarks he's overheard. Additional selections include Hardy's "The Fiddler of the Reels, " Dickens' "The Haunted Hotel, " Trollope, "The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne, " Lawrence, "The Prussian Officer, " Kipling, "The Phantom Rickshaw, " Wells, "Under the Knife, " and others.

Twelve of the finest tales by great French writers - from Voltaire to Renard. Includes "The Necklace" by Maupassant, "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler" (Flaubert), "The Unknown Masterpiece" (Balzac), "The Attack on the Mill" (Zola), "The Return of the Prodigal Son" (Gide), plus works by Mérimée, Daudet, Gerard de Nerval, and 4 others.

A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.

Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti crowns this outstanding collection: highlights include "The Blessed Damozel, " "My Sister's Sleep, " and selections from "The House of Life." Also includes Christina Rossetti's "Remember, " "Cousin Kate, " and "Song, " plus Swinburne, and more

Featuring 19 of the finest works in the American short-story tradition, this compilation includes: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe, "Bartleby" by Herman Melville, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, plus stories by Hawthorne, Twain, Cather, and others.

This memorable collection, designed to offer comfort and inspiration to the bereaved, contains about 90 poems including the 23rd Psalm, "Death Be Not Proud, " "Crossing the Bar, " "Because I Could Not Stop for Death, " "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, " plus works by Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Whitman, Swinburne, Kipling, Frost, and Auden.

Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Masterpieces by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Blake, Swinburne, Yeats, Frost, Poe, many more.

Over 170 beloved poems by the major poets of the 19th century, including works by Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rossetti, Meredith, Swinburne, Hopkins, Kipling, and others. An introduction and biographical notes on the poets are included.

Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud, " "The Tyger, " "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, " plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others.

This outstanding collection of more than 30 brilliant short stories -- each just six or fewer pages in length -- includes such popular tales as Kafka's "A Country Doctor, " Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado, " Chopin's "A Pair of Silk Stockings, " plus works by Dickens, O. Henry, Chekhov, Wilde, and many others.

This collection of beloved American poems ranges from the earliest examples of the genre by Anne Bradstreet and Phillis Wheatley to the 20th-century verse of Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. Selections include famous poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, and many others.

Twelve powerful works of fiction, including Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades, " Gogol's "The Overcoat, " Turgenev's "The District Doctor, " Dostoyevsky's "White Nights, " Tolstoy's "How Much Land Does a Man Need?, " plus "The Clothes Mender" by Leskov, "The Lady with the Toy Dog" by Chekhov, "Twenty-Six Men and a Girl" by Gorky, "Lazarus" by Andreyev, and more

Dramatic and conversational in rhythm and tone and rich in striking, unusual imagery, metaphysical poetry is represented in this anthology by such masterpieces as "Death, Be Not Proud, " by John Donne, Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress, " as well as works by George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, Thomas Traherne, and others.