Classic Literature


Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
1984
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Animal Farm
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Of Mice and Men
Sense and Sensibility
Crime and Punishment
The Catcher in the Rye
Emma

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E.A. Bucchianeri
Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and became the undisputed authority on the subject of Faust in the eyes of the new Romantic generation. To deviate from his path would be nothing short of bl ...more
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 2

Virgil
So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart, He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly Contained his anguish. […] Aeneas, more than any, secretly Mourned for them all
Virgil, The Aeneid

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