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"Flaubert's tragic novel stands as a brilliant portrayal of infidelity, an incisive psychological portrait of a woman town between duty and desire.

Huck, escaping from his cruel father, meets Jim, a runaway slave, and together they embark on a grand adventure down the Mississippi River on a raft.

Presents the text to George Bernard Shaw's classic play "Pygmalion" about a professor of languages who sets out to transform a Cockney girl into a sophisticated lady, and contains explanatory and textual notes, chronology and background information on the author, and a critical analysis of Shaw's work.

Presents the eighteenth-century social satire of a gentle and kind man who is thrashed by fate and his fellow man yet continues to believe that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds.

Four major plays by the first modern playwright, Norwegian dramatist Ibsen, which use psychological insights to blast contemporary Victorian proprieties and the bourgeoisie.

Silas Marner is a grumpy weaver who is obsessed with making a lot of money.

Presents Mark Twain's classic novel set in the antebellum South about two infant boys, one the light-skinned son of a female slave and the other the son of her master, who are switched at birth, and contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, and critical analysis.

Contains three plays by nineteenth-century Irish author Oscar Wilde, featuring the title work, a comedy of mixed identity about a man who, as a child, was absentmindedly placed in a handbag and left at the railroad station; and including "Lady Windermere's Fan," and "Salome.

Ostracized by their peers at Box Canyon Boys Camp in Arizona, six teenage boys from dysfunctional homes band together to free a herd of buffalo to be used as game in a state-sanctioned guided hunt.

Presents the classic play about an unattractive swordsman who falls in love with a beautiful woman but courts her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor; and contains a timeline of significant events, outline of themes and plots, explanatory notes, and critical analysis.

Presents two novels by Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness", in which Marlow experiences the depths of moral depravity as he travels through a dangerous jungle, and "The Secret Sharer", which recounts a young sea captain's first command through the Gulf of Siam, where he must face the demons of his unconscious mind.

Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.

"In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair.

Presents Kate Chopin's 1899 novel about a Victorian wife and mother who is awakened to her desire for love and freedom when she becomes enamored with a young man she meets while on vacation; and includes a selection of Chopin's short stories, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and other study aids.

Presents a collection of five Dialogues by ancient Greek Philosopher, Plato; and contains background information, critical analysis, and contemporary and modern perspectives on Plato's work.