Turgenev focuses on Bazarov, the nihilistic hero and the first in a long literary line of angry young men, whose life in turn illuminates the social, political and philosophical issues current in contemporary Russian society.

Polidori's tale of 'The Vampyre' introduced the vampire into British fiction. It is presented here with 13 other tales of the macabre first published between 1819 and 1838 by authors including Edward Bulwer, Letitia Landon and William Carleton.

In Basil's secret and unconsummated marriage to the linen-draper's sexually precocious daughter, and the shocking betrayal, insanity, and death that follow, Collins reveals the bustling, commercial London of the 19th century wreaking its vengeance on a still powerful aristocratic world.

This selection represents the full range of Blake's accomplishment as a poet, ranging from early Poetical Sketches to late lyrics and including such major works as The Book of Thel, Songs of Innocence, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Songs of Experience.

In the border country of South Utah, a man is about to be whipped by the Mormons in order to pressure Jane Withersteen into marrying against her will. The punishment is halted by the arrival of the hero, Lassiter, who routs the persecutors and then recounts his own history of a search for a woman abducted long ago by the Mormons.

David Luke's translation has all the virtues of previous classic translations of Faust, and none of their shortcomings. Cast in rhymed verse, it preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without sacrifice to archaism or over-modern idiom. It is as near an 'equivalent' rendering of the German as has been achieved.

Kim (1901) is one of Kipling's masterpieces. Through the story of the young orphan Kimball O'Hara, and his vocation in the Secret Service, Kipling presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road.

Including resource notes, this edition has the complete text, with glossary, of Ibsen's A Doll's House. Written in the 19th century, the play provides a classic view of the status of women in European society