Artisan: 415 books

Among the most inventive of Ibsen's works and one of his most frequently performed plays, The Master Builder offers audiences a thought-provoking examination of an architect jealous of rivals and haunted by guilt. First performed in 1892, Ibsen’s psychological tapestry is one of the great...

“I mean to speak Of that interminable building reared By observation of affinities In objects where no brotherhood exists To common minds…” The Prelude, published a year after Wordsworth’s death in 1850, describes his experiences of growing up as a man and a poet, beginning with an...

Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of My Landlord is comprised of two of his classic novels: Old Mortality, and The Black Dwarf. Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits a classical hero against the forces of...

 O gluttony, the height of wickedness! O primal cause of mankind's utter fall! O first and original sin that damned us all       Christ redeemed us with his own dear blood! ... O stomach! O belly! O stinking bag of jelly, Filled...

"La libertad es el derecho de todo hombre a ser honesto, a pensar ya hablar sin hipocresía". Durante más de un siglo, el revolucionario y escritor cubano José Martí (1853-1895) ha sido visto como una figura fundamental, casi sagrada, en el panteón de la historia latinoamericana....

**VINCENT O’SULLIVAN (**1868–1940) was an American short story writer, poet and critic. In addition to a biography of Oscar Wilde, his works dealt with the morbid, the decadent, and the supernatural. His collection of supernatural fiction, When I Was Dead contains a same-named ghost story, and...

In Kate Chopin’s classic tale The Story of an Hour, Louise Mallard receives a terrible shock after hearing of the death of her husband, Brently in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems; therefore, her sister informs her of the horrific news in a gentle way. Mrs....

“How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace…” ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) the English poet is best known for her...

Aristophanes' The Birds is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. His trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal...

  Aristophanes' Lysistrata is the timeless comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by persuading the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace—a strategy that...

There are a lot of things about us women That sadden me, considering how men See us as rascals. —Lysistrata   As indeed we are! —Calonice     Aristophanes' Lysistrata is the timeless comic account of one woman's...

    The Duel by Anton Chekhov, is a classic exploration of the human mind told through the eyes of different people striving for the same thing: to forget the days they lost and make the best of the days they still have. Published in 1891, this morality tale pits...

Kenneth Grahame's exuberant yet whimsical The Wind in the Willows* belongs to the golden age of children's classic novels. One of the true classics of English literature, here are the wonderfully imagined Ratty, Mole, Badger and the conceited Toad of Toad Hall — whose passion for motorcars lands...

“At home there tarries like a lurking snake, Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled, A wily watcher, passionate to slake, In blood resentment for a murdered child…” In Agamemnon, (a tragedy first performed in Athens, Greece, in 458 BC), a king's decision to sacrifice...