Artisan: 415 books

“…a plain, yellow-wrapped package about the size of a cigarette-box…neatly tied with scarlet twine, and innocent of markings except for the superscription in a precise, copperplate hand, and the smudge of the postmark across the ten-cent stamp in the upper right-hand corner…” Few...

“I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool...

The Lower Depths portrays a hideous and filthy lodging house, where gather such social derelicts as a thief, a gambler, an ex-artist, an ex-aristocrat, and a prostitute. All of them had at one time an ambition, a goal, but because of their lack of will and the injustice and cruelty of the...

Michael Robartes and the Dancer has long been regarded as an odd combination of ballad-history and self-revelation. This edition presents all the extant manuscripts for the poems which Yeats wrote between 1914 and 1919, a critical period that included his marriage. Published during...

Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse is a novel by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published in 1761. The original edition was named Lettres de deux amans habitans d'une petite ville au pied des Alpes ("Letters from two lovers living in a small town at the foot of the Alps"). The novel...

‘There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped…” A masterwork of intricate creation, Winesburg, Ohio* is Sherwood Anderson's brilliant series of short stories concerning life in a small Ohio town at the end of the nineteenth century,...

Rock Crystal is an exquisite novella by a master, a writer of lucid serenity whose sublime tales have established themselves as classics of short fiction. As the story opens, it is the day before Christmas, and Conrad and Susanna (nicknamed Sanna) are paying a holiday visit to their grandmother...

What attracts me is the striking juxtaposition of barbarism and civilization in our strange time. I hold that there is the artist’s opportunity these days, the greatest of many opportunities.” —George Gissing Bigamy, bisexuality and betrayal form the sensational plot of "Demos,"...

EUGENE O’NEILL (1888 – 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His plays The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night, A Moon for the Misbegotten and Long Day's Journey into Night are included on the short lists of the finest American plays of the 20th century. Tomorrow was the only short story Eugene O'Neill chose to publish in his lifetime.

          ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889) was a towering poetic presence of the Victorian era that changed the literary universe. His poetry was highly distinctive, adopting a multitude of rhythms, images, forms, and personae. The sheer...

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (1804-1864), one of the greatest authors of the nineteenth century, transformed the art of fiction. The author of numerous novels and short stories, including The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, he was an acknowledged master of the form, and admired for his explorations...

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams wrote verse firmly rooted in the details of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech...

Anna Christie was a trailblazing 20th century drama including much what O’Neill had on his mind, from the nature of a man who goes to sea, to feminism, to psychological dysfunction. Anna is reunited after a gap of 15 years with her father Chris, an old Scandinavian salt and now captain of...

Mankind is looking for something, and will certainly find it. Oh, if it only happened more quickly! In another life, Anton Chekhov would have made a great psychiatrist. His observations of turn-of-the-century Russian society and the class rage boiling quietly under the surface feel...