Bronson Tweed Publishing: 165 books

King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the main character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. Based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king,...

All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic work of drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden's best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama. It is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare’s...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a work of poetry by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval-le-Grand or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol (pronounced "redding jail") on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences...

When We Dead Awaken is the last composed written by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Published in December 1899, Ibsen wrote the play between February and November of that year. The first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London, a day or two before publication. The first act takes place...

The Tao Te Ching, also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic work. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage; pinyin: Lǎozǐ, literally meaning "Old Master"), a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China....

Life Is a Dream is a Spanish-language drama by Pedro Calderon de la Barca. First published in 1635 (or possibly early in 1636), it is a philosophical allegory regarding the human situation and the mystery of life.  The play has been described as "the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age...

The Pencil of Nature, written in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the "first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published" or "the first commercially published book illustrated with photographs". It was wholly executed by the new art of Photogenic Drawing,...

This wonderful collection features the absolute best stories of H.G. Wells.  Included are The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The Red Room.  This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  This...

Mosses from an Old Manse was a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846.  It features several famous stories of Hawthorne.  Many of the tales collected in Mosses from an Old Manse are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the bad side of human nature....

"The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories composed by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow. Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve...

Hans Christian Andersen brought the fairy tale genre to a new level by writing a vast number of fairy tales that were both bold and original. Initially they were not met with recognition, due partly to the difficulty in translating them and capturing his genius for wit and dark pathos. This...

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, thought to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a...

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, thought to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and...