Bronson Tweed Publishing: 165 books

The Hairy Ape (1922) is an expressionist work by Eugene O'Neill about a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an oceanliner, and is highly confident in his physical...

Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired men and women in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. In clear, concise language it explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence. It...

"The Waste Land", by T.S. Eliot, is conclusively regarded as "one of the most important poems of the 20th century" and a central text in Modernist poetry.   Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of The Criterion...

Meno is a Socratic dialogue composed by Plato. It attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The first part of the work is written in the Socratic dialectical style and Meno is reduced to confusion...

Intrigue and Love , sometimes Love and Intrigue, Love and Politics or Luise Miller  is a five-act drama, written by the German dramatist Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805). It was his third play and shows how cabals and their intrigue destroy the love between Ferdinand von Walter, a nobleman's...

Les Misérables is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.  Beginning in 1815 and culminating in the 1832 June Rebellion in Paris, the novel follows the lives and interactions of several characters, particularly the struggles of ex-convict Jean Valjean and his experience...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a humorous classic by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next seven years (vols. 3 and 4, 1761; vols. 5 and 6, 1762; vols....

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a collection published by [E. Nesbit] with the intention of entertaining young readers and telling William Shakespeare's plays in a way they could be easily understood. She included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the more difficult...

Der Struwwelpeter (1845) (or Shockheaded Peter) is a German children's tale by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first...

The Three Little Pigs is a fable/fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic pigs who make three houses of different materials. A big bad wolf is able to blow down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and sticks respectively, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks. Printed versions...

About the Book: This collection contains the works of Jonathan Swift, including A Modest Proposal and Gulliver’s Travels..   This collection has been meticulously formatted, with an active table of contents for the books.  This edition is also annotated, with additional information about...

The book The Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for suitable farmland to own. The book is notable for its scenes in which...

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror book by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions. American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft listed...