Bronson Tweed Publishing: 165 books

The Angel in the House is a narrative piece of poetry by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Although largely ignored upon publication, it became enormously popular in the United States during the later 19th century and then in Britain, and its influence continued well...

Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a series of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue...

The Antichrist (German: Der Antichrist ) is a novel by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1895. Although it was written in 1888, its controversial content made Franz Overbeck delay its publication, along with Ecce Homo.  The German title can be translated into English...

Tristan und Isolde is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the romance by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was made between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June...

Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes.  First performed in classical Athens in  , it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of...

The Birds is a comedic work by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. Unlike...

A Boy's Will is a collection of poetry by Robert Frost. It is Frost's first commercially published book of poems. Frost admitted that much of the work was autobiographical. As the proof sheets were printed in January 1913, he wrote the poems were "pretty near being the story of five years"...

Protagoras is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle (which may or may not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists". The central argument is between the elderly Protagoras, a celebrated Sophist, and Socrates. The discussion takes place at the home of Callias, who is host to Protagoras while...

Inferno  is the first section of Dante Alighieri's 14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poetry by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence...

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, composed by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is composed of 9,896 lines in dactylic hexameter.  The first six of the poem's twelve books tell...

The Flowers of Evil is a volume of French poems by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an...

This wonderful collection contains the best works of Jonathan Swift, including A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels, and A Tale of a Tub.  This collection has been meticulously formatted, with an active table of contents for the books.  This edition is also annotated, with additional...