Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. Regarded by many as one of the very greatest of the Romantic poets, John Keats was also among the most intriguing figures of his age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful...

John Keats, who died at the age of twenty-five, had perhaps the most remarkable career of any English poet. Regarded by many as one of the very greatest of the Romantic poets, John Keats was also among the most intriguing figures of his age. A sensualist who composed erotic and playful...

Émile Zola’s The Dram-Shop is irresistible. Like the best of Dickens, it tells the story of an underclass with compassion and leaves its readers emotionally bereft. Considered one of Zola's masterpieces, The Dram-Shop—a study of alcoholism and poverty in the working-class districts...

Upon its publication in 1774, The Sorrows of Young Werther gained an instant following. European readers were captivated by the rapturous musings of Werther, Goethe's romantic protagonist whose extreme passion leads to self-destruction. Public fascination gave rise to a fanatical copycat culture,...

“…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...