Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

Turgenev’s novella King Lear of the Steppes published in 1870 is a creative adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, set in the Russian countryside. Believing he has dreamed of his own impending death, a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision when he transfers...

One of the most fascinating and satisfying elements in Boccaccio’s art is his ability to tell a delightful story that is also an erudite and deeply human discussion of the value of communication. So it is with A Story of Ravenna. While the themes of chivalry and love in these works had long...

The Man of Property Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery Awakening To Let Few writers have captured the living texture of life as well as John Galsworthy. The Forsyte Saga [Complete Series] is a series of three novels and two interludes published between 1906 and...

For lo! the Board with Cups and Spoons is crown’d, The Berries crackle, and the Mill turns round. On shining Altars of Japan They raise The silver Lamp; the fiery Spirits blaze. From silver Spouts the grateful Liquors...

The thrill of reading Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out is the feeling of looking into a whirlpool just as something utterly extraordinary and unexpected materializes for the first time.  It is so for all her novels. The language itself dazzles: vivid, evocative, poetic language,...

Among the most inventive of Ibsen's works and one of his most frequently performed plays, The Master Builder offers audiences a thought-provoking examination of an architect jealous of rivals and haunted by guilt. First performed in 1892, Ibsen’s psychological tapestry is one of the great...

“I mean to speak Of that interminable building reared By observation of affinities In objects where no brotherhood exists To common minds…” The Prelude, published a year after Wordsworth’s death in 1850, describes his experiences of growing up as a man and a poet, beginning with an...

Sir Walter Scott’s Tales of My Landlord is comprised of two of his classic novels: Old Mortality, and The Black Dwarf. Perhaps the finest and certainly the most readable of Scott's novels, Old Mortality is a swift-moving historical romance that pits a classical hero against the forces of...

 O gluttony, the height of wickedness! O primal cause of mankind's utter fall! O first and original sin that damned us all       Christ redeemed us with his own dear blood! ... O stomach! O belly! O stinking bag of jelly, Filled...

"La libertad es el derecho de todo hombre a ser honesto, a pensar ya hablar sin hipocresía". Durante más de un siglo, el revolucionario y escritor cubano José Martí (1853-1895) ha sido visto como una figura fundamental, casi sagrada, en el panteón de la historia latinoamericana....

**VINCENT O’SULLIVAN (**1868–1940) was an American short story writer, poet and critic. In addition to a biography of Oscar Wilde, his works dealt with the morbid, the decadent, and the supernatural. His collection of supernatural fiction, When I Was Dead contains a same-named ghost story, and...

In Kate Chopin’s classic tale The Story of an Hour, Louise Mallard receives a terrible shock after hearing of the death of her husband, Brently in a railroad disaster. Mrs. Mallard suffers from heart problems; therefore, her sister informs her of the horrific news in a gentle way. Mrs....

“How do I love thee?  Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace…” ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861) the English poet is best known for her...

Aristophanes' The Birds is a timeless comedy, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to delightful effect. Modern critics have acclaimed it as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs. His trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal...