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The Rubáiyát is a selection of poetry by Persian philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyám, compiled and translated by English poet Edward Fitzgerald. Though many others have translated their own versions of Khayyám’s poetry, Fitzgerald’s remains the most influential. This digital...

Though it is one of its author's lesser-known works, Specimen Days is perhaps the closest thing to an autobiography that Walt Whitman ever wrote. The book defies any notion of genre, and is a hodgepodge of accounts about Whitman's youth, his experiences in the American Civil War, and his musings on nature...

Erik Ronningen was on the 71st floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001 when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building. After an incredible, near miraculous journey down through the acrid, smoke-filled building, Erik tried to get to the Security Command Center in the South Tower. Unable...

The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) may speak of the carnal, depraved, and decaying in human life and the city, but Charles Baudelaire’s poetry so infuses even the most grotesque with beauty and a kind of innocence that the reader is moved beyond the rubric of the sacred and profane, into sublimity....

Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe—literary critic, editor, fictionist, and poet—stands as one of the most memorable, enduring figures of the American Romantic Movement. His poems—including “The Raven,” “The Bells,” and “Annabelle Lee”—have haunted...

In this new edition of "stories and studies of strange things" accompanied by illustrations by Lester Banzuelo, Lafcadio Hearn draws from his life in Japan and sketches a delicate, haunting world of snow maidens and faceless ghosts, corpse-eaters and trickster demons, soul mountains and enchanted sleep....