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"TheArabian Nights is more generally loved than Shakespeare," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. «No human face or voice greets us among [this] crowd of kings and genies, sorcerers and beggar men. Adventure on the most naked terms, furnishes forth the entertainment and is found enough.»The best-known versions of these ancient Middle Eastern tales are those translated by the Victorian English explorer and writer, Richard F. Burton. Arabic in origin, they are also known as A Thousand and One Nights — a collection of fairy tales, romances, legends, and exotic adventures told by Scheherazade to entertain her husband, the king, who customarily executed his wives after a single night. Scheherazade cleverly began a story each night but withheld the ending until the following evening, thereby managing to stave off disaster.This original selection includes six of the most famous tales. «Sinbad the Seaman and Sinbad the Landsman» is the story of a merchant who survives seven perilous voyages and acquires great wealth; «Aladdin, or the Wonderful Lamp» relates the remarkable adventures of a «graceless» youth and his miraculous lamp; «Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves» is the exciting narrative of a poor woodcutter who gains access to great treasures by entering a secret cave. Also here are «The Fisherman and the Jinni,» «Judar and His Brethren,» and «Khalifah the Fisherman of Baghdad.»These enchanting tales have captured the imaginations of readers for generations. Their magical world, teeming with giants, magnificent palaces, and beautiful princesses will thrill new audiences.
Food and Drink
This entertaining little book contains scores of thoughts, opinions, witticisms, and insights on two of the necessities — and greatest pleasures — of life. Included are humorous comments by Samuel Johnson («A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.») and Henny Youngman («My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.»); incisive remarks by George Bernard Shaw («Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.») and Mark Twain («Eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.»); along with hilarious and frequently thoughtful advice from Robert Morley, G. K. Chesterton, W. C. Fields, Julia Child, Andy Rooney, Marilyn Monroe, Elsa Schiaparelli, and a host of other writers, humorists, and celebrities. Arranged according to subject (alcohol, cheese, cooking, fruits and vegetables, diet, hunger, etc.), this delightful collection will be welcomed by public speakers, speech writers, and general readers.
Great Poems by American Women
From the colonial-era poets to such twentieth-century writers as Marianne Moore and Sylvia Plath, this inspiring anthology offers a retrospective of more than three centuries of poems by American women. Over 200 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more."To My Dear and Loving Husband," written by America's first poet of note, Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672), appears here, along with "On Imagination," by Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), America's first great black woman poet. Selections also include more than a dozen beloved works by Emily Dickinson as well as masterly verses by Hilda Doolittle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Emma Lazarus, and numerous lesser-known authors.A superb introduction to America's women poets, this engaging collection offers an inexpensive and rewarding resource for students, teachers, and all lovers of fine poetry.
Great Speeches by Native Americans
Remarkable for their eloquence, depth of feeling, and oratorical mastery, these 82 compelling speeches encompass five centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous people. Beginning with a 1540 refusal by a Timucua chief to parley with Hernando de Soto («With such a people I want no peace»), the collection extends to the 20th-century address of activist Russell Means to the United Nations affiliates and members of the Human Rights Commission («We are people who love in the belly of the monster»).Other memorable orations include Powhatan's «Why should you destroy us, who have provided you with food?» (1609); Red Jacket's «We like our religion, and do not want another» (1811); Osceola's «I love my home, and will not go from it» (1834); Red Cloud's «The Great Spirit made us both» (1870); Chief Joseph's «I will fight no more forever» (1877); Sitting Bull's «The life my people want is a life of freedom» (1882); and many more. Other notable speakers represented here include Tecumseh, Seattle, Geronimo, and Crazy Horse, as well as many lesser-known leaders.Graced by forceful metaphors and vivid imagery expressing emotions that range from the utmost indignation to the deepest sorrow, these addresses are deeply moving documents that offer a window into the hearts and minds of Native Americans as they struggled against the overwhelming tide of European and American encroachment. This inexpensive edition, with informative notes about each speech and orator, will prove indispensable to anyone interested in Native American history and culture.
Great Sonnets
One of the most powerfully moving and evocative forms of poetry, the sonnet has been popular for more than 450 years. Unlike many other poetic genres, the sonnet has never gone out of fashion and its popularity today remains unabated.This collection contains a rich selection of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Included are great sonnets by the greatest poets. All have been carefully chosen for distinction in style or substance or both.Included are such masterpieces of the form as: «Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?» by Shakespeare; «Death Be Not Proud» by Donne; «On His Blindness» by Milton; «The World Is Too Much with Us» by Wordsworth; «Ozymandias» by Shelley; «On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer» by Keats; «How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways» by E. Browning; «Acquainted with the Night» by Frost; «Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare» by Millay; and poems by Spenser, Sidney, Burns, Blake, Byron, Longfellow, Tennyson, Poe, Swinburne, Wilde, E. A. Robinson, Dunbar, MacLeish, and many more.In this inexpensive treasury, lovers of poetry can study and savor the ways in which a host of great poets used the versatile sonnet form to express everything from the «light conceits of love» to the most profound meditations.Includes two selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: «The New Colossus» and «Ozymandias.»
Great Russian Short Stories
Among the country's greatest artistic contributions, 20th-century Russian literature was revolutionary in its approach to realism, injecting characters with human weaknesses familiar to all. It also provided fodder for other such important concepts as existentialism and even passive resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy, and practiced resistance, which was rooted in the works of Tolstoy and practiced successfully by Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The 12 powerful short stories in this collection are excellent examples of writing by the foremost authors from Russia's Golden Age of Literature.Included are «The Queen of Spades» by Alexander Pushkin; «The Overcoat» by Nikolai Gogol; «The District Doctor» by Ivan S. Turgenev; «White Nights» by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; «How Much Land Does a Man Need?» by Leo Tolstoy; «The Clothesmender» by Nicholay Leskov; «The Signal» by Vsevolod M. Garshin; «The Lady with the Toy Dog» by Anton Chekhov; «The White Mother» by Theodor Sologub"; «Twenty-Six Men and a Girl» by Maxim Gorky; «The Outrage — A True Story» by Alexander Kuprin; and «Lazarus» by Laonid Andreyev.Ideal for students of Russian literature, this magnificent collection will appeal to a wide audience.
Great American Short Stories
Featuring 19 of the finest works from the most distinguished writers in the American short-story tradition, this new compilation begins with Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1835 tale «Young Goodman Brown» and ranges across an entire century, concluding with Ernest Hemingway's 1927 classic, «The Killers.» Other selections include Poe's «The Tell-Tale Heart,» Melville's «Bartleby,» Harte's «The Luck of Roaring Camp,» «To Build a Fire,» by Jack London, «The Real Thing» by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald's «Bernice Bobs Her Hair,» plus stories by Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Charles Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Perfect for classroom use, this outstanding collection of tales will also prove popular with fiction readers everywhere.
Great English Short Stories
The delighted wonder surrounding a cat that has learned to talk quickly turns to dismay when the feline's conversation involves the scandalous remarks he's overheard. «Tobermory» abounds in the irony for which its author, Saki, is well known and admired. Along with the other short stories in this first-rate anthology, it showcases the talents of a renowned British writer.Other stories include Anthony Trollope's «The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne,» a subtle study of the psychological cost of maintaining self-esteem; Thomas Hardy's «The Fiddler of the Reels,» in which a village girl is seduced by the beguiling melodies of a diabolical musician; and M. R. James's «Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad,» the tale of a vacationing professor who conjures up the unexpected with an artifact from a ruined medieval church. «The Haunted House,» by Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling's story of a golden-haired ghost, «The Phantom 'Rickshaw,» also venture into the supernatural. Additional selections include D. H. Lawrence's «The Prussian Officer,» H. G. Wells's «Under the Knife,» and Robert Louis Stevenson's «A Lodging for the Night,» plus stories by John Galsworthy, Wilkie Collins, and others.
Great Horse Stories
Readers who love horses will cherish this blue-ribbon collection of fifteen short stories by such famous authors as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, and Erle Stanley Gardner. Suitable for ages 10 and older, these tales of wild and tame horses offer a thrilling blend of adventure and realism. The collection opens with an abridgment of Anna Sewell's classic Black Beauty, the moving account of a horse's working life, pulling cabs in Victorian London. Subsequent stories include «Her First Horse Show» by David Gray, «The Brogue» by Saki, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's «The Doctor's Horse,» «Carved in Sand» by Erle Stanley Gardner, and many others.
Great French Short Stories
Twelve of the finest short stories by great French writers comprise this excellent collection, with themes that range from desire and psychological intrigue to the mysteries of failure and success.Includes: «The Horla» and «The Necklace» by Guy de Maupassant; «The Attack on the Mill» by Emile Zola; «Mocromegas» by Voltaire; «The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler» by Gustave Flaubert; «Mateo Falcone» by Prosper Mérimée; «The Return of the Prodigal Son» by André Gide; «The Dark Lantern» by Jules Renard; «Emilie» by Gérard de Nerval; «The Unknown Masterpieces» by Honoré de Balzac; «The Pope's Mule» by Alphonse Daudet; and «Salomé» by Jules Laforgue.Classic explorations of passion, terror, and fate, these enduring literary gems will be invaluable to students and teachers of French literature and a joy for anyone who delights in fine writing.