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  Ten Years Later - D'Artagnan...

  Alexandre Dumas

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  Ten Years Later is a novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is the third and last of The d'Artagnan Romances, following The Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. It appeared first in serial form between 1847 and 1850.

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  The Moon and Sixpence

  W. Somerset Maugham

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  Based on the life of Postimpressionist artist Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence builds on a long tradition of European writing about the South Pacific as an exotic locale. It also marks the transformation of British writer W. Somerset Maugham from celebrated playwright to accomplished novelist. In The Moon and Sixpence, Charles Strickland is a respectable London stockbroker who decides in middle age to abandon his wife and children and devote himself to his true passion: art. Strickland's destructive desire for self-expression takes him first to Paris to learn the craft of painting, and finally to Tahiti in the South Pacific. The Moon and Sixpence remains a complex and engaging novel echoing Maugham's own struggles between artistic expression and public respectability, and between his public persona and private life.

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  The Judge's House and other stories

  Bram Stoker

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  The creator of “Dracula” Bram Stoker wrote many other novels and works of short fiction. Here are four of his short stories which have some of the same weird, unsettling and entertaining qualities as his gothic masterpiece. They are "The Judge's House," "The Secret of the Growing Gold," "The Squaw" and "A Dream of Red Hands."

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  Medea

  Euripides

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  Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot centers on the actions of Medea, a former princess of the "barbarian" kingdom of Colchis, and the wife of Jason; she finds her position in the Greek world threatened as Jason leaves her for a Greek princess of Corinth. Medea takes vengeance on Jason by murdering Jason's new wife as well as her own children, after which she escapes to Athens to start a new life.

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  Shakespeare Tales of Wisdom

  William Shakespeare, Edith Nesbit

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  There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. 
  Shakespeare is often referred to as the great teacher of life and for a good reason, too. His tales offer worldly wisdom on tap and a great abundance of it. 
  In this collection of Shakespeare tales, we offer those that perhaps more than others teach us important lessons. 
  The collection includes: 
  The Taming of the ShrewTimon of AthensAll's Well That Ends Well 
  Read in English, unabridged.

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  The Tosa Diary

  no Tsurayuki Ki

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  Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times". He is also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan.  
   The Tosa Diary, written in 935, is considered the major work of Tsurayuki. It is an account of his return to the capital Kyoto from Tosa province, where he had served as governor since 930. The journey is by boat, and Tsurayuki tells about his sea sickness and fear of pirates, his impressions of the coast, and the various offerings to placate the gods of the sea. The Tosa Diary is written entirely in kana (the women's alphabet) and contains many poems composed by Tsurayuki during the journey.

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