Artisan: 415 books

”I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear", "Romeo and Juliet", "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I...

LAFCADIO HEARN (1850–1904) was an international writer, best known for his classical collections of legends and ghost stories, and studies of all things strange and marvelous. He became known to the world at large by the originality, power and literary charm of his writings. Indeed, this wayward...

“All I need is your silence to succeed.” Silence implies consent…” Phèdre by Jean Racine is what Lytton Strachey described as the “history of a spiritual crisis…the final catastrophic phases of a long series of events.” Based on the play Hippolytus by the Greek playwright...

“From the closed garden Where our feet pace Back and forth each day, This gladiolus white…” HILDA DOOLITTLE (1886–1961) was an American poet, novelist, and playwright known for her association with the illustrious Ezra Pound. She published under the pen name of H.D. She became a patient...

Capital [Das Kapital] is a ground-breaking work of economic analysis, one of the most significant essays ever devised by the 19th-century economist and philosopher Karl Marx in which he expounded his theory of the capitalist system, its dynamism, and its tendencies toward self-destruction. Marx’s...

Life Is a Dream, Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s sublime musing on power, honor and the human psyche is one of the greatest works of the Spanish golden age. It looks forward to such modern dramatic themes as the adaptable nature of reality and the possibility of freedom in a world seemingly...

Sensitive, funny, and deeply humane, Inheritance quickly reveals itself to be a collection of hypnotic, seductively pensive short stories on the nature of children as hostages of fortune. A stunning performance by author Jane Dossick.   Inheritance is a keenly observed, skillfully...

In this masterful play, Gemma is a young woman still living at home with her grimly dependent mother. Because she is overweight and feels unattractive, Gemma has spent much of her life feeling insecure about herself. At home, Gemma is dominated by her mother, confined to her bed by a...

"Dann für einen plötzlichen Moment dachte sie, dass sie verrückt geworden sein muss, weil dort in der Mitte des Gartens, mit einem ruhigen Lächeln auf ihrem Gesicht, ihr eigenes Doppeltes stand ..." Das Grüne Gesicht wurde von dem österreichischen Schriftsteller Gustav Meyrink...

"Ein Rabbiner soll mit lang verloren geglaubten Formeln aus der Kabbala einen künstlichen Menschen - den sogenannten Golem - gemacht haben, und er wurde durch eine Art pflanzliches Halbleben animiert. Das Leben, das es hatte, war von einem Zauberzauber abgeleitet, der jeden Tag hinter seinen...

“Cogito Ergo Sum. I Think, Therefore I Am…” —René Descartes Descartes' Discourse marks a breakpoint in European thought: in it, he sets out a radical new philosophy, which begins with a proof of the existence of the self (the famous "cogito ergo sum")....

Welcome to our adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on its 149th Anniversary. Come along as we follow the White Rabbit while he is chased across Wonderland by a young girl named Alice. The White Rabbit, is a bunny in good standing in the community and he has many responsibilities...

      The Nature of Things combines some of the greatest poetry ever written, with a scientific and philosophical treatise. Lucretius guides the reader through an extraordinary breadth of subject matter, ranging from the indestructibility of atoms and...

  MARIANNE MOORE (1887-1974) was one of the most innovative poets of the twentieth century, often placed on par with contemporaries such as Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, all of whom admired her greatly. Widely read and appreciated during...