Editions Artisan Devereaux Llc: 263 books

Many readers have long considered Balzac to be perhaps the greatest of all novelists. Eugénie Grandet, his masterful study of a girl whose life is scarred by her father's insane greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. World literature has some memorable cold-hearted...

“He who cherishes an individual beyond his homeland… is nothing…" Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the ill-fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas...

Charles Baudelaire wrote of The Flowers of Evil: “There are in every man at all times two simultaneous impulses: one toward God, the other toward Satan.” Its principal themes of sex and death, created a public scandal. The work was banned for verses then considered obscene and “an insult to...

Trilce, los poemas escritos en la cárcel por delitos políticos por parte de César Vallejo, son marcadamente diferentes de los poemas idílicos de Los Heraldos Negros. Trilce es más intenso, más original que el primer volumen. El poeta reconoce...

Second only to the Bible, the Dao De Jing (or Tao Te Ching) is the most translated work in world literature. Allied to the Bible, the Quran, and the dialogues of Plato, the Dao De Jing is the purest scripture of Daoism. Modern philosophers, such as Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger and...

"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....

Original Stories from Real Life is the only complete work of children's literature extant by Mary Wollstonecraft. She wrote it to provide a model for teachers and pupils that would ‘fix principles of truth and humanity on a solid and simple foundation’, as she explains in her preface....

In his brilliant essay How I Write – The Philosophy of Composition, Edgar Allan Poe describes a theory about how good writers write when they write well. In it he concludes that length, "unity of effect" and a logical method are vital considerations for good writing. He also makes...

Une saison en enfer est un long poème écrit et publié en 1873 par Arthur Rimbaud. Il est considéré par beaucoup comme son chef-d'oeuvre. Rimbaud a commencé à écrire le poème en Avril, lors d'une visite à la ferme...

CLARENCE MULFORD (1883–1956) was an American author. Mulford spent his creative years writing a vast saga of interlocking novels and stories, most of them dealing with the Bar-20 ranch and the men who called it home, chief among them a certain Hopalong Cassidy. Many of these classic western stories...

"It amused her so much to feel them gradually conquered, dominated by her invincible power as a woman, to become for them the Unique, and Sovereign Idol!" Guy De Maupassant, protégé of Gustave Flaubert, is considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and a master novelist. The...

“Life is a slope. As long as you’re going up you’re looking towards the top and feel happy; but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It’s slow going up but quick going down…” Guy De Maupassant, a protégé of Gustave Flaubert,...

WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS (1883-1963) One of the most original and widely imitated poets of the twentieth century, William Carlos Williams wrote verse firmly rooted in the details of everyday life. A practicing physician for more than 40 years, Williams worked in the idiom of modern American speech,...

“This vague, hopeless love I had conceived for an actress, this love which swept me up every evening when the curtain rose, only to release me when sleep finally descended, had its seed in the memory of Adrienne, a night-flower blooming in the pale effulgence of the moon, a phantom fair and rosy...