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"My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand" Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India and is the youngest ever recipient to win a Nobel Prize award for Literature in 1907. This volume offers a collection of some of his popular tales like, "The Eyes of Asia", "The Story of the Gadsbys" and perhaps what he is best known for, "The Jungle Book" series. In his writings, he has addressed issues on racism and masculinity amidst other relevant issues and themes of courage, perseverance and friendship.

"We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen" David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was an English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, letters and travel books and his writings often challenged the norms of the society. This compilation consists of short stories like, "A Modern Lover", "The Blind Man" "The Mortal Coil" and several other popular ones. His stories are well structured and easily comprehensible along with being refreshingly honest as well. A majority of his stories frequently dwell on the complexities of human relationships, friendships and lost possibilities which are easily relatable to our current lives.

"Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for" Virginia Woolf is known to explore the realm of thoughts and feelings and is generally acknowledged as one of the major innovative novelists of the twentieth century. Through her works, she has constantly examined the position and the physical and psychological struggles of women. Her writings evoke a plethora of feelings and this volume brings together a collection of her finest and most representative works of fiction including "A Room of One's Own", "To the Lighthouse" and "Mrs. Dalloway" for you to indulge in.

The brooding mansion of the distinctive Pyncheon family is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts a shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four family members. Hawthorne's Gothic Romance intertwines the popular, the symbolic, and the historical for a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850.[1] Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Containing a number of religious and historic allusions, the book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society.

One dark night, Hamlet sees a ghost. It is his dead father, who claims he was murdered by Claudius, the new king. But did Hamlet really see a ghost? And if so, was it telling him the truth? Hamlet plans to avenge his father by killing Claudius. But the man he stabs isn't Claudius, as he thinks, but his girlfriend's father. So the wrong man dies. So much tragedy, but there is more to come. Who else will die an untimely death? And who will live to tell the tale?

A tightly constructed drama which is regarded as one of the William Shakespeare's finest; "Othello" is the story of its titular character, a Moorish general in the Venetian army. Othello secretly marries Desdemona, the daughter of Venetian senator Brabantio, who disapproves of the union. The marriage draws the contempt of Roderigo, a wealthy gentleman of low moral character who is in love with Desdemona and has asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is an ensign under the command of Othello who is angry for being passed over for promotion. Iago plots against Othello by convincing him that his wife is having an adulterous affair with Cassio, whom he has been passed over by for promotion. As the web of deceit is woven a series of tragic events begins to unfold for all those involved. Based upon a 16th century short story entitled "A Moorish Captain" by Italian novelist and poet Cinthio, "Othello," masterfully dramatizes the tragic consequences that can arise from jealous deceit. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper, is annotated by Henry N. Hudson, and includes an introduction by Charles H. Herford.

Julius Caesar is a key link between Shakespeare's histories and his tragedies. Unlike the Caesar drawn by Plutarch in a source text, Shakespeare's Caesar is surprisingly modern: vulnerable and imperfect, a powerful man who does not always know himself. The open-ended structure of the play insists that revealing events will continue after the play ends, making the significance of the history we have just witnessed impossible to determine in the play itself. John D. Cox's introduction discusses issues of genre, characterization, and rhetoric, while also providing a detailed history of criticism of the play. Appendices provide excerpts from important related works by Lucretius, Plutarch, and Montaigne.