This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Manzoni, like Dante Aligheri hundreds of years earlier, believed in establishing the Tuscan dialect as the standard language of a unified Italy. With I promessi sposi (The betrothed), Manzoni helped realize that ambition and earned prominence as one of the great Italian literary figures of the nineteenth century. The story is considered a masterpiece of romance and was held in high regard by Sir Walter Scott. The story of two poor lovers is set in seventeenth-century Lombardy, and Manzoni draws detailed portraits of men and women and the harsh life under Spanish occupation...

A tragedy written in blank verse by Christopher Marlowe, Edward the Second begins with the recall of Edward's favorite subject, Piers Gaveston, from exile and ends with his abdication of the crown and his murder. Marlowe was a contemporary of William Shakespeare and this play is seen as an important influence on Shakespeare's Richard II. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This novel is the first book of Dreiser's "Trilogy of Desire" - The Financier, The Titan, and The Stoic - which traces the ambitions of financier Frank Algernon Cowperwood. The first book covers Cowperwood's early years, during which he amasses a fortune through stock speculation and investment in railroads. A financial panic results in great losses and Cowperwood engages in illegal activity to cover his debts. He is caught, tried, and convicted for larceny. Though pardoned after a year, he loses his social standing and leaves Philadelphia to build another fortune...

This story about parricide and moral struggles with faith, reason, and free will is considered one of the greatest literary achievements of all time. The Brothers Karamazov is Doesoevsky's last novel, in which he again considers nihilism, faith, psychological breakdown, murder, and redemption through the rivalries between three brothers and their uninterested father...

Sister Carrie is a story of adultery and city life at the turn of the 20th century, and the philosophical ruminations of Dreiser. The novel created a stir due to its depiction of an "immoral" woman who has an affair with a married man, and the book's publisher reluctantly published the book, without promoting its sale. A British edition came out shortly thereafter and was praised by reviewers. Since then, the book's place in literary history is due to its fight in the name of literary freedom rather than for literary greatness. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Frederick Douglass-orator, author, and newspaper editor- was one of the most influential and outspoken abolitionists of his time. Born a slave, he was taught how to read and write by one of his owners and eventually escaped North to freedom. In his autobiography, he gives a detailed account of his life, including the brutal treatment he endured as a slave and his escape...

Published in 1855, ten years after his first autobiography, Douglass, continues the narrative of his amazing life. Douglass remained a fervent supporter of equal rights, continuing to champion the cause in speeches, as well as in his newspaper. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

A poor and disturbed university student, Raskolnikov, plots and commits murder as an intellectual and "moral" act of superiority. Dostoevsky plunges his character into the depths of despair and suffering and then provides him with the means for redemption. ..

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...