Dover Publications

This landmark probes the lives and dreams of Olga, Masha and Irina, former Muscovites now living in a provincial town from which they long to escape. Their hopes for a life more suited to their cultivated tastes and sensibilities provide a touching counterpoint to the relentless flow of compromising events in the real world.

This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of Russian grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday Russian, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.

Classic adventure story of a perilous sea journey, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure — seen through the eyes of cabin boy Jim Hawkins.

In addition to the title story, this treasury includes The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, Ginger & Pickles, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse, The Tale of Tom Kitten, and 4 more. Newly reset in large type with 59 new illustrations.

Beloved classic describes a little girl's adventures in a topsy-turvy land underground and her encounters with such improbable characters as the White Rabbit, March Hare and Mad Hatter, the sleepy Dormouse, grinning Cheshire Cat, Mock Turtle and the dreadful Queen of Hearts. Includes all 42 of Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations.

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19'th and 20'th century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original.

Lovely prints, meticulously reproduced from rare 18th- and 19th-century botanical classics: the Waratah Camellia by Samuel Curtis, Mary Lawrance's Austrian Copper Brier Rose, Anemones and other flowers by Jean-Louis Prevost, Walter Hood Fitch's Lily, G. D. Ehret's magnificent multi-blossomed Turk's-cap Lily, and the Iris xiphioides by Pierre-Joseph Redoute.

Superb examples of the ironworker's art — elaborately wrought designs for gates, fences, finials, banisters, window grilles, signs, marquees, cathedral screens, and a host of other architectural and decorative appointments, from Gothic style to Art Nouveau — meticulously rendered in fine black-and-white drawings reprinted from rare European and American books and periodicals.

Down through the millennia the emotion of love has inspired countless poets to great heights of lyrical expression. In this volume readers can sample more than 150 great love poems by English and American poets.

Great title poem plus Kubla Khan, Christabel, 20 other sonnets, lyrics, odes. Sonnet: To a Friend who asked how I felt when the Nurse first presented my Infant to me, Frost at Midnight, The Nightingale, The Pains of Sleep, To William Wordsworth, Youth and Age, many more. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.

What American men, women and children wore in the 1940s, shown in 122 fully illustrated and captioned pages selected from rare copies of Sears catalogs, reproduced in large format on high-quality glossy stock. Hundreds of detailed drawings depict hats, overcoats and shoes, suits and dresses, sportswear, undergarments, corsetry, neckties, rainwear and personal accessories. JoAnne Olian is a curator of the costume collection at the Museum of the City of New York.

Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Emily Dickinson's I' m Nobody Who are you?, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing, many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.

Five stories that epitomize Jack London's mastery of the adventure story. The White Silence, In a Far Country, and An Odyssey of the North bring the harshness of the frozen North powerfully to life while The Seed of McCoy reflects London's experiences as a sailor in the South Seas. Also includes The Mexican. Publisher's Note.

Sixteen captivating stories by one of America's most popular storytellers. Included are such classics as «The Gift of the Magi,» «The Last Leaf,» «The Ransom of Red Chief,» «The Voice of the City,» and «The Cop and the Anthem.» Publisher's Note.

Ten classics of supernatural fiction by masters of the macabre: Bram Stoker's The Judge's House, The Moonlit Road by Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James' The Rose Garden, Charles Dickens' To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt, Dickon the Devil by J. S. LeFanu, E. G. Swain's Bone to His Bone and 5 others.

Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: «The Nose», a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; «Old-Fashioned Farmers», a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; «The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich», one of Gogol’s most famous comic stories; and «The Overcoat», widely considered a masterpiece of form.

A must for architectural historians, restoration specialists and vintage home enthusiasts: 1,095 late Victorian-era designs, superbly drawn or photographed, including egg and dart enrichments; bead, flute and ogee enrichments; drapery and drop ornaments; urns, vases and wreaths; eagles, lion heads and gargoyles; rosettes, ribbons, garlands and festoons; sunbursts, weather vanes and more.

Masterfully executed designs in reproductions of two rare catalogs: ornamental borders, corners and frames with intricate floral and foliated patterns, architectural ornaments and design elements, religious symbols and figures, animals, mosaics, landscapes, much more. Invaluable to artists and craftspeople working with textiles, wallpaper and other decorative items.

10 unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: Micromegas, by Voltaire; The Atheist's Mass, by Balzac; The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler, by Flaubert; Spleen of Paris, by Baudelaire; Minuet, by de Maupassant; The Guest, by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.

Incisive, masterfully written tales — set in Tsarist Russian milieux — reveal noted author's skills in character, nuance, and setting development. Includes The Black Monk (1894), The House with the Mezzanine (1896), The Peasants (1897), Gooseberries (1898), and The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899).

Nine gripping tales of psychological terror and the supernatural, by the undisputed master of the American Gothic horror story: The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum and 4 others.

This engrossing tale relates Ebenezer Scrooge's ghostly journeys through Christmases past, present, and future and his ultimate transformation from a harsh and grasping old miser to a charitable and compassionate human being. A perennial classic that has become as much a part of the holiday season as holly, mistletoe, and evergreen wreaths.

Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass, Selections include I Hear America Singing, I Sing the Body Electric, Song of the Open Road, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and O Captain My Captain — all reprinted from an authoritative text.

Treasury of 34 hymns, sonnets, madrigals, heroic epics (in selection) and lyrics by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, d'Annunzio and 15 others. Full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, plus biographical and critical commentary on each poet. Introduction. 21 black-and-white illustrations.