Lamplight Classics
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
The novel that practically invented science fiction — the creature, the guilt, and the limits of human ambition. Our English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
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Lamplight Classics Beloved classics of world literature, in carefully annotated English editions.
Lamplight Classics
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
The best-loved comedy of manners in English literature — Elizabeth Bennet, Mr. Darcy, and the duel between pride and prejudice. English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
The pact between eternal beauty and a soul that rots in the portrait. Oscar Wilde's only novel, in our annotated English edition — Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
Dracula
Bram Stoker
The epistolary novel that founded the modern vampire myth — Count Dracula, Van Helsing, and Gothic terror told through letters and diaries. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The great novel of the Jazz Age: Jay Gatsby, his parties, and the obsession with an impossible love — the American Dream turned inside out. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
The girl who falls down the rabbit hole into a world of upside-down logic — the Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, and Lewis Carroll's brilliant nonsense. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
The twelve adventures that immortalized literature's greatest detective — Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, pure deduction in Victorian London. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
The orphan who refuses to bow: passion, dignity, and secrets at Thornfield Hall — one of the greatest English novels. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics series.
Lamplight Classics
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
On the wild Yorkshire moors, the foundling Heathcliff and the wilful Catherine forge a love that turns to obsession and revenge. Emily Brontë's only novel is a storm of a book — fierce, haunted, unlike anything before it. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy — come of age in a New England home while their father is away at war. Louisa May Alcott's warm, enduring classic of family, ambition and first love has been cherished for generations. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
A respected London doctor and a monstrous stranger seem bound by a terrible secret. Stevenson's chilling fable of the divided self gave the world a byword for the darkness hidden inside us all. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
A Kansas cyclone sweeps little Dorothy and her dog Toto over the rainbow into a land of impossible colour. To reach the Emerald City she follows the yellow brick road — gathering a Scarecrow, a Tin Woodman and a Cowardly Lion. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle
For generations the Baskervilles have died strangely on the lonely moors of Devon, hunted by a spectral hound of an old family curse. Sherlock Holmes, who believes in nothing supernatural, sends Dr. Watson into the fog to learn where the legend ends and the murderer begins. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
On Christmas Eve, the miser Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by his dead partner's ghost and three spirits who walk him through his past, present and future. Dickens's immortal tale of redemption has defined the spirit of Christmas for nearly two centuries. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Aboard the whaler Pequod, the sailor Ishmael is swept into Captain Ahab's furious quest to hunt down Moby Dick, the white whale that took the captain's leg. A sea-adventure and a meditation on obsession, nature, and fate, Melville's masterpiece stands among the greatest novels ever written. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan Doyle
A man is found dead in an empty house off Brixton Road, one word scrawled in blood on the wall. Scotland Yard turns to the strange new lodger at 221B Baker Street, who reads a life from the mud on your boots — the case that first paired Dr. Watson with the world's only consulting detective. Our annotated, illustrated English edition, Lamplight Classics.
Lamplight Classics
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells
Cylinders fall on the English countryside, and out of them rise Martian machines that turn armies to ash. Published in 1898, the novel that invented the alien invasion — and used it to turn colonialism inside out. Our annotated, illustrated English edition.
Lamplight Classics
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
A Victorian inventor travels to the year 802,701 and finds humanity split into two species. Published in 1895, the book that founded time travel as a genre — and used it as class critique. Our annotated, illustrated English edition.
Lantern Wisdom Classics Ancient wisdom and philosophy texts, in annotated English editions with introduction, notes and glossary.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The private notebook of a Roman emperor who commanded the largest empire in the world and, at night, wrote himself reminders on how to keep his head. Our annotated English edition, with introduction, notes, and a Greek glossary — Lantern Wisdom Classics.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
Tao Te Ching
Laozi
The 81 chapters attributed to Laozi on the Tao — the Way — and on wu wei, action without forcing. Our annotated English edition, based on James Legge's classic translation, modernized, with introduction, notes, and glossary — Lantern Wisdom Classics.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
Life is not short — we waste it. In De Brevitate Vitae, Seneca argues that time is the one possession you never get back, and teaches how to spend it on purpose. Our annotated English edition, with introduction, notes, and glossary — Lantern Wisdom Classics.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
Bhagavad Gita
Vyasa
As two armies line up for battle, a warrior lets his bow fall. The Gita stages Arjuna and Krishna on duty and on action without attachment to its fruit. Our annotated English edition, based on Edwin Arnold's verse translation — Lantern Wisdom Classics.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
The Apology of Socrates
Plato
The most famous defence in history: a man who chose death over giving up thought. Accused of corrupting the youth in 399 BC, Socrates does not beg — he defends the examined life. Our annotated English edition, based on Benjamin Jowett's translation.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
The Dhammapada
The Buddha
The "verses of the path": the most widely read collection of teachings attributed to the Buddha, on the mind, on desire, and on the path that ends suffering. Our annotated English edition, based on F. Max Müller's translation — Lantern Wisdom Classics.
Lantern Wisdom Classics
The Enchiridion
Epictetus
The pocket manual of Stoicism, in an annotated English edition. Epictetus never wrote a word: his student Arrian took notes and drew from them 52 short chapters, built to be remembered at the moment something is happening to you.
Brazilian Psychological Classics Machado de Assis and the Brazilian psychological novel, now in English.
Brazilian Psychological Classics
Dom Casmurro
Machado de Assis
Brazilian literature's greatest classic of jealousy and doubt — Bentinho, Capitu, and the question that is never answered. Our English edition, Brazilian Psychological Classics series.
Brazilian Psychological Classics
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis
The dead narrator who recounts his own life with merciless irony — one of the most inventive novels ever written. Our English edition, Brazilian Psychological Classics series.
Brazilian Psychological Classics
The Alienist
Machado de Assis
The novella where a doctor commits an entire town to the asylum — a sharp satire on madness, science and power. Our English edition, Brazilian Psychological Classics series.
Science & Study Didactic classics of science, made approachable.
Science & Study
Calculus Made Easy
Silvanus P. Thompson
The classic that teaches calculus without terror, in the English original — the beloved 1910 manual by Silvanus Thompson.
Foundations of Engineering Self-study engineering course books for technical school, starting with statics — free-body diagrams, moments and trusses.
Foundations of Engineering
Forces in Balance
Williams F. Fontinele
Two cable pullers rated at 3,000 newtons do not add up to 6,000 once the cables open out. This course book teaches statics from what a force is to a truss solved member by member, for people who study alone, with no instructor beside them.
Foundations of Mathematics Self-study math refreshers for adults going back to school, starting with arithmetic — fractions, decimals, ratio, proportion and percent.
Foundations of Mathematics
Where Math Begins
Williams F. Fontinele
You knew this once. This refresher picks arithmetic up at the first step — which operation is resolved first, and why — and climbs to powers, roots and scientific notation, with 102 worked exercises and an answer key.
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