Drama.

Four sisters come of age in a world of scraped knees and secret ambitions, where the warmth of family cushions every fall.

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Thomas De Quincey’s strange and influential memoir of addiction, dream-life, and Romantic prose remains one of the nineteenth century’s most uncanny autobiographical classics.

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A historically significant but racist novel by Thomas Dixon Jr., presented with explicit contextual framing in this DotBooks edition.

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A novel set against the granite quarries of rural New England, following lives bound to the land and the stone they cut from it.

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The six surviving comedies of Rome's most elegant playwright, rendered into plain English prose with helpful notes.

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A novel by Maria Thompson Daviess set against the contrast of country and city life, its title playing rural Kentucky against the bright lights of the stage.

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Goethe's towering drama of a scholar who bargains with the devil, rendered into English in the meters of the original.

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Shakespeare's sparkling early comedy of a king and his lords who forswear love for study, only to be undone by the arrival of a princess and her ladies.

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A collection of dramatic works gathered in a single volume, offering the pleasures of the stage on the page.

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George Bernard Shaw's sharp, funny drama of a phonetics professor who wagers he can pass a flower girl off as a duchess by remaking her speech.

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Aristophanes' riotous anti-war comedy, in which the women of Greece stage a sex strike to force their husbands to lay down arms.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe's world-shaking novel of slavery in America, whose portrait of human suffering and dignity helped galvanise the abolitionist cause and change the course of a

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A novel of a young woman seeking a life of her own beyond the expected roles of marriage and comfort.

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Alexandre Dumas fils turns an affair between a courtesan and a young bourgeois lover into a tragic novel of love, sacrifice, class judgment, and social performance.

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A witty Shakespearean comedy of exile, disguise, pastoral courtship, and reinvention in the Forest of Arden.

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Christopher Marlowe's mighty tragedy of the scholar who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power.

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Shakespeare’s moonlit comedy mixes lovers, fairies, artisans, and theatrical mischief in one of the most durable plays of enchantment and confusion.

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Prosper Mérimée’s compact novella of obsession, freedom, jealousy, and fatal desire gave the world one of literature’s most enduring heroines.

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Sophocles' towering tragedy of the king who unknowingly fulfills a terrible prophecy, here in a rhyming English verse translation with explanatory notes.

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Henrik Ibsen’s breakthrough drama turns a bourgeois marriage into one of modern literature’s sharpest studies of freedom, performance, and self-respect.

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Oscar Wilde’s sparkling social comedy turns false names, courtship, and perfect manners into one of the sharpest and funniest plays in English.

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Herman Melville's haunting final work.

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Edith Wharton's stark, unforgettable tragedy of thwarted desire.

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A Scottish general’s ambition curdles into tyranny after a prophecy twists his fate.

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Two star-crossed lovers ignite a forbidden passion that threatens to consume their warring families.

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A grieving prince spirals into doubt and delay after a ghostly accusation.

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