Author: Ulrich Baer

Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin …

One of the great literary love stories of all time, Jane Eyre is also the story of a woman who speaks her truth even when this means risking everything. The orphan Jane …

Often considered the wittiest play in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest has thrilled audiences for nearly one hundred and fifty years with undiminished …

The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe’s poems and short stories, including ‘The Cask of Amontillado, ‘ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart, ‘ ‘The Fall of …

The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s short novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is a classic of Victorian gothic fiction. The story of an …

Published to unprecedented literary acclaim in 1924, the Pulitzer-winning novel So Big established Edna Ferber as one of the twentieth century’s major American …

When first published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose …

Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a …

Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly became a …

In this slim collection of ten letters, written to an aspiring poet in the early 1900s, Rilke speaks with his unique insistence about living your true, authentic life. …

Virginia Woolf considered her novel To the Lighthouse ‘easily the best of my books.’ A pathbreaking work of uncompromising and startling beauty, the 1927 novel is the …

Virginia Woolf published her only collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday, in 1919. In the book’s eight exuberant, entertaining, and happily eccentric stories, …

Stefan Zweig’s posthumously published Chess Story is the tale of a legendary chess match played on an ocean liner leaving Nazi-occupied Europe. The world champion and a …

This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes ‘The Woman Question, ‘ ‘The Bankruptcy of Capitalism, ‘ ‘Some Simple …

Notes on Democracy by enormously influential journalist and cultural critic H. L. Mencken is an incisive and astonishingly timely critique of democracy. Mencken is not …