1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Anonymous

Translated with an Introduction by Andrew George. more..

2. Macbeth
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Written By: William Shakespeare

Read along with this full-cast BBC radio production in the Modern Library edition of The Tragedies of William Shakespeare, which contains the complete text of Macbeth. more..

3. Raisin in the Sun, A
Publisher: Caedmon
Written By: Lorraine Hansberry

The powerful story of an African American family. Unabridged. 2 cassettes. more..

4. The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Snorri Sturluson

The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien

Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman heroes and indomitable warrior queens. Its gods live with the tragic more..

5. A Light in the Attic
Publisher: HarperCollins
Written By: Shel Silverstein

Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:

Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...

Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face more..

6. The Dark Night of the Soul (Hodder Christian Classics)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Written By: St. John of The Cross

A 16th-century mystic, St. John of The Cross was also a Carmelite monk who helped reform the Order. In this book, he addresses pride, avarice, envy, and other human imperfections. He also provides an extended explanation of Divine love, and describes methods of conversion through prayer, submission, and purification. more..

7. You're Only Old Once
Publisher: Random House
Written By: Dr. Seuss

If laughter is the best medicine, then You’re Only Old Once! is a delightful new defense against aging. Anyone who has ever submitted to a battery of medical tests will empathize with Dr. Seuss’s Everyman as we follow him through his checkup with the experts at the Golden Years Clinic. From the initial Eyesight and Solvency Test through all the stops along Stethoscope Row to finally more..

8. The Canterbury Tales
Publisher: Vintage
Written By: Geoffrey Chaucer

David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic. more..

9. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Written By: Homer

Robert Fagles’s stunning modern-verse translation—available at last in our black-spine classics line

The Odyssey is literature’s grandest evocation of everyman’s journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer’s original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an more..

10. Divine Comedy: Purgatory
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Written By: Alighieri Dante (Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Dante's classic work, as translated by Longfellow. more..