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Musing on the nature of love and aging, "The Wild Swans at Coole" finds Yeats asking what will happen when, after so many years of admiring the singular beauty of swans, he awakes "some day / To find they have flown away?" The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of elegies, lyrics, poetic dialogues, and political poems by W.B. Yeats.

In 1740, Jamaican Maroons-descendants of Africans who escaped slavery and fled to the mountains-signed a treaty with colonial authorities that made it even more difficult for runaway slaves to survive. In the 1770s, a runaway known as Three-Fingered Jack became infamous for defying the British government. The Life and Exploits of Three-Finger'd Jack is a book by William Burdett.

In his third collection of poems, Yeats proves himself a poet of many voices, of common emotions and uncommon meaning, of veritable Ireland of the mind. The Wind Among the Reeds contains some of the poet's earliest masterpieces, including "The Song of Wandering Aengus," "The Song of the Old Mother," and "The Secret Rose."

An explicit account of one of the most speculated events to occur on the open seas. The Bounty Mutiny examines the notorious voyage of the HMS Bounty under Commanding Lieutenant William Bligh. With so many theories about its origins and betrayal, this offers an insightful look at the fateful trip.

Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems with bold and competing motifs. One of William Blake's most celebrated works, it tackles purity and corruption as they relate to worldly living. Published in 1789 and 1794, each set offers a vibrant commentary on nature and morality.

As a young boy, Vathek was thrust into power as the ninth caliph of the Abassides. Much was expected of him, but little was done to train him in the ways of decency and diplomacy. Competitive and quick to anger, Vathek imprisons anyone perceived to slight him. One day, this behavior proves his downfall. Vathek is a novel by William Beckford.

Examining and comparing Christmas traditions of the 19th century, Old Christmas is a five-part narrative on Christmas celebrations, starting with a reflection on the holiday and concluding with a description of Christmas dinner. Washington Irving's Old Christmas is a combination of narrative essay and short fiction, both informative and entertaining as it describes a picturesque Christmas in England.

A novelist struggling with writer's block summons the Spirit of Romance, who reveals an unfortunate truth: his characters are wayward souls assigned to play their polar opposites for eternity. Soon, the characters come to life, defying the author's commands and making his life as miserable as possible. A Sensation Novel is a comic musical by W. S. Gilbert.

"How silent the street was! Not a soul was stirring, and yet it was high-noon-Wall Street? Broadway?" It is afternoon in Manhattan when the comet falls from the sky. In an instant, the city is filled with toxic fumes. Two survivors emerge: a Black man and a white woman. The Comet is a story by W. E. B. Du Bois.

"What makes the cornfield smile [...] Such are my themes." Part history, part agricultural guide, part celebration of human life, The Georgics of Virgil are a landmark work of literature from Rome's most vital poet. Following the tradition of didactic poetry, Virgil meditates on agriculture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping in order to illuminate humanity's search for order in the universe.

In need of a well-paying commission, a painter agrees to make portraits of William and Alice Okehurst, a wealthy English couple. At their rural estate, he becomes unsettled by William's jealousy and Alice's uncanny resemblance to an ancestor from the 17th century. A Phantom Lover is a story of supernatural horror by Vernon Lee.

While staying on a farm in rural Kent, Malory becomes intrigued with the beautiful, mysterious Ruth Pennistan. Intent on discovering her secret, he gains the trust of her father, who reveals that Ruth is the daughter of a Spanish dancer. Inspired by her own family history, Heritage is a novel by Vita Sackville-West.

"All her youth is gone, her beautiful youth outworn, / Daughter of tarn and tor, the moors that were once her home / No longer know her step..." Although she is more widely known for her relationship with Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West was a gifted writer whose works entertain, delight, and surprise. Orchard and Vineyard is her fifth poetry collection.

Born to a family of Bengali Christians, Toru Dutt learned English, French, and Sanskrit at a young age. Although her life was tragically cut short, she produced a body of work-novels and poetry in translation-that earned her acclaim from readers and critics around the world. Bianca, or, The Young Spanish Maiden is a story of tragedy, romance, and redemption.

A Genoese sea captain and a Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller discuss the organization of a perfect city. Designed with an impregnable series of seven concentric walls, located in an ideal climate, and built on a hill, its people live in a society dedicated to communal values. The City of the Sun is a work of utopian fiction by Tommaso Campanella.

A reverend changes his religious affiliation to thwart the courtship of his daughter by a curate. The Vicar of Bray, by Sydney Grundy and Edward Solomon, was initially considered controversial due to its depiction of the church. It follows one man as he uses religion to exploit those around him.

In the harsh streets of New York City, a young girl is brought down by poverty, addiction, violence, and gossip. Rejected by her family and scorned by her community, Maggie is forced to do what she must to survive. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is a haunting novella by Stephen Crane, an icon of American literature.

A groundbreaking account of a formerly enslaved woman's journey to freedom. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the tumultuous life story of Isabella Baumfree who was later known as Sojourner Truth. She details her escape from bondage and travels across the country as a preacher, abolitionist and women's rights activist.

A young Muscogee woman becomes a teacher at a local mission school. There, she befriends a white woman whose brother she eventually marries. The couple has a child, but they are soon struck by the horrors of the Wounded Knee Massacre, and adopt an orphaned Lakota girl. Wynema: A Child of the Forest is a novel by Sophia Alice Callahan.

Feeling as though the history of the America's indigenous people was being erased, Simon Pokagon took to pen to give voice to an increasingly forgotten race. Beginning with his famous speech, "The Red Man's Rebuke," The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon collects six articles and legends from and about the Potawatomi tribe, originally published on the bark of the white birch tree.

Tackling themes of identity, death, and love, An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales addresses significant topics while entertaining with intricate settings and intriguing characters. An Arrow in a Sunbeam and Other Tales is a collection of American regionalism short fiction. Though originally written for children, this collection is enjoyable to all, stunning with its beautiful descriptions and masterful prose. .

"O Bird of Time on your fruitful bough / What are the songs you sing?" Lyrical and buoyant, sensitive to the natural world, Naidu's verses meditate on existence, time, love, and death. A poet of truth and beauty, she praises the everyday and imperfect, sharing her gift with us all. The Bird of Time is a poetry collection by Sarojini Naidu.

The Civil War has come and gone, leaving countless formerly enslaved African Americans to rebuild a land destroyed in its effort to preserve its immoral institutions. On John Vance's plantation, many of these people remain to work for their former master. Among them, Enoch stands out. Hope's Highway: A Novel is a historical novel by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming.

"I hear the talk of the white man's hope / [...] / But never a word of the black man's hope / Do I hear as time doth roll." In these poems of identity and love, Fleming proves herself a poet of humanity, in all its shapes and shades. Clouds and Sunshine is a poetry collection by Sarah Lee Brown Fleming.

Through a heavy oaken door, worn with age, the reader enters the home of Mrs. Brewster, a carpenter's daughter whose marriage to a merchant is characterized by unhappiness and abuse. As her daughter prepares to marry a wealthy man, she dreams of a better life. True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life is a novel by Sarah E. Farro.

"Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing / Where the starlike sea gulls soar; / The sun was keen and the foam was blowing / High on the rocky shore." Capturing the sights and sounds of nature, Teasdale depicts the highs and lows of both love and the human experience. Love Songs is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

"What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?" Content to depict birdsong and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poems elide the self in order to celebrate the creative powers of poem and world. Flame and Shadow is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

With his second collection, North of Boston, Robert Frost invites the reader to enter his world: "I'm going out to clean the pasture spring...You come too." Invoking the tradition of pastoral poetry, Frost sets himself apart as a writer familiar with the work required of rural life while composing a plainspoken music capable of "mak[ing] gaps even two can pass abreast."

The friends of Dr. Henry Jekyll are troubled by his mysterious relation to a new acquaintance, the elusive and darkly menacing Edward Hyde. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson traces their investigation into the kindly Jekyll's inexplicable connection to the brutal Hyde, encountering an eerie mystery and culminating in one of the most celebrated climaxes in literature.

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood." These words, from "The Road Not Taken," form arguably the most famous single line in all American poetry. Taking as his theme the fine line between will and fate, Frost opens his third collection, Mountain Interval, with an undeniable masterpiece, setting the stage for the poems to come, for their attentive and plainspoken music.