A translation of the first epic poem in the English language
Kim (1901) is Rudyard Kipling’s story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret ...
After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean has difficulty adjusting to the outside world, which scorns and shuns him
Old and ill, General Simon Bolivar reexamines his life–reliving his campaigns, recalling his romances, and revealing himself as a lover, libertine, and fighter–during a seven-month voyage down the Magdalena ...
