Dolce Stil Publishing: 21 books

Catherine Morland loves to escape into the world of the Gothic novel. But when she travels to the fashionable city of Bath for the first time she allows her imagination to run away with her. In Bath she rejects the advances of the uncouth John Thorpe and falls in love with the witty Henry Tilney....

The Last of the Mohicans is a classic of American literature set during the French and Indian wars of the Eighteenth Century. The action centers on the the scout Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook as they strive to save the Munro sisters from Magua, a Huron renegade. The novel was one of the most popular in English in its time and remains widely read in American literature courses.

Madame Bovary, published in 1856, is Gustave Flaubert's most famous novel. It is a tale of adultery and betrayal and shocked readers when it was first published, even resulting in a trial for obscenity. The story focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life.

Essential Reading for Students of Medieval Literature The Pardoner's Tale is one of the most interesting of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The tale on its own is a neatly told exemplum on the dangers of greed, but the tale and its prologue also casts a light on one of Chaucer's most interesting...

What Men Live By and Other Tales contains four short stories by Leo Tolstoy. This collection of stories was originally published in 1885 and as well as “What Men Live By” also includes “The Three Questions“, “The Coffee-House of Surat”, and “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” The stories...

Essential Reading for Students of Medieval Literature This edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is translated into modern English by Jessie L. Weston and includes annotations on the text as well as an essay on Alliterative Style by Mark Lord. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is one of...

The Historia Regum Britanniae (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c. 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning...