If a new translation of Herodotus does not justify itself, it will

hardly be justified in a preface; therefore the question whether it was needed may be left here without discussion. The aim of the translator has been above all things faithfulness -faithfulness to the manner of expression and to the structure of sentences, as well as to the meaning of the Author. At the same time it is conceived that the freedom and variety of Herodotus is not always best reproduced by such severe consistency of rendering as is perhaps desirable in the case of the Epic writers before and the philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be

reproduced in the form of archaisms of language

Classic novel, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: “Alexandre Dumas, pere (French for “father”, akin to ‘Senior’ in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (July 24, 1802 – December 5, 1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized, and he also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent.”

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200+ classics,
8 volumes
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Linked Contents.

CONTENTS (partial list)
VOL. I
ABOUT, EDMOND, King of the Mountains
AINSWORTH, HARRISON, Tower of London
ANDERSEN, HANS, Improvisatore
APULEIUS, The Golden Ass
ARABIAN NIGHTS
AUCASSIN AND NICOLETTE
AUERBACH, BERTHOLD, On the Height
AUSTEN, JANE, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion
BALZAC, HONORÉ DE, Eugénie Grandet, Old Goriot, Magic Skin, Quest of the Absolute
BECKFORD, WILLIAM, History of the Caliph Vathek
BEHN, APHRA, Oroonoko
BERGERAC, CYRANO DE, Voyage to the Moon
BJORNSON, BJORNSTJERNE, Arne, In God’s Way
BLACK, WILLIAM, Daughter of Heth
BLACKMORE, R.D., Lorna Doone
BOCCACCIO, Decameron

…

VOL. VIII
SCOTT, SIR WALTER (Continued), Quentin Durward, Rob Roy, Talisman
SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, Frankenstein
SIDNEY, SIR PHILIP, Arcadia
SMOLLET, TOBIAS, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle
STAËL, MME. DE, Corinne
STENDHAL (HENRI BEYLE), Chartreuse of Parma
STERNE, LAURENCE, Tristram Shandy
STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER, Uncle Tom’s Cabin
SUE, EUGÈNE, Mysteries of Paris
SWIFT, JONATHAN, Gulliver’s Travels
THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE, Newcomes, Virginians, Vanity Fair
TOLSTOY, COUNT LYOF N, Anna Karenina
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY, The Warden, Barchester Towers
TURGENEV, IVAN, Fathers and Sons, A Nest of Nobles, Smoke
VERNE, JULES, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
WALPOLE, HORACE, Castle of Otranto
ZOLA, ÉMILE, Drink

Goethe’s masterpiece in the original German. According to Wikipedia: “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer. George Eliot called him “Germany’s greatest man of letters… and the last true polymath to walk the earth.” Goethe’s works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, humanism, and science. Goethe’s magnum opus, lauded as one of the peaks of world literature, is the two-part drama Faust. Goethe’s other well-known literary works include his numerous poems, the Bildungsroman Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and the epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther.”

The first four volumes of Proust’s masterpiece in a single file, in the original French. Du côté de chez Swann, 1913; A L’Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs, 1919 ; Le Côté de Guermantes, 1920-1921; and Sodome et Gommorrhe, 1921-1922. According to Wikipedia: “Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, essayist, and critic, best known as the author of À la recherche du temps perdu (in English, In Search of Lost Time; earlier translated as Remembrance of Things Past), a monumental work of twentieth-century fiction published in seven parts from 1913 to 1927… Begun in 1909, À la recherche du temps perdu consists of seven volumes spanning some 3,200 pages and teeming with more than 2,000 literary characters. Graham Greene called Proust the “greatest novelist of the 20th century”, and W. Somerset Maugham called the novel the “greatest fiction to date.” Proust died before he was able to complete his revision of the drafts and proofs of the final volumes, the last three of which were published posthumously and edited by his brother, Robert.”