58 Ebooks by Ulrich Baer
Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Frankl …
One of the great literary love stories of all time, Jane Eyre is also the story of a woman who speaks her truth even when this means risking everything. The orphan Jane en …
Often considered the wittiest play in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest has thrilled audiences for nearly one hundred and fifty years with undiminished …
The Essential Poe gathers the most thrilling and enthralling of Poe’s poems and short stories, including ‘The Cask of Amontillado, ‘ ‘The Tell-Tale Heart, ‘ ‘The Fall of t …
The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson’s short novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is a classic of Victorian gothic fiction. The story of an upst …
Published to unprecedented literary acclaim in 1924, the Pulitzer-winning novel So Big established Edna Ferber as one of the twentieth century’s major American storyteller …
When first published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises changed American literature forever. Hemingway follows a disillusioned group of expats in post-World War I Europe whose re …
Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a v …
Frederick Douglass, the renowned nineteenth-century orator, editor, publisher, and statesman, was born into slavery in Maryland and escaped in 1838. He quickly became a na …
In this slim collection of ten letters, written to an aspiring poet in the early 1900s, Rilke speaks with his unique insistence about living your true, authentic life. Cou …
Virginia Woolf considered her novel To the Lighthouse ‘easily the best of my books.’ A pathbreaking work of uncompromising and startling beauty, the 1927 novel is the grea …
Virginia Woolf published her only collection of short fiction, Monday or Tuesday, in 1919. In the book’s eight exuberant, entertaining, and happily eccentric stories, Wool …
Stefan Zweig’s posthumously published Chess Story is the tale of a legendary chess match played on an ocean liner leaving Nazi-occupied Europe. The world champion and a ma …
This newly revised and corrected translation of Lafargue’s classic The Right to Be Lazy includes ‘The Woman Question, ‘ ‘The Bankruptcy of Capitalism, ‘ ‘Some Simple Socia …
Notes on Democracy by enormously influential journalist and cultural critic H. L. Mencken is an incisive and astonishingly timely critique of democracy. Mencken is not opp …
Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel Orlando is her most entertaining and exciting book. The mock biography recounts the life of a sixteenth-century nobleman who ends up as a woman …
Ralph Waldo Emerson transformed America by writing in an utterly unique, personal, and insistently optimistic voice about matters that concern us to this day: our lives al …