The Elizabethan dramatist Thomas Dekker was a versatile and prolific writer, whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists. Of the surviving plays that are entirely Dekker’s work, the best-known are ‘The Shoemakers Holiday’ (1600) and ‘The Honest Whore, Part 2’ (1630), which are typical of his work in their use of the moralistic tone of traditional drama. His ear for colloquial speech served him well in his vibrant portrayals of daily life in London and his works are characterised for their boisterousness nature and an inimitable mixture of realistic detail and romanticised plot. Dekker was also a writer of pamphlets, celebrated for their lively depictions of London life, vividly charting the city’s traumatic times. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Dekker’s complete dramatic works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and masques, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dekker’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 27 plays, with individual contents tables * Features many rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the plays were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare pamphlets available in no other collection * Special criticism section, with two essays evaluating Dekker’s contribution to history of the theatre * Features two bonus biographies – discover Dekker’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Solo Plays The Shoemaker’s Holiday (1599) Old Fortunatus (1600) Lust’s Dominion (c. 1600) The Weakest Goeth to the Wall (1600) The Noble Spanish Soldier (c. 1602) The Whore of Babylon (1607) If This Be Not a Good Play, the Devil is in It (1611) Troja-Nova Triumphans (1612) The Welsh Ambassador (1623) London’s Tempe (1629) The Honest Whore, Part II (1630) Match Me in London (1631) The Wonder of a Kingdom (1634) The Collaborative Plays Satiro-Mastix (1601) Blurt, Master Constable (1602) Patient Grissil (1603) The Honest Whore, Part I (1604) The Magnificent Entertainment (1604) The Family of Love (c. 1607) Northward Ho (1607) Westward Ho (1607) The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyatt (1607) The Roaring Girl (1610) The Witch of Edmonton (1621) The Virgin-Martyr (1622) The Sun’s Darling (1624) The Bloody Banquet (1639) The Prose Selected Pamphlets The Criticism Thomas Dekker by Algernon Charles Swinburne Dekker by Andrew Lang The Biographies Thomas Dekker by Ernest Rhys Thomas Dekker by Arthur Henry Bullen ‎ Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The Elizabethan playwright, poet and satirist, Thomas Nashe was the author of ‘The Unfortunate Traveller’, the first picaresque novel of English literature. His masterpiece was ‘Pierce Penniless, His Supplication to the Divell’, a prose satire that was among the most popular of the Elizabethan pamphlets. Employing a free and extemporaneous prose style, full of colloquialisms, neologisms and fantastic idiosyncrasies, Nashe entertains the reader with a story in which immediate entertainment is favoured over narrative structure. Complex, witty and colourfully anecdotal, Nashe’s work is as brash and bitingly sharp today as when it was first penned over four centuries ago. For the first time, this eBook presents Nashe’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Nashe’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the plays, poetry and pamphlets, with individual contents tables * Rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Scarce pamphlets available in no other collection * Includes Nashe’s poetry * Features two biographies – discover Nashe’s Elizabethan world * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Novel The Unfortunate Traveller (1594) The Plays Summer’s Last Will and Testament (1592) The Tragedie of Dido, Queene of Carthage (1594) The Poetry The Choise of Valentines (c. 1593) Other Verses Harvey-Nashe Controversy Pamphlets Strange Newes, of the Intercepting Certaine Letters (1592) Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem (1593) Have with You to Saffron-Walden (1596) Other Pamphlets The Anatomy of Absurdity (1589) A Countercuffe Given to Martin Junio (1589) The Returne of Pasquill (1589) Preface to Greene’s Menaphon (1589) An Almond for a Parrot (1590) The First Parte of Pasquils Apologie (1590) A Wonderfull strange and miraculous Astrologicall Prognostication (1591) Preface to Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella (1591) Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Divell (1592) The Terrors of the Night (1594) Nashe’s Lenten Stuffe (1599) The Biographies An Essay on the Life and Writings of Thomas Nash (1892) by Edmund Gosse Thomas Nashe (1900) by Sidney Lee

The English Jacobean and Caroline playwright, Philip Massinger was celebrated for his comedic genius, finely plotted plays, social realism and incisive satire. Following the death of Shakespeare in 1616 and Fletcher in 1625, Massinger became the leading playwright of the King's Men's. His most popular and influential play, ‘A New Way to Pay Old Debts’ expresses a timeless indignation at economic oppression and social disorder, while ‘The City Madam’ deals with similar evils, combining naturalistic and symbolic modes. For the first time in publishing history, this eBook presents Massinger’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare plays and poetry, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Massinger’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All 38 plays, with individual contents tables * Features many rare plays appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes Nicholas Rowe’s ‘The Fair Penitent’, the 1632 adaptation of Massinger’s ‘The Fatal Dowry’ * Excellent formatting of the plays * Useful Glossary of Jacobean Language * Massinger’s rare poetry, available in no other collection * Easily locate the poems and scenes you want to read * Features two biographies, including Cruickshank’s seminal study – explore Massinger’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of Elizabethan and Jacobean playwrights CONTENTS: The Solo Plays The Maid of Honour (c. 1621) The Duke of Milan (c. 1621) The Unnatural Combat (c. 1621) The Bondman (1623) The Renegado (1624) The Parliament of Love (1624) A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625) The Roman Actor (1626) The Great Duke of Florence (1627) The Picture (1629) The Emperor of the East (1631) Believe as You List (c. 1631) The City Madam (1632) The Guardian (1633) The Bashful Lover (1636) Collaborations with John Fletcher Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1619) The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619) A Very Woman (c. 1620) The Custom of the Country (c. 1620) The Double Marriage (c. 1620) The False One (c. 1620) The Prophetess (1622) The Sea Voyage (1622) The Spanish Curate (1622) The Lovers’ Progress; or, The Wandering Lovers (1623) The Elder Brother (c. 1625) Collaborations with John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont Thierry and Theodoret (c. 1607) The Coxcomb (1608) Beggars’ Bush (c. 1612) Love’s Cure (c. 1612) Collaborations with John Fletcher and Nathan Field The Honest Man’s Fortune (1613) The Queen of Corinth (c. 1616) The Knight of Malta (c. 1619) Collaboration with Nathan Field The Fatal Dowry (c. 1619) The Fair Penitent (1632) by Nicholas Rowe Collaboration with John Fletcher, John Ford, and William Rowley/John Webster The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626) Collaboration with John Fletcher, Ben Jonson and George Chapman Rollo Duke of Normandy, or The Bloody Brother (c. 1616) Collaboration with Thomas Dekker The Virgin Martyr (1620) Collaboration with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley The Old Law (c. 1615) The Poetry Miscellaneous Poems The Biographies Life of Massinger (1830) Philip Massinger (1920) by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank Glossary of Jacobean Language Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

The macabre plays of the Jacobean dramatist John Webster still retain the same raw power to shock audiences today, with his ‘The White Devil’ and ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ being widely recognised as masterpieces of seventeenth century theatre. For the first time in digital publishing, this comprehensive eBook presents Webster’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Webster’s life and works * Concise introductions to the plays and other texts * ALL 11 plays, with many rare texts * Also includes the rare spurious plays, first time in digital print * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original Jacobean texts * Excellent formatting of the plays * Easily locate the scenes or acts you want to read with special contents tables * Includes Webster’s complete poetry and other works - spend hours exploring the author’s works * Special criticism section, with three essays evaluating Webster’s contribution to Jacobean literature * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Plays SIR THOMAS WYATT WESTWARD HO NORTHWARD HO THE WHITE DEVIL THE DUCHESS OF MALFI THE DEVIL’S LAW-CASE ANYTHING FOR A QUIET LIFE A CURE FOR A CUCKOLD MONUMENTS OF HONOUR THE FAIR MAID OF THE INN APPIUS AND VIRGINIA The Disputed Plays THE THRACIAN WONDER THE WEAKEST GOETH TO THE WALL The Other Works TO MY KIND FRIEND, MA. AN. MUNDY ODE PREFIXED TO STEPEHN HARRISON’S ‘ARCHES OF TRIUMPH’, 1604 INDUCTION AND ADDITIONS TO THE 3RD EDITION OF MARSTONS ‘THE MALCONTENT’, 1604 TO HIS BELOVED FRIEND, MASTER THOMAS HEYWOOD A MONUMENTAL COLUMN NEW CHARACTERS TO HIS INDUSTRIOUS FRIEND, MASTER HENRY COCKERAM VERSES ACCOMPANYING THE PORTRAIT ENGRAVING OF ‘THE PROGENY OF THE MOST RENOWNED PRINCE JAMES’ c.1633 The Criticism INTRODUCTION TO JOHN WEBSTER by William Hazlitt JOHN WEBSTER by Algernon Charles Swinburne THE THIRD DRAMATIC PERIOD by George Saintsbury Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, the English-born political activist Thomas Paine was a philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. He created two of the most influential pamphlets of the American Revolution, inspiring the rebels in 1776 to declare independence. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. The powerful pamphlet ‘Common Sense’ is the all-time bestselling American title, catering for the rebellious demand for independence from Great Britain. This comprehensive eBook presents Paine’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Paine’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major works * All the books and pamphlets, with individual contents tables * Features rare later collected pamphlets, poems and fragments appearing in the ‘Minor Works’ section * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special criticism section, with five essays evaluating Paine’s contribution to literature * Features three biographies, including Conway’s seminal study of the great man - discover Paine’s intriguing life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Books Common Sense The American Crisis Letter Addressed to the Abbé Raynal on the Affairs of North America Rights of Man The Age of Reason Dissertation on the First Principles of Government Miscellaneous Works Minor Works The Criticism Thomas Paine: The Apostle of Liberty by John E. Remsburg Thomas Paine by J. Watts A Vindication of Thomas Paine by Robert G. Ingersoll Thomas Paine by Robert G. Ingersoll Thomas Paine by Augustine Birrell The Biographies Life of Thomas Paine by Richard Carlile The Life of Thomas Paine by Moncure Daniel Conway Thomas Paine by Leslie Stephen Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

A prominent dramatist of the Caroline period, John Ford was notable for writing revenge tragedies featuring scenes of austere beauty, insight into human passions and grand poetic diction. His masterpiece ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore concerns controversial themes that engage audiences to this day. Ford also wrote comedies, history plays and tragicomedies, distinguished by highly wrought blank verse and tragically frustrated characters, whose intense desires are frustrated by circumstance. These dramas have cemented his reputation as the most important playwright during the reign of King Charles I. This eBook presents John Ford’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ford’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major plays * All the dramas (collaborations and solo plays), with individual contents tables * Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes Sir Robert Howard’s play ‘The Great Favourite’, believed by some to be based on a lost Ford play * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare poetry and prose works * Includes a special ‘Glossary of Jacobean Language’, helping comprehension of the language * Features a bonus biography – discover Ford’s world * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Collaborative Plays The Laws of Candy (1620) The Witch of Edmonton (1621) The Welsh Ambassador (1623) The Spanish Gypsy (1623) The Sun’s Darling (1624) The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626) The Solo Plays The Queen (1627) The Lover’s Melancholy (1628) The Broken Heart (1629) ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1631) Love’s Sacrifice (1632) Perkin Warbeck (1633) The Fancies Chaste and Noble (1636) The Lady’s Trial (1638) The Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lerma by Sir Robert Howard (1668) The Poetry Fame’s Memorial (1606) The Monarchs Meeting (1606) A Funerall Elegye (1612) Christ’s Bloody Sweat (1613) Shall I Die? (c. 1635) The Prose Honor Triumphant (1606) The Golden Mean (1613) A Line of Life (1620) The Biography John Ford by Adolphus William Ward Glossary of Jacobean Language Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

Regarded by many as the most comprehensive anthology of all time, ‘The Harvard Classics’ was first published in 1909 under the supervision of the Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. An esteemed academic, Eliot had argued that the elements of a liberal education could be gained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. The publisher P. F. Collier challenged Eliot to make good on this statement and ‘Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf’ was the result. Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled ‘The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction’, offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the ‘The Harvard Classics’ comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century. This comprehensive eBook presents the complete anthology, with Eliot’s original introductions, numerous illustrations, rare texts and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to life and works of the authors featured in the anthology * All 51 volumes of ‘The Harvard Classics’ * Eliot’s original concise introductions * Eliot’s general introduction to the anthology (Volume 50) * The complete 20 volume edition of ‘The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction’ * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Major works include the original illustrations that accompanied the text * Easily locate the chapters and sections you want to read with individual contents tables * Precise arrangement of texts into the original anthology order * A veritable digital library comprised in a single eBook! Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see the full contents - too many titles to list fully here. CONTENTS: Vol. 1: FRANKLIN, WOOLMAN, PENN Vol. 2. PLATO, EPICTETUS, MARCUS AURELIUS Vol. 3. BACON, MILTON’S PROSE, THOS. BROWNE Vol. 4. COMPLETE POEMS IN ENGLISH, MILTON Vol. 5. ESSAYS AND ENGLISH TRAITS, EMERSON Vol. 6. POEMS AND SONGS, BURNS Vol. 7. CONFESSIONS OF ST. AUGUSTINE, IMITATION OF CHRIST Vol. 8. NINE GREEK DRAMAS Vol. 9. LETTERS AND TREATISES OF CICERO AND PLINY Vol. 10. WEALTH OF NATIONS, ADAM SMITH Vol. 11. ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DARWIN Vol. 12. PLUTARCH’S LIVES Vol. 13. AENEID, VIRGIL Vol. 14. DON QUIXOTE, PART 1, CERVANTES Vol. 15. PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, DONNE & HERBERT, BUNYAN, WALTON Vol. 16. THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS Vol. 17. FOLKLORE AND FABLE, AESOP, GRIMM, ANDERSON Vol. 18. MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA Vol. 19. FAUST, EGMONT, ETC. DOCTOR FAUSTUS, GOETHE, MARLOWE Vol. 20. THE DIVINE COMEDY, DANTE Vol. 21. I PROMESSI SPOSI, MANZONI Vol. 22. THE ODYSSEY, HOMER Vol. 23. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, DANA Vol. 24. ON THE SUBLIME, FRENCH REVOLUTION, ETC., BURKE Vol. 25. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, ETC., ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES, J.S. MILL, T. CARLYLE Vol. 26. CONTINENTAL DRAMA Vol. 27. ENGLISH ESSAYS: SIDNEY TO MACAULAY Vol. 28. ESSAYS: ENGLISH AND AMERICAN Vol. 29. VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE, DARWIN Vol. 30. FARADAY, HELMHOLTZ, KELVIN, NEWCOMB, ETC Vol. 31. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, BENVENUTO CELLINI Vol. 32. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS Vol. 33. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS Vol. 34. FRENCH AND ENGLISH PHILOSOPHERS Vol. 35. CHRONICLE AND ROMANCE Vol. 36. MACHIAVELLI, MORE, LUTHER Vol. 37. LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME Vol. 38. HARVEY, JENNER, LISTER, PASTEUR Vol. 39. PREFACES AND PROLOGUES Vol. 40. ENGLISH POETRY 1 Vol. 41. ENGLISH POETRY 2 Vol. 42. ENGLISH POETRY 3 Vol. 43. AMERICAN HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS Vol. 44. SACRED WRITINGS 1 Vol. 45. SACRED WRITINGS 2 Vol. 46. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 1 Vol. 47. ELIZABETHAN DRAMA 2 Vol. 48. THOUGHTS AND MINOR WORKS, PASCAL Vol. 49. EPIC AND SAGA Vol. 50. INTRODUCTION AND READER’S GUIDE Vol. 51. LECTURES The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction 20 Volumes: FIELDING to TURGENEV