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In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith.

"Through the poems in this volume, representing his first four published collections, Eliot reshaped modern literature with a daring and overpowering vision of a decaying civilization and the urgent need for spiritual renewal."--Back cover.

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finds employment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety of characters in the city streets.

"Inferno is a fourteenth-century allegorical story, written as a poem, relating Dante's fictional travels through the nine circles of Hell. Dante outlines moral truths by explaining what he learns in each circle - Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, Treachery - with the help of his Guide, the poet, Virgil. This is the first part of a three-part story, the second being Purgatorio, and the third being Paradiso"--. Provided...

Nikolai Gogol, an early 19th century Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humorist, and dramatist, created some of the most important works of world literature and is considered the father of modern Russian realism. Gogol satirized the corrupt bureaucracy of the Russian Empire through the scrupulous and scathing realism of his writing, which would ultimately lead to his exile. Among some of his finest works are his short stories. Together in this collection...

Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker) Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat...