Browsing the "Classics" category: 3286 books
The Great American Novel
Herman Melville's story of a Great White Whale has survived time and change, has even survived the end of the whaling industry itself, because it is the greatest American novel ever written. More than ...more »
ISBN: 1931305285 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Sep 2001 / File Size: 650K
"A man exists for a generation, but his name lasts to the end of time."
Yamamoto Tsunetomo was a samurai in the early 1700's, a time when Japan had been at peace for a century, and the question of how to maintain a strong war ...more »
ISBN: 1931395579 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Dec 2001 / File Size: 377K
Generally considered to be London's greatest achievement, The Call of the Wild brought him international acclaim when it was published in 1903. His story of the dog Buck, who learns to survive in the bleak Yukon wilderness, is viewed by many as his s ...more »
ISBN: 0679641688 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 643K
ISBN: 5551059081 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Dec 1999 / File Size: 192K
"First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas's swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D'Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting ...more »
ISBN: 0679641408 / Modern Library / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 952K
Edmond Dantes, betrayed on his wedding day by a friend, imprisoned to save a political career, robbed of a bright future, has returned to Paris after fourteen years of horrifying and dehumanizing imprisonment, a hair's-breadth escape, and sud ...more »
ISBN: 1931305730 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 1062K
ISBN: 5551059421 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Aug 2000 / File Size: 263K
Daring deeds and cold steel combine in this classic which has thrilled readers for over one hundred and fifty years. ...more »
ISBN: 1589291034 / PocketPCpress / Pub Date: Oct 2000 / File Size: 837K
"The Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc is Mark Twain's supreme literary expression,--the loftiest, the most delicate, the most luminous example of his work."
-Albert Bigelow Paine, Twain Biographer
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ISBN: 1931305668 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Jan 2002 / File Size: 708K
ISBN: 5552049640 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Mar 2001 / File Size: 282K
My Schools and Schoolmasters is Hugh Miller's account of his extraordinary life - from the hardships of his early life in Cromarty, in North Eastern Scotland, where he originally worked as a stonemason, to his later years as a scientist, journalist, ...more »
ISBN: 1843500213 / Soft Editions Ltd / Pub Date: May 2002 / File Size: 654K
Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, published when the author was twenty-three years old, changed the face of American literature. Bold and original, it presented war not from the lofty viewpoint of a clash of i ...more »
ISBN: 1931305390 / New Albion Press / Pub Date: Oct 2001 / File Size: 1014K
ISBN: 5551058840 / Xlibris Corporation / Pub Date: Sep 2000 / File Size: 71K
ISBN: 5552054903 / Amazon Press / Pub Date: Apr 1997 / File Size: 434K
Kidnapped is a fast paced story of murder, politics, history and friendship. It follows the travels of the young David Balfour, as he travels from his home village to the outskirts of Edinburgh to meet his uncle, and start to make his way in life. Hi ...more »
ISBN: 1843500159 / Soft Editions Ltd / Pub Date: May 2002 / File Size: 291K
This meticulously edited edition of Bram Stoker's classic vampire tale remains true to the original Victorian style. This edition contains an introduction by modern vampire author Jacob Thomson, and a haunting cover painting by Chris Lee. ...more »
ISBN: 0971220719 / Riverdale Electronic Books / Pub Date: Feb 2002 / File Size: 447K
Published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables was conceived by Nathaniel Hawthorne as a modern-day sequel to The Scarlet Letter, which had appeared the year before. Set in Salem, the story’s dramatic center revolves around two elderl ...more »
ISBN: 0594090881 / Barnes & Noble World Digital Library / Pub Date: May 2002 / File Size: 544K
€œMy empire is of the imagination,€ proclaims white queen Ayesha, She-who-must-be-obeyed. She is a spiritual romance in which Haggard explores not only the imagined city of Kôr, last remnant of an ancient, colla ...more »
ISBN: 0594092019 / Barnes & Noble Digital / Pub Date: Jan 2003 / File Size: 3598K
In a world where hardened street criminals are scorned and encouraged to reform, those with money and connections attempt to control their fate by walking away and starting over.
Sisters FBI Special Agent River Bryyst and Kingsley Co ...more »
ISBN: 0970343108 / Patience Smith Books / Pub Date: Jan 2001 / File Size: 364K
Romance naturally emanates from Venice, a city of passion and eroticism. This was the case for Mara, a Nebraskan writer who emigrated from the United States fourteen years ago. One of her newly published novels brings passion to her, when the son of ...more »
ISBN: 0759219109 / e-reads / Pub Date: Jan 1900 / File Size: 646K
ISBN: 192077405X / Deodand Publishing / Pub Date: Mar 2003 / File Size: 167K
A Jurassic nightmare confronts the crew of the U-boat U-33 when it surfaces in a lagoon on the uncharted island of Caprona. Yet, man-eating dinosaurs are the least of their problems. Out of fuel, lost, and with a mixed crew of English captives and Ge ...more »
ISBN: 555126372X / Deodand Publishing / Pub Date: Mar 2003 / File Size: 167K
Enduring Literature Illuminated By Practical ScholarshipA collection of the Gothic master's classic works in prose and verse.This Enriched Classic Edition Includes: * A concise introduction that gives the reader important background informat ...more »
ISBN: 1416561900 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Jun 2007 / File Size: 367K
George Lopez tells of his inspirational rise from dead-end, back-alley kid to prime-time TV sensation in the sidesplitting New York Times bestseller Why You Crying?When G-Lo gives a comic performance, there& ...more »
ISBN: 1416585583 / Simon & Schuster / Pub Date: Nov 2007 / File Size: 340K
ISBN: 1557424594 / Wildside Press / Pub Date: Nov 2005 / File Size: 631K
