Aesop's Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have ...
From master thriller writer Michael Crichton: Two imaginative masterpieces of speculative science, full of adventure
and larger-than-life characters. In Jurassic Park, scientists of today clone dinosaurs of the prehistoric past to serve as attractions in a modern theme park. When ...
Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck
Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life ...
The victim of betrayal by friends and an insidious plot to hide another's perfidy, innocent young
sailor Edmond Dantes is imprisoned for life at the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After fourteen years, he makes a harrowing escape and works his ...
A landmark of science fiction's "Golden Age," Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy--which comprises the novels Foundation,
Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation--has long been regarded a visionary masterpiece whose astonishing historical scope perfectly conveys science fiction's sense of ...
Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale
of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait ...
Classic Ghost Stories is a treasure trove of tales of ghosts and hauntings with 36
stories published in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book's distinguished lineup of writers includes Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M. R. James, William ...
The publication of Thomas Paine's incendiary pamphlet, Common Sense, in January of 1776, proved the
tipping point for America's Revolutionary War. Its eloquent and reasoned argument about the inherent unfairness of monarchic succession, and its catalog of abuses by the ...
