Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, 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 become part of our common ...
This Barnes & Noble Book Club Edition includes a Q&A with author Emma Straub and
a reading group guide for book clubs.A totally engaging and smart book about the absolutely marvelous messiness of what makes up family; a wonderful book.Elizabeth ...
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 ...
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale
of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse ...
In seventeenth-century Boston, Hester Prynne shoulders the scorn of her fellow Puritan townsfolk for bearing
a child out of wedlock. For her refusal to name the father of her daughter Pearl, Hester is made to wear a scarlet "A" stitched conspicuously ...
Shipwrecked on an uncharted island, the Swiss Family Robinson--mother, father, and four young boys--make the
most of their predicament, adapting to the island and turning the absence of civilization to their advantage. Through persevereance, hard work, and self-reliance, they become ...
Literary marvels and wonders await you in Classic Fantasy Stories, an anthology of the best
short fantasy fiction published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book’s thirty selections run the gamut from the humorous fantasy of Edgar Allan ...
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 ...