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Grab your jauntiest deerstalker cap and pipe and settle in for a treasury of great mysteries in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s thrilling 1904 collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Whether he’s solvi ...
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History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
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Don't be fooled by the title: this "history" is a bawdy romp through eighteenth century England led by the indefatigable Tom Jones, a boy whose deeds (and misdeeds) make for a rollicking good read.
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The rustle of silk, the glitter of diamonds—here is New York society in all of its Gilded Age splendor. May Welland is pure and delicate, a vision of young American womanhood. Her fiancé Newlan ...
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A vacation to the exotic location of Bath brings excitement and novelty to teenager Catherine Morland's life. Eager for a grand adventure to begin once she arrives, Catherine is delighted to receive t ...
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This swashbuckling story of adventure follows young man Jim Hawkins as he sets out on a quest for buried treasure. Robert Louis Stevenson’s ageless classic begins when Billy Bones, an old sea captai ...
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One of the first European novels ever written, The Princess of Clèves is a dazzling work of historical fiction. A young and beautiful girl, Mademoiselle de Chartres, arrives at the French king’s co ...
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A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!" He could speak a little Spanish, and also a ...
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A young man weighs two very different options for his future at the start of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Robinson can either settle down to a comfortable career in law or set sail for faraway plac ...
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In provincial nineteenth century Russia, poor working people are considered the property of the landowners on whose farms they work. This human property—the serfs—are known as "souls& ...
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Around the World in Eighty Days is a rip-roaring tale of adventure on a global scale. On a high-stakes bet from his friends, wealthy Phileas Fogg enlists his trusty butler Passepartout to travel the r ...
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Published in serial form between 1838 and 1839, Nicholas Nickleby is the tale of a young man forced to grow up and face the world in all of its wild and raucous variety. Nicholas loses his father and ...
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This final novel by renowned author Charles Dickens explores the meaning of value, both financial and moral. The novel begins with a death: a rich, cranky miser has passed away, leaving his estate to ...
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Thursday, Welbeck Street. other praise. I almost think you will like my "Criminal Queens." you will go with me in my view as to the Queen of Scots. Guilty! guilty always! Adultery, murder, tr ...
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Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day. A blazing sun upon a fierce August day was no greater rarity in southern France then, than at any other time, before or since. Everything ...
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Born into poverty and hardship, Oliver Twist is an unfortunate young boy. An orphan, he is sent to a workhouse at a tender age, forced to labor all day with very little to eat. Oliver creates a scanda ...
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In his 1902 novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad brings us a shocking tale of adventure into the very depths of the soul. Marlow is a sailor sent to pilot a river voyage on the Congo River in the da ...
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To begin with the old rigmarole of childhood. In a country there was a shire, and in that shire there was a town, and in that town there was a house, and in that house there was a room, and in that ro ...
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Glitz and glamour collide with poverty and scandal in The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton’s celebrated novel about the vicious nature of Old New York society. Our smart, lovely heroine Lily Bart moves ...
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