Classic Literature

A Mark Twain classic.

Perhaps no other novel in this century has had a greater impact upon the way we think and talk about our world than George Orwell's classic, 1984. "Big Brother," "doublespeak," and "the thought police" have become part of our everyday lexicon, and the term "Orwellian" has become a familiar adjective for any situation-real or imagined-where conformity is compulsory and where someone always seems to be watching. Orwell's novel also has the distinction of being, along with Aldous Huxley's Brave N... more info>>

This collection of classic poems were written about childhood between 1881 and 1884.

Ebenezer Scrooge is back, but his are not the only ghosts that haunt this collection of holiday favorites. A collection of classic Dickens Holiday tales. No one can tug at the heartstrings like Dickens. Includes: A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, A Poor Relation's Story, A Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. Those who think Tiny Tim is a long haired guy with a ukulele really need to read this book!

In his collection of Scottish proverbs from literary texts written before 1600 Bartlett Jere Whiting has laid a solid foundation for the investigation of early Scottish proverbs and has promised a survey of later collections. [1] The following brief remarks are not intended to anticipate his survey but rather to suggest the place of this particular collection in the historical development and to point out the questions that it raises.

Louisa May Alcott's short romance is about two city debs who go to spend Christmas with their country cousins in Vermont.

Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, live with him, and every one is as busy as can be from one year's end to another. It is called the Laughing Valley because everything there is happy and gay. The brook chuckles to itself as it leaps rollicking between its green banks; the wind whistles merrily in the trees; the sunbeams dance lightly over the soft gra... more info>>

Now an award winning movie, Burnett's children's classic still tugs at the heart-strings. Sara Crew daughter of a British Captain is left in an American boarding school while her father goes off to fight. Treated like a princess, because she is supposed to come into wealth, her life changes drastically when it's reported to Miss Minchin, the head-mistress, that her father is dead and Sara left destitute.

At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep, exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day. The hummocky ice and pressure-ridges that Bennett had foreseen had at last been met with, and, though camp had been broken at six o'clock and though men and dogs had hauled and tugged and wrestled with the heavy sledges until five o'clock in the afternoon, only a mile and a half had been covered. But though the progress was slow, it was yet progress.

A William Shakespeare classic.

Forster's 1924 masterpiece, A Passage to India, is a novel about preconceptions and misconceptions and the desire to overcome the barrier that divides East and West in colonial India. It shows the limits of liberal tolerance, good intentions, and good will in sorting out the common problems that exist between two very different cultures. Forster's famous phrase, "only connect," stresses the need for human beings to overcome their hesitancy and prejudices and work towards realizing affection and ... more info>>

A Room of One's Own is a curious essay. Presented originally as two speeches to the Arts Society at Newham in 1928, the work is remarkable for its distinctive tone, for Woolf's witty and deceptively casual style, and for her decision largely eschew abstract arguments in favor of narrative, anecdote and the guidance of a strong, abiding first person narrator. She also, refreshingly, avoids doctrine and bombast, instead infusing her arguments with subtlety, curiosity and open-minded speculation. T... more info>>

The Golden Star," Homburg, was a humble hotel, not used by gay gamblers, but by modest travelers.

by Mark Twain The classic adventures of two boys in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Tom paints a fence, spies on river pirates, and he, and his pal Huckleberry Finn, discover treasure. ISBN 978-1-59431-897-9 Adventure, Classic , Bonus

by Mark Twain The classic adventures of two boys in pre-Civil War Mississippi. Tom paints a fence, spies on river pirates, and he, and his pal Huckleberry Finn, discover treasure. Also available in RTF and HTML formats. ISBN 978-1-59431-897-9 Adventure, Classic , Bonus

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: After spotting a white rabbit with a pocket watch run by her, Alice follows it to a rabbit hole and goes in. Immediately, she is falling deep beneath the earth and discovers a room filled with doors of all sizes. Upon entering one of them, she is whisked away to a magical place where she meets all sorts of spectacular creatures and animals, and has an adventure she will never forget. Through the Looking-Glass: Alice enters a mirror world of her own and soon dis... more info>>

Combining the unabashedly heart-warming sentiment of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County or Nicholas Sparks's Message in a Bottle, Goldstein's All That Matters is an inspirational story that leads readers to the core of what matters in life--family, hope, and savoring each moment. Jennifer Stempler had nothing left to lose. The love of her life asked her to move out, her mother died in a senseless car accident five years ago, and her famous Hollywood producer father started a bra... more info>>

A Hesba Stretton classic.

It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One could look long distances down them and see nothing but a dead-white emptiness, with silence to match. Of course I do not mean that you could see the silence--no, you could only hear it.

During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket." "Arthur Gordon Pym" (1845) was only one of many Poe stories which Verne admired; no other single author had more impact on his writing. Verne acknowledged this debt in his only major piece of literary cri... more info>>

Hitherto I have written with the sword, after the fashion of greater men, and requiring no secretary. I now take up the quill to set forth, correctly, certain incidents which, having been noised about, stand in danger of being inaccurately reported by some imitator of Brantome and De l'Estoile. If all the world is to know of this matter, let it know thereof rightly.

The Four Books that Defined and Chronicled the Jazz Age! Here in one eBook is the quartet of books that catapulted F. Scott Fitzgerald to literary immortality. Meet the flappers, the indolent young men, the speakeasies, the gangsters, the illegal hooch, and the easy money that characterized the Roaring Twenties. From This Side of Paradise to Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and the Damned, and Tales from the Jazz Age Fitzgerald will light the way on a very special insider's tour of the J... more info>>

This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley in the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. Anne leaves her family and her work as a teach in Avonlea to attend Remond College for four years. At first, she lives in a boardinghouse, but later shares a house with her old friends from Queen's, Priscilla and Stella, her new friend Philippa, and Stella's Aunt Jamesina, who takes care of the house for the girls.

The perfect crime goes awry in W.R. Burnett's tough and brutally wise 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle, and the problem is, in the end, human nature. Told in 40 short, blunt but richly atmospheric chapters, the novel meticulously details the planning and execution of a major jewel heist. The robbery is devised by Doc Reimenschneider, a master criminal just out of prison. It requires the involvement of a variety of different people, from the muscle--an itinerant hood named Dix, an overgrown country ... more info>>

It would be unfair to hold you responsible for these light sketches of a summer trip, which are now gathered into this little volume in response to the usual demand in such cases; yet you cannot escape altogether. For it was you who first taught me to say the name Baddeck; it was you who showed me its position on the map, and a seductive letter from a home missionary on Cape Breton Island, in relation to the abundance of trout and salmon in his field of labor.