Classic Literature

Three Beloved Novels for One Low Price! You have read the books and seen the movies, now reexperience Burnett's warmth and humor in the three books that have outlived her and most of the literature of her day. First the story of a daring young girl who violates all taboos when she enters the forbidden secret garden to liberate a handicapped young boy's soul. Then a young woman shows herself a true princess when the collapse of her father's investments changes her position at boarding school dram... more info>>

A cowboy tracks a wild Mustang through a prairie fire, then is hurt before he can show anyone what he has. Finally, he finds a young girl who can ride him and perhaps he finds love along with her.

London's classic adventure anthology. Full of intriguing characters and snippets of pidgin, they also highlight London's concern with social issues.

After having his portrait painted, Dorian Gray is captivated by his own beauty. Tempted by his world-weary friend, decadent friend Lord Henry Wotton, he wished to stay young forever and pledges his very soul to keep his good looks. As Dorian's slide into crime and cruelty progresses, he stays magically youthful, while his beautiful portrait changes, revealing the hideous corruption of moral decay.

A boy is raised in England, aware that his own country is far away. Is he just a boy? Or could he be the lost prince of Samvaria? And whether he is the prince or not, how can he help his country? By the author of THE SECRET GARDEN and THE LITTLE PRINCESS.

The sinking of the Lusitania is only a taste of the action when Tommy meets Tuppence in World War I England and the two set out together to foil an enemy spy.

The very first Gothic romance finds orphaned Jane employed as a Governess by the widowed Mr. Rochester. Will she fall in love with the brooding, mysterious master? You bet. Is she in for some rude awakenings. That, too.

A collection of the early stories of novelist Jane Austen, including fragments of a play, and two fragmentary novels.

In addition to her great classics, Louisa Mae Alcott wrote thrillers for the magazines of her time. The Abbott's Ghost is one such action tale.

A collection of Christmas Traditions written by a master especially for the holiday season.

More of Bobbi Sinha-Moreys wonderful new-age poetry. A sensual way with words that will leave you wanting more.

A tale of four children, created by a master just for the holiday season.

In 1834, a Harvard student enlisted as a common seaman--the result was this adventure classic. Crackling with realism, it offers memorable views of a dangerous voyage, vividly describing storms, whales, an insane captain, excruciating hardships, and magical beauty, as well as fascinating historical detail, including a portrait of California before the gold rush.

A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic, night-dwelling specter who feeds upon the blood of the living, and whose diabolical passions prey upon the innocent, the helpless, and the beautiful. But Dracula also stands as a bleak allegorical saga o... more info>>

Poe's classic short story about Roderick Usher and the destruction of his family.

At the turn of the last century, an orphan from the city finds herself living on a farm with her country cousins in Vermont. Follow Betsy, as she experiences a new kind of life and a new kind of school. Written by the woman who introduced the Montessori system of education to the U.S.

Edgar Rice Burroughs provides one of his most interesting combinations of adventure and social commentary. The premise behind this alternative history story is that the United States did not get involved in the "Great War" in Europe but instead followed its isolationist tendencies to such an extreme ("The East for the East...The West for the West") that no one from the United States has gone past 30 degrees or 175 degrees latitude for over 160 years, which means no one in America even knows who ... 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.

You saw the movie, now read the science fiction novel, about an island continent where dinosaurs are not yet extinct. This story was first published in Blue book Magazine as a three-part serial in the issues for September, October, and November, 1918. The complete trilogy was later combined for publication in book form in June, 1924

Jack London's classic tale of is best known for his lead character, Wolf Larsen, a seaman with a will. Ostensibly the book was written to refute Nietzche's premise in Man and Superman. Though Wolf Larson is one of the most memorable characters in fiction, he bears little resemblance to Super Man, either the comic book, or the Nietzche variety. He does, as has been observed often, bear a considerable resemblance to London, himself.

The classic story of the little Dutch boy who saved all Holland when he put his finger in the dike.

Elizabeth Bennet is the perfect Austen heroine: intelligent, generous, sensible, incapable of jealousy or any other major sin. That makes her sound like an insufferable goody-goody, but the truth is she's a completely hip character, who if provoked is not above skewering her antagonist with a piece of her exceptionally sharp--but always polite--18th century wit. The point is, you spend the whole book absolutely fixated on the critical question: will Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy hook up?

A heartwarming Classic Christmas Tale.

This true adventure tells of Mellville's experiences in the Marquesas Islands after he was shipwrecked there. A best-seller in it's day, Typee explored themes of free love. Melville thought he was in paradise until he realized that all his new and helpful friends were also cannibals.

Cedric Errol is a generous, kind, and exemplary middle-class American boy who is suddenly found to be the heir of the Earl of Dorincourt. Saying loving good-byes to his working-class friends, Cedric goes to England together with his mother to embrace his new fortune. His grandfather, the old earl, is a bitter old man ridden with gout and a foul temper, and trusting no one. However the angelic boy elicits a profound transformation in the grandfather, which not only benefits the castle household b... more info>>