| A Tale of Two Cities (Classics)
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| Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fairy tales; Children's stories; Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folklore
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| Alice in Wonderland
| Alice In Wonderland - The Classic by Lewis Carroll
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| David Copperfield (Great Illustrated Classics)
| This TNT Original miniseries, in partnership with Hallmark Entertainment is based on Charles Dickens's extraordinary story of a young man struggling to find a place in the world of 19th century London. Through his hero Dickens draws openly on his own life, as he recalls his experiences from childhood. The unforgettable characters of Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, Uriah Heep, and Mr. Micawber, a portrait of Dickens's own father, evoke the mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt that makes this one ...More
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| Adventures of Oliver Twist
| The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens' tale of childhood innocence beset by evil depicts the dark criminal underworld of a London peopled by vivid and memorable characters - the arch-villain Fagin, the artful Dodger, the menacing Bill Sikes and the prostitute Nancy. Combining elements of Gothic Romance, the Newgate Novel and popular melodrama, in "Oliver Twist" Dickens created...More
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| Treasure Island (Illustrated Junior Library)
| A classic tale of buried treasure, pirates, and exciting adventure on the high seas returns in an illustrated reissue from the Illustrated Junior Library, featuring a striking new cover.
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| Little Women (Sterling Classics)
| The illustrations for this series were created by Scott McKowen, who, with his wife Christina Poddubiuk, operates Punch & Judy Inc., a company specializing in design and illustration for theater and performing arts. Their projects often involve research into the visual aspects of historical settings and characters. Christina is a theater set and costume designer and contributed advice on the period clothing for the illustrations.Scott created these drawings in scratchboard an engraving medium...More
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| A Christmas Carol
| The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens's beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition.The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge's own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Each takes him on a heart-stopping journey, yielding glimpses of Tiny Tim and Bob Cratchit, the horrifying spectres of Want and Ignorance, even Scrooge's painfully hopeful you...More
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| The Secret Garden
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
| This is a beautifully-designed new edition of Mark Twain's classic THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
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| Wuthering Heights (Paperback Classics)
| "Wuthering Heights" seems bafflingly unlike other novels yet constantly speaks to popular imagination. This edition for students and teachers engages with some of the key issues in contemporary critical theory.
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' Edition (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)
| Illustrated watered-down version of the classic 1852 novel which Stowe wrote as an angry response to the 1850 passage of the second Fugitive Slave Act, which punished those who aided runaway slaves and diminished the rights of fugitives as well as freed slaves. It was the best-selling novel of the 19th century (and the second best-selling book of the century after the Bible) and is credited with helping to fuel the abolitionist cause in the United States prior to the American Civil War. When Sto...More
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| The Jungle Book
| The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling's classic tale of a lost boy raised by animals in the wilds of India. Mowgli is a young boy in the jungle. He has no human parents or companions. But what he does have is a bear, a panther, and other creatures who advise and befriend him. Together they face many dangers and adventures, as Mowgli finds himself in the clutches of the Monkey People, and confronts the wrath of Shere Khan, the tiger who separated him from his human family. Generating numerous sta...More
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| The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
| Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balance...More
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| Emma (Macmillan students' novels)
| From the series intended for those reading major classic novels for the first time, with the text, background to the novel and detailed comments on the plot, this book concentrates on Austen's novel "Emma" and the heroine's schemes for her friend Harriet's advancement. There is an introduction, a section of plates and explanations of the language used and the literary qualities of the work.
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| The Borrowers (Odyssey/Harcourt Young Classic (Prebound))
| This is the classic story--read and loved by children all over the world--of Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, who live under the kitchen floor in a quiet, half-empty house and get their livelihood by borrowing from the “human beans.” “Delectable fantasy.”--Booklist
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| The Phantom of the Opera
| First published in French as a serial in 1909, "The Phantom of the Opera" is a riveting story that revolves around the young, Swedish Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully. All goes well until Christine's childhood friend Raoul comes to visit his parents, who a...More
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| Persuasion (Penguin Longman Reader Bk/Tape)
| In this witty story of love and marriage, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years. They are in love, but will they marry? "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers wi...More
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| Beauty and the Beast
| Generations of children have been fascinated by the story of the girl named Beauty, who grows to love a fearsome beast by learning to see and cherish his kindness, generosity, and intelligence. In this acclaimed, best-selling version of the classic tale, first published in 1978, Marianna Mayer's evocative imagery and Mercer Mayer's exquisite paintings transport readers into a world of pure magic and mystery.
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| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
| This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader’s notes to help the modern reader contend with Twain’s language, allusions, and deliberate misstatements and malapropisms.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain’s sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, became an instant success in the year of its publication, 1884, but was seen by some as unfit for children to read because of its language, grammar, and "uncivilized hero." The book has sparked controver...More
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