| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| 'Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end!' Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has delighted the world with a wildly imaginative and unforgettable journey, inspiring children of all ages to suspend disbelief and follow Alice into her fantasy worlds. This new gift edition presents Carroll's tale fully unabridged with a unique visual interpretation by renowned artist Camille Rose Garcia.
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| The Scarlet Letter (Illustrated Classics)
| This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educators using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70-page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
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| Treasure Island
| Treasure Island has to be one of the greatest adventure novels and best pirate stories, a tale of "pirates and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, it is an adventure tale for all ages, known for its atmosphere, characters and action. That's why it's also one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of Treasure Island on popular perception of pirates is vast, including treasure maps with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical isla...More
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| Wuthering Heights
| "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
| While scholars today criticize the stereotypical rendering of characters in Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, in its time this novel was a hugely popular and influential work embraced by anti-slavery advocates around the world. So influential was Uncle Tom's Cabin, when President Abraham Lincoln first greeted author Harriet Beecher Stowe, he referred to her as the "little woman" who "caused all the trouble." Uncle Tom's Cabin centers around the trials of the religiously devout black slave Tom who is so...More
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray (Marvel Illustrated)
| Painter Basil Hallward has done a portrait of a strange subject-youthful Dorian Gray, a man with a mysterious and tangled history. The young man broods on how unfair it is that he will age and his portrait will remain ever young. He wishes with all his might that it were otherwise - and in some bizarre, magical way - it is! This is a novel of dark wonders brilliantly brought to life in the heralded Marvel Illustrated style. Collects Marvel Illustrated: Picture of Dorian Gray #1-6.
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| Crime and Punishment (Illustrated Classics): A Graphic Novel
| And, in the dark, a thought came to me that no one had ever had before me: I wanted to kill someone, just in order to dare.”This graphic adaptation of Crime and Punishment masterfully illuminates Dostoevsky’s psychological thriller. Acclaimed French artist Alain Korkos vividly brings to life the mental anguish and moral dilemmas that plague Raskolnikov, a poor St. Petersburg student who murders a miserly pawnbroker. In this classic of Russian literature, the hero, unable to quell hi...More
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| Persuasion
| At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, "Persuasion" is a brilliant satire of vanity and pretension, but, above all, i...More
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| The War of the Worlds
| H. G. Wells' best-selling classic THE WAR OF THE WORLDS
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| Northanger Abbey
| After the young Catherine Morland falls in love with Henry Tilney, Henry's father invites her to stay at their home, Northanger Abbey. In her brief stay there, Catherine is carried away by imaginations of Gothic horror, induced by Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho; this aspect of Austen's novel is particularly notable for her criticism of the flightiness inspired by Gothic literature. Austen's development of Catherine's relationship becomes a continuation of her entertaining commentary on rom...More
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| The Call of the Wild (Classics Illustrated (New York, N.Y.), No. 10.)
| Taken from a kindly owner, Buck is forced into the perilous life of a sled dog in the treacherous Yukon Territory during the Klondike gold rush. Presented in comic book format.
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| The Hobbit
| Written for J.R.R. Tolkien"s own children, The Hobbit met with instant critical acclaim when first published more than sixty years ago. Now recognized as a timeless classic with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, this introduction to Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Wizard, and the spectacular world of Middle-earth tells of the adventures of a reluctant hero, a powerful and dangerous ring, and the cruel dragon Smaug the Magnificent.
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| The Beautiful and Damned
| This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1922 edition by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
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| The Wind in the Willows (Children's Library (Stanford, Conn.).)
| The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.
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| ATOMIC DREAMS : THE LOST JOURNAL OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER (APP BOOK)
| CARNIVAL COMICS introduces... App Books! The merger of smart phone apps and ebooks for your reading devices. Each digital page delivers easy to read lettering and full color images. No more straining to read or zooming in and out. Just turn your e-reader device to landscape view.... sit back and let your mind enter through the portal contained in the palm of your hand.(ATOMIC DREAMS : THE LOST JOURNAL OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER APP BOOK)Created by Jonathan Elias and Jazan Wild...Atomic Dreams: The...More
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| The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
| Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way he meets a Gypsy woman, a man who calls himself king, and an alchemist, all of whom point Santiago in the direction of his quest. No one knows what the treasure is, or if Santiago will be able to surmount the obstacles along the way. But what starts out as a journey to find worldly goods turns into a discovery of the treasure found within. Sinc...More
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| The Man in the Iron Mask
| A mysterious prisoner wearing an iron mask languishes deep within the Bastille. D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers find themselves tangled in a web of intrigue when suspicions about the prisoner’s identity begin to emerge. The final Musketeer story, “The Man in the Iron Mask” is a gripping adventure novel by one of the masters of the genre.
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| Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
| George Eliot's mammoth masterpiece relates the quest for fulfillment, both marital and professional, of Dorothea Brooke and Dr. Lydgate. After Dorothea becomes a widow less than two years into her marriage, she seeks a purpose in life other than romance w
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| The Moonstone
| 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 Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks, Max Werner (Illustrator)
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