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Classic literature in eBook format.
In his adventures in several fantastic lands, Gulliver meets little people less than six inches high, giants, men who live on an island floating in air, and other creatures.
Heart of Darkness is a short novel by Polish novelist Joseph Conrad, written as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s life as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. The river is “a mighty big river, that you could see...
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
The narrative begins in 1784 before the French revolution. Insults are traded, leading to murder, declarations of vengeance, and the specter of prison.
Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was one of seventy-seven passengers on the steamship Quaker City when it left New York in June 1867, to begin ?The Grand Holy Land Pleasure Excursion.? As special correspondent for the...
Isaiah is revered as one of the greatest prophets of ancient Israel. He is also its greatest poet. He is to Hebrew what Shakespeare is to English, but with a far more urgent and universal message than what Shakespeare had to convey.
In 12th-century England Prince John rules while his brother King Richard is away during the Crusades. During his reign, Prince John and others of the Norman nobility abuse their power. Ivanhoe, disowned by his father for going to war...
Charlotte Bronte's impassioned novel is the love story of Jane Eyre, a plain yet spirited governess, and her employer, the arrogant, brooding Mr. Rochester. Published in 1847 under the pseudonym Currer Bell, the book heralded a new kind of...
Ten years after leaving Plumfield Jo's boys are finding their way in the world, but as the encounter triumphs and disappointments they still turn to Jo to help them navigate.
Twelve stories about animals and insects including How the Camel Got His Hump; How the First Letter was Written, and How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin.
In one of Shakespeare's most famous and popular tragedies, the three daughters of the king of Britain are put to the test of declaring their love for their father, King Lear. The test leads to the expulsion of the favorite daughter, Cordelia; the...
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, Les Misérables is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape...