Classic Books
Classic literature in eBook format.
Follows the adventures of Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer as they try to make their school for boys a happy, comfortable, and stimulating place.
The four March sisters couldn't be more different: Meg, the eldest, is dutiful and patient; Jo is adventurous, with dreams of being a great writer; shy, musical Beth is the peacemaker; and headstrong Amy likes the finer things in life. They may...
This novel explores themes of love, loyalty, and sacrifice through the relationship of the titular character, Lady Marguerite Blakeney, and her husband, Sir Percy, as they navigate treachery and peril in a quest for justice and freedom.
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the...
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both, and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could?” Frost's third book continues to mesmerize with its simple elegant language rippling over deeper...
Young people grow up in the new settlements of the early twentieth century Nebraska prairie. This is a tightly written, haunting story with vivid descriptions.
Frederick Douglass's dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick...
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast?" The publication of A Boy's Will and North of Boston marked the debut of...
During an eventful season at Bath, young, naïve Catherine Morland experiences the joys of fashionable society for the first time. She is delighted with her new acquaintances: flirtatious Isabella, who shares Catherine's love of Gothic romance and...
Told in five parts, O Pioneers! follows the Bergsons, a family of Swedish-American immigrants farming the prairie of Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. After the death of her father, Alexandra and her brothers inherit the family...
Titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte", this work was supposedly written by Joan's page and secretary. This volume covers her time as a youth in Domremy, as well as the first half of her...
Anne Elliot is twenty-seven and unmarried—by all accounts a spinster in her time—seemingly doomed to spend the rest of her life waiting on her image-obsessed father and extravagant older sister; attempting to maintain their once lavish, now...