In the 1840s an imaginative and mischievous boy named Tom Sawyer lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid, in the Mississippi River town of...

Emma thinks she knows what is best for everybody, including herself. This is one of many editions of this 1815 novel. Emma, when first published in...

He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him....

The novel begins on a ship sailing north of the Arctic Circle, where the captain spots a figure traveling across the ice on a dog sled....

At 10, Fanny Price, a poor relation, goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunts husband, Sir Thomas. Clever, studious, and a writer...

Pride and Prejudice is a timeless novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813 and that is not only a great love story but also a...

Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of the most celebrated novels in American literature--arguably the greatest novel in American literature. As such, the book...

Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young womans susceptibility to the attentions...

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter, although he...

This story relates how, traveling in the Sahara desert, he has encountered a remarkable vehicle and its pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story...