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A classic example of early "lost race" science-fiction.

Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling

A Girl of the Limberlost is considered a classic of Indiana literature. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp - at that time, a site of heavy logging and natural oil extraction.This Bildungsroman is structured as girl-meets-

Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872.

The slavery of weight, which chains us to this planet and to the ground, is far more serious than we appreciate, simply because we have always been "earthbound". But, sooner or later, it will be possible to bring about such conditions as our author descri

A classic pirate tale of the Spanish Main, featuring the female pirate, Captain Jo.

The Prophetic Pictures was written in the year 1837 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic whic

Down into the infinitely small goes Larry on his mission to the Pygmy Planet.

The Real Thing was written in the year 1893 by Henry James. This book is one of the most popular novels of Henry James, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers c

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare. It was one of his earlier plays, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594. The play begins with a framing device in which a drunkard is deceived into thinking he is a nobleman who then

A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James St

The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which describes an invasion of England by aliens from Mars. It is one of the earliest and best-known depictions of an alien invasion of Earth, and has influenced many others,

In diesem Band, der als wahre Reiseerzählung betrachtet werden kann, führt es den Ich-Erzähler Old Shatterhand kreuz und quer durch die USA. Zunächst verfolgen er und Winnetou noch den Mörder Santer, müssen sich dann aber trennen, und man erfährt dann, wi

Mort and Mike got strange calls on this phone; they didn't come through Central!

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave was written in the year 1850 by Sojourner Truth. This book is one of the most popular novels of Sojourner Truth, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by

The best Hawaii stories, and among London's best stories overall, including "Shin Bones" and "The Water Baby."

The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven (modeled on Whitby, England) against the background of the practice of impressment during the early phases of the Napoleonic Wars.

The "Flying U" boys stage a fake bank robbery for film purposes which precedes a real one for lust of gold.

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself enmeshed in a tangle of love, torn between two women—the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia—both involved, in turn, with the corrup

A Son of the Sun was written in the year 1912 by Jack London. This book is one of the most popular novels of Jack London, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers