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ANTHOLOGIES

100 Timeless Stories for Middle School and High School, selected and edited by Richard Seltzer, $3.99   Add to Cart

Collection of 100 classic short stories, selected for use in middle school and high school. Complete table of contents

The Art of War: Five Classic Books by Sun Tzu, Machiavelli, Baron Jomini, Clausewitz, and Mahan, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes five classic books on the theory of war: The Art of War by Sun Tzu, The Art of War by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War by Baon de Jomini, On War (Volume 1 of 3) by Carl von Clausewitz, and The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Alfred Thayer Mahan.

Australian Poetry: Paterson, Lawson, and Dennis, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, Saltbush Bill, J. P. and Other Verses, Rio rade's Last Race and other Verses all by Banjo Paterson, The Old Bush Songs edited by Banjo Paterson, In the Cays When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, and The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Digger Smith, and The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. Dennis.

Classics of Judaism: 11 great books of Jewish wisdom, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes 11 books: Medieval Hebrew (featuring The Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish biblical lore and legend), Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Samuel Rapaport, Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim, and Kabbala, The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot), Kitab al Khazari by Judah Hallevi, the Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, Philo-Judaeus of alexandria by Norman Bentwich, The guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides, The Ethics by Benedict de [Baruch] Spinoza, Chapters on Jewish Literature by Israel Abahams,, and The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) by Nahum Slouschz.

Black American Classics: 11 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, "The Conjure Woman" by Charles Chesnutt, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson, "Clotel or The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown, "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar", "De Turkey and De Law" by Zora Hurston, "A Century of Negro Migration" by Carter Woodson, "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson, and "The Underground Rail Road" by Will Still.

Fairy Tales Galore: Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Andrew Lang, $4.99   Add to Cart

All the great fairy tale collections:  Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, and all twelve of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books.

SLAVE NARRATIVES: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, all 17 volumes, $8.99  Add to Cart

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. All 17 volumes, with links to every interview. Former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. hern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

The Borgias: Three Books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Lucretia Borgia by Ferinand Gregorovius, The Borigas by Alexandre Dumas, and The Prince by Nicolo Machiavelli. According to Wikipedia: "The Borgias, also known as the Borjas, "Borjia," "Borghetti" and "Bourghesse" were a European Papal family of Béarnaise origin with the name stemming from the familial fief seat of Borja belonging to their Aragonese Lords; they became prominent during the Renaissance. The Borgias were patrons of the arts; thanks to their support, artists of the Renaissance could 'spread their wings' and realize their artistic potential. The most brilliant personalities of this era regularly visited their court. The Borgias became prominent in ecclesiastical and political affairs in the 1400s and 1500s. Today they are remembered for their corrupt rule when one of them was Pope. They have been accused of many different crimes, including adultery, simony, theft, rape, bribery, incest, and murder (especially murder by arsenic poisoning[1]). Because of their search for power, they made enemies of other powerful families such as the Medici and the Sforza, as well as the influential Dominican friar Savonarola."

The Federalist Papers, $1.99   Add to Cart

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist; or, The New Constitution, was published in two volumes in 1788 by J. and A. McLean. The series' correct title is The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century.

Founding Documents of American Democracy, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Mayflower Compact 1620, Fundamental Orders of 1639, Colonial Records of Virginia, Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, Declaration of Independence 1776, Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776, Paris Peach Treaty 1783, Annapolis Convention 1786, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance 1787, The Constitution 1787, The Bill of Rights, Amendments to the Constitution, Washington's Farewell Address 1796, The Monroe Doctrine 1823, The Emancipation Proclamation 1862, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 1863.

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Obama, $2.99   Add to Cart

Collection of speeches by U.S. presidents.  According to Wikipedia: "The inauguration of the President of the United States takes place during the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States, which is every four years... "

The Gothic Novel: Seven Classic Novels. $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Castle of Otranto by Walpole, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, The Monk by Lewis, Wieland by Brown, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, and Dracula by Stoker.

Greek and Roman Philosophy: Epictetus, Longinus, Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, and Boethius, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus, On the Sublime by Longinus, On Friendship and Old Age by Cicero, Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and The Consolation of History by Boethius.

History of Woman Suffrage, all six volumes, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote.  . According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches." According to Wikipedia, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States, and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression. Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 – March 14, 1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author and journalist who wrote primarily to document the movement and show support of its ideals."

The Wit and Humor of America, Complete, all 10 volumes, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, $3.99   Add to Cart

All ten volumes of the the Wit and Humor in America series. First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carolyn Wells, James Whitcomb Riley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bill Nye, Bret Harte, and John Philip Sousa.



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With the Armies of Menelik II by Alexander Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer, $9.99  Add to Cart

This is a unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-98 - at the change of an era - by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their destiny. Originally published in 1900. According to a review in "Old Africa": "Despite its bland title, this is the most important book on the history of eastern Africa to have been published for a century. And it was written over a century ago!" According to Wikipedia: "Alexander Ksaverievich Bulatovich tonsured Father Antony 26 September 1870 - 5 December 1919) was a Russian military officer, explorer of Africa, writer, hieromonk and the leader of imiaslavie movement in Eastern Orthodox Christianity."  This book was included with "From Entotto to the River Baro" in the printed book "Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes."  This edition includes all the original photographs, diagrams, and maps from the original edition.

From Entotto to the River Baro by Alexander Bulatovich, translated by Richard Seltzer, $9.99   Add to Cart

Unique and detailed first-hand account of Ethiopia in 1896-97 - at the change of an era - by a Russian officer with remarkable understanding for the many varied people who lived there and keen insight into their destiny. According to a review in "Old Africa": "Despite its bland title, this is the most important book on the history of eastern Africa to have been published for a century. And it was written over a century ago!"  According to Wikipedia: "Alexander Ksaverievich Bulatovich tonsured Father Antony 26 September 1870 - 5 December 1919) was a Russian military officer, explorer of Africa, writer, hieromonk and the leader of imiaslavie movement in Eastern Orthodox Christianity." This book was included with "With the Armies of Menelik II" in the printed book "Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes."

Complete review of both the above books (combined in "Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes) in the magazine "Old Africa" (published in Kenya) http://www.oldafricamagazine.com/blog/russian-officer-king-meneliks-army

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The Wit and Humor of America, Complete, all 10 volumes, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, $3.99   Add to Cart

All ten volumes of the the Wit and Humor in America series. First published in 1907, this large collection includes short humorous prose and verse by such writers as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Carolyn Wells, James Whitcomb Riley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bill Nye, Bret Harte, and John Philip Sousa.

Henry Adams: 4 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Education of Henry Adams, Mont Saint-Michel and Chartres, Democracy, and Esther.  According to Wikipedia: "Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918; normally called Henry Adams) was an American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best known for his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family."

The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American novelist, journalist, historian and academic. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.... He published The Education of Henry Adams in 1907, in a small private edition for selected friends, which curiously omitted the years 1872-'91 and his entire marriage. The work concerned the birth of forces Adams saw as replacing Christianity. For Adams, the Virgin Mary had shaped the old world, as the dynamo represented modernity. It was only following Adams's death that The Education was made available to the general public, in an edition issued by the Massachusetts Historical Society. It ranked first on the Modern Library's 1998 list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books and was named the best book of the twentieth century by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative organization that promotes classical education. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919."

  Twenty Years at Hull-House by Jane Addams, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and one of the first American women to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

Louisa May Alcott: 29 Books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Flower Fables, Hospital Sketches, On Picket Duty and Other Tales, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, Little Women, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Shawl-Straps, Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore Etc., Little Men, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jo's Boys, A Garland for Girls, A Modern Cinderella and Other Stories, And Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Moods, Silver Pitchers and Independence, Spinning Wheel Stories,The Louisa Alcott Reader, Behind a Mask, and The Abbot's Ghost.

  Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews: Three Novels and Four Short Stories, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes the novels: August First, Joy in the Morning, and The Militants. It also includes the stories: The Courage of the Commonplace, The Good Samaritan, The Lifted Bandage, and The Perfect Tribute. According to Wikipedia: "Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (April 2, 1860? - August 2, 1936) was an American writer. Best known for a widely read short story about Abraham Lincoln, often printed as a small volume, The Perfect Tribute, she was born at Mobile, Alabama, and married William Shankland Andrews, judge of the New York Court of Appeals. She published many works between 1906 and 1930."

L. Frank Baum

According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,[1] and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)."

Books about Oz by Frank Baum, all 17 of them in a single file, without illustrations, $4.99  Add to Cart

This is a text-only edition.  For illustrated versions of some of these books, see the listings below. This book-collection file includes: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900; The Marvelous Land of Oz, 1904; the Woggle-Bug Book, 1905; Ozma of Oz, 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, 1908; The Road to Oz, 1909; the Emerald City of Oz, 1913; The Patchwork Girl of Oz, 1913; Little Wizard Stories of Oz, 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz, 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz, 1915; Rinitink in Oz, 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz, 1917; The Tin Woodman of Oz, 1919; The Magic of Oz, 1919; Glinda of Oz, 1920; and The Royal Book of Oz, 1921.

The Oz Bundle, all 17 books, in separate files, 10 with illustations, 7 without illustrations $7.99  Add to Cart

 The Wizard of Oz, 1900, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Land of Oz, 1904, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Woggle-Bug Book, 1905, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

 Ozma of Oz, 1907, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, 1908 by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

 The Road to Oz, 1909, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Emerald City of Oz, 1913, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

 The Patchwork Girl of Oz, 1913 ,by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

  Little Wizard Stories of Oz, 1913, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

Tik-Tok of Oz, 1914, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Scarecrow of Oz, 1915, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

 Rinkitink in Oz, 1916, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart
 The Lost Princess of Oz, 1917, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

 The Tin Woodman of Oz, 1919,  by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Magic of Oz, 1919, by L. Frank Baum, no illustrations, $1.99  Add to Cart

 Glinda of Oz, 1920, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart


 The Royal Book of Oz, 1921, by L. Frank Baum and Ruth Plumly Thompson, Illustrated by John R.Neill, $1.99  Add to Cart

  Lands Beyond Oz: five fantasy novels by L. Frank Baum, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Suprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People, The Enchanted Island of Yew, The Sea Fairies, Sky Island, and Dot and Tot of Merryland.  According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)."

  The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People (copyright registered 17 June 1896) is the first full-length children's fantasy book by L. Frank Baum. Originally published in 1899 as A New Wonderland, Being the First Account Ever Printed of the Beautiful Valley, and the Wonderful Adventures of Its Inhabitants, the book was reissued in 1903 with a new title in order to capitalize upon the alliterative title of Baum's successful The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The book is only slightly altered--Mo is called Phunniland or Phunnyland, but aside from the last paragraph of the first chapter, they are essentially the same book."

  The Enchanted Island of Yew by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Enchanted Island of Yew: Whereon Prince Marvel Encountered the High Ki of Twi and Other Surprising People is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by Fanny Y. Cory, and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1903... The Island of Yew is set at some undisclosed place in the Earth's global ocean — "in the middle of the sea." (Later commentators have sometimes placed it in Baum's "Nonestic Ocean" with the landmass that contains the Land of Oz and its associated countries; but there is no authority for this in the book itself.) Like Oz, it is divided into four countries associated with the four cardinal directions, plus a fifth central country that dominates the others. In the east of Yew lies the land of Dawna; in the west, "tinted rose and purple by the setting sun," is Auriel. In the south lies the kingdom of Plenta, "where fruits and flowers abounded;" and in the north is Heg, the most stereotypically feudal and medieval of the four. In the center, like the Emerald City in Oz, lies the fifth kingdom of Spor."

  Sea Fairies by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Baum had decided to end the Oz series with The Emerald City of Oz in 1910, after six installments over the first decade of the twentieth century. The Sea Fairies was intended to be the first in a new series of fantasy novels, which Baum and Reilly & Britton continued the next year with Sky Island. Unfortunately for author and publisher, the two volumes of the new projected series did not meet with the same success as the Oz books previously had. The first edition of The Sea Fairies sold 12,400 copies in its initial year on the market, where The Emerald City of Oz had sold 20,000. Even when Baum's books experienced a major resurgence in interest and sales in 1918, The Sea Fairies sold only 611 copies that year while the Oz books and even Baum's non-Oz works were selling thousands of copies. Once Baum returned to writing Oz books with The Patchwork Girl of Oz in 1913, the Trot series was retired — but the main characters lived on. Trot and Cap'n Bill are the main protagonists in The Scarecrow of Oz (1915) — the plot of which was reworked from the projected third book in their aborted series — and they play a significant role in The Magic of Oz (1919). Trot appears in The Lost Princess of Oz (1917) and Glinda of Oz (1920) as well."

  Sky Island, being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Sky Island: Being the Further Adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after Their Visit to the Sea Fairies is a children's fantasy novel written by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by John R. Neill, and published in 1912 by the Reilly & Britton Company — the same constellation of forces that produced the Oz books in the first decades of the twentieth century. As the full title indicates, Sky Island is a sequel to Baum's The Sea Fairies of 1911. Both books were intended as parts of a projected long-running fantasy series to replace the Oz books. Given the relatively tepid reception of the first book in the series, however, Baum tried to attract young readers by including two characters from his Oz mythos in Sky Island — Button Bright and Polychrome, originally introduced in The Road to Oz (1909)."

  Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum.[ After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that flowed through a tunnel. The land was called Merryland and was split into seven valleys."

  Fairy and Nursery Tales by L. Frank Baum, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes three books: The Master Key, American Fairy Tales, and Mother Goose in Prose.  According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)."

  The Master Key by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

"Founded Upon The Mysteries Of Electricity And The Optimism Of Its Devotees.  It Was Written For Boys, But Others May Read It."  According to Wikipedia: "The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz... The protagonist is a boy named Rob Joslyn. His age is not specified. Baum dedicated the book "To My Son, Robert Stanton Baum," who was born in 1886 and would thus have been about fifteen at the time it was published. Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he "never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort."

  American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901..  The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of Baum's work, in Oz or out. With ironic or nonsensical morals attached to their ends, their tone is more satirical, glib, and tongue-in-cheek than is usual in children's stories; the serialization in newspapers for adult readers was appropriate for the materials. "The Magic Bon Bons" was the most popular of the tales, judging by number of reprints. Two of the stories, "The Enchanted Types" and "The Dummy That Lived," employ knooks and ryls, the fairies that Baum would use in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus the next year, 1902. "The Dummy That Lived" depends upon the idea of a department-store mannequin brought to life, an early expression of an idea that would be re-used by many later writers in television and films."

  Mother Goose in Prose by L. Frank Baum, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Mother Goose in Prose is a collection of twenty-two children's stories based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes. It was the first children's book written by L. Frank Baum, and the first book illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. It was originally published in 1897 by Way and Williams of Chicago, and re-released by the George M. Hill Company in 1901.  The book opens with an introduction by Baum that traces the history of Mother Goose. It is followed by the original text of a nursery rhyme with a broader story to establish its literary context... The book's last selection features a girl named Dorothy who can talk to animals — an anticipation of the Oz books. When Baum later included this story in his Juvenile Speaker (1910) and The Snuggle Tales (1916–17), he changed the girl's name to Doris, to avoid confusing her with Dorothy Gale."

  Twinkle Tales and Policeman Bluejay by Laura Bancroft [L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books], $2.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Twinkle Tales is a 1905 series by L. Frank Baum, published under the pen name Laura Bancroft. The six stories were issued in separate booklets by Baum's publisher Reilly & Britton, with illustrations by Maginel Wright Enright. In 1911, the six eight-chapter stories were collected as Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland — which is a misnomer, since Chubbins appears in only two stories and few are set in "Nature-Fairyland"...  The series was a hit; Reilly & Britton sold 40,000 copies of the little books in a short time. Such commercial success justified a sequel: Baum took his Policeman Bluejay character from the Twinkle Tale "Bandit Jim Crow" and cast him in a separate novel, to be issued the following year."

  Twinkle and Chubbins by Laura Bancroft [L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books], $1.99  Add to Cart

  Policeman Bluejay by Laura Bancroft [L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books], $1.99  Add to Cart

  Santa Claus Stories by L. Frank Baum, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes the book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus and the short story Kidnapped Santa Claus.  According to Wikipedia: "The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is a 1902 children's book, written by L. Frank Baum… In 1904, a short story called A Kidnapped Santa Claus, by Baum, appeared in The Delineator magazine... The story deals with Santa Claus's kidnapping by the Daemons of the caves, in an effort to thwart his yearly delivery of toys. However, Claus's assistants complete the task for him, and later attempt an unnecessary rescue.."


  The Bluebird Books: five novels by Edith Van Dyne [L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books], $2.99  Add to Cart

Five novels originally published between 1916 and 1922, written by Frank Baum, author of the Oz books, under the name of Edith Van Dyne.  This file includes: Mary Louise, Mary Louise inthe country, Mary Louise Solves a Mystery, Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls, and Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman. According to Wikipedia: "The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym... Baum wrote the first four books in the series, possibly with help from his son, Harry Neal Baum, on the third. The fifth book is based on a fragment by Baum and written by an unknown author... The books are concerned with adolescent girl detectives... The Bluebird series began with Mary Louise, originally written as a tribute to Baum's favorite sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster."

  Aunt Jane's Nieces: all 10 novels of the series by Edith Van Dyne [L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books], $4.99 Add to Cart

Series of novels for teenage girls, first published between 1906 and 1915.  This file includes: Aunt Jane's Nieces, Aunt Janes Nieces Abroad, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville, Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work, Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society, Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John, aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation, Autn Jane's Nieces on the Ranch, aunt Jane's Nieces Out West, ad Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross. According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known now as simply The Wizard of Oz."

Ambrose Bierce: 13 Books, $2.99, Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 13 books: Black Beetles in Amber (poetry); Can Such Things Be? (collection of stories); Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, written under the pen name of Don Grile (collection of short fables); A Cynic Looks at Life (essay); The Devil's Dictionary; Fantastic Fables (collection of short fables); The Fiend's Delight, written under the pen name of Don Grile, (collection of short stories); An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (short story); The Parenticide Club (collection of short stories); Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories (collection of short stories); Shadow on the Dial (collection of essays); Shapes of Clay (poetry); A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky (two short stories); Write It Right: a Little Blacklist of Literary Faults (essay); and volumes 1, 2, and 8 of his Collected Works.  According to Wikipedia: "Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer and satirist. Today, he is best known for his short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and his satirical dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary. The sardonic view of human nature that informed his work – along with his vehemence as a critic – earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce."... In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain a firsthand perspective on that country's ongoing revolution. While traveling with rebel troops, the elderly writer disappeared without a trace."

Mars, Barsoom, John Carter five novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: A Princess of Mars, 1912 (the book that the movie "John Carter" was based on); The Gods of Mars, 1914; The Warlord of Mars, 1918; Thuvia, Maid of Mars, 1920; and The Chessmen of Mars, all of which are in the "Barsoom" series.  According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres." Also according to Wikipedia: "Barsoom is a fictional version of the planet Mars invented by author Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. In 1911, Burroughs, now better known as the creator of the character Tarzan, began his writing career with A Princess of Mars, a rousing tale of pulp adventure set on the planet. Several sequels followed, filling out his vision of Barsoom and developing it in more detail. A Princess of Mars was possibly the first fiction of the 20th century to feature a constructed language; although Barsoomian was not particularly developed, it did add verisimilitude to the narrative."

Tarzan: 8 novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Tarzan of the Apes, 1912; Return of Tarzan, 1913; Beasts of Tarzan, 1914; Son of Tarzan, 1914, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, 1916; Jungle Tales of Tarzan, 1916; Tarzan the Untamed, 1919; and Tarzan the Terrible, 1921.  With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a book title to go there; and use the Back button to return to the table of contents.  According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres." Also according to Wikipedia: "Tarzan is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by apes, who later returns to civilization only to largely reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adventurer. Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan first appeared in the novel Tarzan of the Apes (magazine publication 1912, book publication 1914)..."

Caspak: 3 novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes The Land that Time Forgot, 1918; The People that Time Forgot, 1918; and Out of Time's Abyss, 1918.  According to Wikipedia: "Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic John Carter, although he produced works in many genres."

  Chivalry by James Branch Cabell, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

Novel set in the Middle Ages, first published in 1909According to Wikipedia: "James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres... Cabell's work was thought of very highly by a number of his peers, including Mark Twain, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joseph Hergesheimer, and Jack Woodford. When Twain died he was reading Cabell's Chivalry. And although now largely forgotten by the general public, his work was remarkably influential on later authors of fantastic fiction... Cabell's eighth (and best-known) book, Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice (1919), was the subject of a celebrated obscenity case shortly after its publication. The eponymous hero, who considers himself a "monstrous clever fellow", embarks on a journey through ever more fantastic realms, even to hell and heaven. Everywhere he goes, he winds up seducing the local women, even the Devil's wife."

Willa Cather: seven books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes Willa Cather's first five and best known novels: Alexander's Bridge, O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, My Antonia, and One of Ours.  It also includes the short story collection Youth and the Bright Medusa, and a Collection of Stories, Reviews, and Essays.  According to Wikipedia: "Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[1] – April 24, 1947) was an American author who grew up in Nebraska. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark...Cather was celebrated by critics like H.L. Mencken for writing in plainspoken language about ordinary people. When novelist Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he paid homage to her by saying that Cather should have won the honor."

O Pioneers! The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia by Willa Cather, $2.99   Add to Cart

Three classic novels by Willa Cather.  According to Wikipedia: "Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873[1] – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at age 33 she moved to New York where she lived for the rest of her life."

The Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper, all 5 Natty Bumppo novels, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie. According to Wikipedia: "The Leatherstocking Tales is a series of novels by American writer James Fenimore Cooper, each featuring the main hero Natty Bumppo, known by European settlers as "Leatherstocking," 'The Pathfinder", and "the trapper" and by the Native Americans as "Deerslayer," "La Longue Carabine" and "Hawkeye"."

Stephen Crane: 12 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Active Service, Black Riders and Other Lines (poetry), The Little Regiment and Other Episodes of the American Civil War, Last Words,  Maggie: a Girl of the Streets, The Monster and Other Stories; Men, Women and Boats; ORuddy, The Red Badge of Courage, The Third Violet, War Is Kind (poetry), and Whilomville Stories. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Crane (November 1, 1871 – June 5, 1900) was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism. He is recognized by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation."

  Francis Marion Crawford: 27 books, $4.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Adam Johnstone's Son, An American Politician, Casa Braccio, A Cigarette-Maker's Romance, Doctor Claudius, Don Orsino, Fair Margaret, Greifenstein, The Heart of Rome, In the Palace of the King, The Little City of Hope, Man Overboard! Marietta, Marzio's Crucifix and Zoroaster, Mr. Isaacs, Paul Patoff, The Primadonna, A Roman Singer, Sant' Ilairo, Saracinesca, A Tale of a Lonely Parish, Taquisara, The Upper Berth, Via Crucis, The White Sister, Whosoever Shall Offend, and The Witch of Prague. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories... Year by year Crawford published a number of successful novels. Late in the 1890's he began to write the historical works. These are: Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) renamed Southern Italy and Sicily and The Rulers of the South in 1905 for the American market, and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905) with the American title Salvae Venetia, itself reissued in 1909 as Venice; the Place and the People. In these his intimate knowledge of local Italian history combines with the romanticist's imaginative faculty to excellent effect. His shorter book Constantinople (1895) belongs to this category. After most of his fictional works had been published, most came to think he was a gifted narrator; and his books of fiction, full of historic vitality and dramatic characterization, became widely popular among readers to whom the realism of problems or the eccentricities of subjective analysis were repellent. In The Novel: What It Is (1893), he defended his literary approach, self-conceived as a combination of romanticism and realism, defining the art form in terms of its marketplace and audience."


  John Dos Passos: Four Early Books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes One Man's Initiation (novel), Three Soldiers (novel), Rosinante to the Road Again (essays), and A Pushcart at the Curb (poetry) . According to Wikipedia: "John Roderigo Dos Passos (January 14, 1896 – September 28, 1970) was an American novelist and artist...  Dos Passos' pioneering works of nonlinear fiction were a major influence in the field. In particular Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz and Jean-Paul Sartre's The Roads To Freedom trilogy show the influence of his methods. In an often cited 1936 essay, Sartre referred to Dos Passos as "the greatest writer of our time". Perhaps the best-known work partaking of the collage technique found in U.S.A. is science fiction writer John Brunner's Hugo Award-winning 1968 "non-novel" Stand on Zanzibar, in which Brunner makes use of fictitious newspaper clippings, television announcements, and other "samples" taken from the news and entertainment media of the year 2010. Joe Haldeman's novel Mindbridge also uses the collage technique, as does his short story, "To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal".


Theodore Dreiser: 5 novels, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Sister Carrie (1900), Jennie Gerhardt (1911), The Financier (1912), The Titan (1914, and Twelve Men (1919). According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) was an American novelist and journalist. He pioneered the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose value lies not in their moral code, but in their persistence against all obstacles, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency... His first novel, Sister Carrie (1900), tells the story of a woman who flees her country life for the city (Chicago) and falls into a wayward life. The publisher did little to promote the book, and it sold poorly[citation needed], however it was made into a 1952 film by William Wyler and starred Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones. He was a witness to a lynching in 1893, and wrote the short story "Nigger Jeff", which appeared in Ainslee's Magazine, in 1901. His second novel, Jennie Gerhardt, was published in 1911. Many of Dreiser's subsequent novels dealt with social inequality. His first commercial success was An American Tragedy (1925), which was made into a film in 1931 and again in 1951."

Emerson's Essays (first and second series), $2.99   Add to Cart

Series 1 and 2. According to Wikipedia: "Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs of his contemporaries, formulating and expressing the philosophy of Transcendentalism in his 1836 essay, Nature. As a result of this ground breaking work he gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. considered to be America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence". Emerson once said "Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." Considered one of the great orators of the time, Emerson's enthusiasm and respect for his audience enraptured crowds. His support for abolitionism late in life created controversy, and at times he was subject to abuse from crowds while speaking on the topic, however this was not always the case. When asked to sum up his work, he said his central doctrine was "the infinitude of the private man."

F. Scott Fitzgerald: four early books, $1.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Beautiful and Damned, Flappers and Philosophers, Tales of the Jazz Age, and This Side of Paradise. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the Twenties. He finished four novels, including The Great Gatsby, with another published posthumously, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth and promise along with despair and age... Fitzgerald's work and legend has inspired writers ever since he was first published."

Anna Katharine Green: 12 Mystery Novels, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Bronze Hand, The Chief Legatee, The Circular Study, The Golden Slipper, The House in the Mist, The Leavenworth Case, The Mill Mystery, The Millionaire Baby, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, The Old Stone House and Other Stories, A Strange Disappearance, and That Affair Next Door. According to Wikipedia: "Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories."

Nathaniel Hawthorne: 7 Novels, 8 Books of Short Stories, and 9 Non-Fiction Books, $5.99   Add to Cart

This file includes 7 novels (Fanshawe, Scarlet Letter, House of the Seven Gables, Blithedale Romance, Marble Faun, Septimius Felton, and Doctor Grimshawe's Secret), 8 books of Short Stories (From Mosses from an Old Manse, The Great Stone Face and Other Tales, From The Snow Imag, A Book of Autographs, The Dolliver Romance (fragments), Other Tales and Sketches, Tanglewood Tales, and Twice-Told Tales), and 9 Non-Fiction books (Passages from the American Note-Books, Passages from the English Note-Books, Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books, Biographical Studies, True STories of History and Biography, Sketches and Studies, Our Old Home, Journal of an African Cruiser, and The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair.

Nathaniel Hawthorne: 7 novels, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Fanshawe (1828), The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), The Blithedale Romance (1852), The Marble Faun (1860), Septimius Felton (1872), and Doctor Grimshawe's Secret (1882). According to Wikipedia: Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College and graduated in 1825; his classmates included future president Franklin Pierce and future poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. He published several short stories in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales...  The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, leaving behind his wife and their three children. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers around New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, dark romanticism."

Nathaniel Hawthorne: 8 books of short stories, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: From Mosses from an Old Manse, The Great Stone Face and other Tales of the White Mountains, A Book of Autographs, The Dolliver Romance (fragments), Other Tales and Sketches, Tanglewood Tales, and Twice-Told Tales (edition of 1889).

Nathaniel Hawthorne: 9 non-fiction books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Passages from the American Note-Books, Passages from the English Note-Books, Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books, Biographical Studies, True Stories of History and Biography, Sketches and Studies, Our Old Home, Journal of an African Cruiser, and The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne: 10 Books About Him, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Authors and Friends by Annie Fields, Brook Farm by John Thomas Codman, Hawthorne by Henry James, The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns, Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne lathrop, My Friends at Boork Farm by John van Dee Zee Sears, Nathaniel Hawthorne by George E. Woodberry, Sketches from Concord and Appledore by Frank Preston Stearns, A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons lathrop, and Yesterdays with Authors by James Fields. According to Wikipedia: "Contemporary response to Hawthorne's work praised his sentimentality and moral purity while more modern evaluations focus on the dark psychological complexity. One of these contemporaries, Edgar Allan Poe, wrote important and largely flattering reviews of both Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse. Poe's negative assessment was partly due to his own contempt of allegory and moral tales, and his chronic accusations of plagiarism, though he admitted, "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. His tone is singularly effective—wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes... We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth".


O. Henry: 13 Books of Short Stories, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes the following book-length collections of short stories: Cabbages and Kings, The Four Million, The Gentle Grafter, Heart of the West, Options, Roads of Destiny, Rolling Stones, Sixes and Sevens, Strictly Business, The Trimmed Lamp, The Voice of the City, Waifs and Strays, and Whirligigs. According to Wikipedia: "O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings…. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. Fundamentally a product of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age. Whether roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter," or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York, O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. The Four Million is another collection of stories. It opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'" To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway."

The Bobbsey Twins: 13 Books by Laura Lee Hope, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes 13 books: The Bobbsey Twins, The Bobbsey Twins at Home, The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook, The Bobbsey Twins at School, The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge, The Bobbsey Times at the County Fair, The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore, The Bobbsey Twins at a Great City, The Bobbsey Twins in the Country, The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West, The Bobbsey Twins in Washington, The Bobbsey Twins in a Houseboat, and The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island. According to Wikipedia: "The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for many years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of children's novels, penned under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope. The first of 72 books was published in 1904, the last in 1979. The books related the adventures of the children of the middle-class Bobbsey family, which included two sets of mixed-gender fraternal twins: Bert and Nan, who were 12 years old, and Flossie and Freddie, who were six."

Washington Irving's Fiction: 7 Books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey, Old Christmas, Bracebridge Hall, The Crayon Papers, Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, and Tales of a Traveller. According to Wikipedia: "Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving also served as the U.S. minister to Spain from 1842 to 1846. He made his literary debut in 1802 with a series of observational letters to the Morning Chronicle, written under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle. After moving to England for the family business in 1815, he achieved international fame with the publication of The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. in 1819. He continued to publish regularly—and almost always successfully—throughout his life, and completed a five-volume biography of George Washington just eight months before his death, at age 76, in Tarrytown, New York. Irving, along with James Fenimore Cooper, was among the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving encouraged American authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe."

Washington Irving's Non-Fiction: 5 Books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, Astoria, Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, Oliver Goldsmith, and Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies.

Henry James: 40 Books, $4.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Ambassadors, The American, The Aspern Papers, The Author of Beltraffio, The Awkward Age, The Beast in the Jungle, The Bostonians volume 1, The Bostonians volume 2, Confidence, The Coxon Fund, Daisy Miller, Embarrassments, Eugene Pickering, The Europeans, The Finer Grain, Georgina's Reasons, Glasses, The Golden Bowl, In the Cage, An International Episode, Italian Hours, The Lesson of the Master, A Little Tour of France, A London Life/ The Patagonia/The Liar/ Mrs. Temperly, Madame de Mauves, The Outcry, Pandora, Pension Beaurepas, Picture and Text, The Portrait of a Lady volume 1, The Portrait of a Lady volume 2, The Point of View, The Reverberator, Roderick Hudson, Sir Dominick Ferrand, Some Short Stories by Henry James, The Tragic Muse, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square, What Maisie Knew, and The Wings of the Dove. According to Wikipedia: "Henry James (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916) was an American writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. James spent the last 40 years of his life in England, becoming a British subject in 1915, one year before his death. He is primarily known for a series of novels in which he portrays the encounter of Americans with Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allows him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting."

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James both volumes, $1.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayal."

The Golden Bowl by Henry James, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses.  The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters, with sometimes obsessive detail but also with powerful insight. The title is a quotation from Ecclesiastes 12:6, "…or the golden bowl be broken, …then shall the dust return to the earth as it was".

The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. This novel tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested."

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have argued that the true brilliance of the novella comes with its ability to create an intimate confusion and suspense for the reader."

Sinclair Lewis: seven novels, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Our Mr. Wrenn (1914), The Trail of the Hawk (1915), The Innocents (1917), The Job (1917), Free Air (1919), Main Street (1920), and Babbitt (1922). According to Wikipedia: "Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters." His works are known for their insightful and critical views of American society and capitalist values, as well as their strong characterizations of modern working women."


Jack London: 43 books, $4.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: MEMOIRS - John Barleycorn, The Road; NOVELS - The Cruise of the Dazzler, A Daughter of the Snows, The Call of the Wild, Sea-Wolf, The Game, White Fang, Before Adam, The Iron Heel, Martin Eden, Burning Daylight, Adventure, Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Valley of the Moon, Mutiny of the Elsinore, The Little Lady of the Big House, Jerry of the Islands, Michael Brother of Jerry SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS - Son of the Wolf, Children of the Frost, Tales of the Fish Patrol, South Sea Tales, Smoke Bellew, The Turtles of Tasman, Dutch Courage and Other Stories, The Faith of Men, Moon Face, Lost Face, Human Drift, The House of Pride, The Night Born, On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales, Strength of the Strong, Tales of the Klondyke, When God Laughs and Other Stories PLAYS - Theft, The Acorn Planter NON-FICTION AND ESSAYS - The People of the Abyss, War of the Classes, Revolution and Other Essays, The Cruise of the Snark.  According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (12 January, 1876 – 22 November, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."

Herman Melville: 10 novels, 1 short story collection, and two books of poetry , $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes the short story collection "Piazza Tales" and nine novels: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White Jacket, Moby Dick, Israel Potter, Confidence-Man, and Billy Budd.  According to Wikipedia: "Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and poet. His first two books gained much attention, though they were not bestsellers, and his popularity declined precipitously after only a few years. By the time of his death he had been almost completely forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and most responsible for Melville's fall from favor with the reading public — was recognized in the 20th century as one of the chief literary masterpieces of both American and world literature..."

  Typee, a Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Typee (1846; in full: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life) is American writer Herman Melville's first book, a classic in the literature of travel and adventure partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on the island Nuku HivaMarquesas Islands, in 1842. The title comes from the name of a valley there called Tai Pi Vai. It was Melville's most popular work during his lifetime, but made him notorious as the "man who lived among the cannibals." For 19th century readers, his career seemed to decline afterward, but during the early 20th century it was seen as the beginning of a career that peaked with Moby-Dick (1851)."

  Omoo by Herman Melville, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (pronounced OH-moo) is Herman Melville's sequel to Typee, and, as such, was also autobiographical. After leaving Nuku Hiva, the main character ships aboard a whalingTahiti, after which there is a mutiny and the majority of the crew are imprisoned on Tahiti. The book follows the actions of the narrator as he explores Tahiti and remarks on their customs and way of life. The novel was composed in 1846 and published in London and New York in the spring of 1847." vessel which makes its way to

Moby Dick or the Whale by Herman Melville, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851.[2] It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels and a treasure of world literature. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge."


  Edgar Allan Poe's Works, The Raven Edition, all 5 volumes, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection  file contains all five volumes of The Raven edition. Life of Poe, by James Russell Lowell; Death of Poe, by N. P. Willis; The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfaal; The Gold-Bug; Four Beasts in One; The Murders in the Rue Morgue; The Mystery of Marie Rogêt; The Balloon-Hoax; MS. Found in a Bottle;  and The Oval Portrait; The Purloined Letter; The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherezade; A Descent into the Maelström; Von Kempelen and his Discovery; Mesmeric Revelation; The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Black Cat; The Fall of the House of Usher; Silence - a Fable; The Masque of the Red Death; The Cask of Amontillado; The Imp of the Perverse; The Island of the Fay; The Assignation; The Pit and the Pendulum; The Premature Burial; The Domain of Arnheim; Landor's Cottage; William Wilson; The Tell-Tale Heart; Berenice; and Eleonora Narrative of A. Gordon Pym; Ligeia; Morella; A Tale of the Ragged Mountains; The Spectacles; King Pest; Three Sundays in a Week; The Devil in the Belfry; Lionizing; X-ing a Paragrab; Metzengerstein; The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether; How to Write a Blackwood article; A Predicament; Mystification Diddling; The Angel of the Odd; Mellonta Tauta; The Duc de l'Omelette; The Oblong Box; Loss of Breath; The Man That Was Used Up; The Business Man; The Landscape Garden; Maelzel's Chess-Player; The Power of Words; The Colloquy of Monos and Una; The Conversation of Eros and Charmion; and Shadow.-A Parable; Philosophy of Furniture; A Tale of Jerusalem; The Sphinx; Hop-Frog; The Man of the Crowd; Never Bet the Devil Your Head; Thou Art the Man; Why the Little Frenchman Wears his Hand in a Sling; Bon-Bon; Some words with a Mummy; The Poetic Principle; Old English Poetry; and POEMS.  

  Eureka: a Prose Poem, an Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe by Edgar Allan Poe, $1.99 Add to Cart
Illustrated with the one diagram that appears in the original. According to Wikipedia: "Eureka (1848) is a lengthy non-fiction work by American author Edgar Allan Poe which he subtitled "A Prose Poem", though it has also been subtitled as "An Essay on the Material and Spiritual Universe". Adapted from a lecture he had presented, Eureka describes Poe's intuitive conception of the nature of the universe with no scientific work done to reach his conclusions. He also discusses man's relationship with God, whom he compares to an author. It is dedicated to the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. Though it is generally considered a literary work, some of Poe's ideas anticipate discoveries of the 20th century. Indeed a critical analysis of the scientific content of Eureka reveals a non-causal correspondence with modern cosmology due to the assumption of an evolving Universe, but excludes the anachronistic anticipation of relativistic concepts such as black holes."

C. Auguste Dupin, Detective: Three Mystery Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, $1.99

This file includes three classic mystery stories: The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842), and The Purloined Letter (1844). Each of these stories features the same detective: C. Auguste Dupin. According to Wikipedia: "Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin is a fictional detective created by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin made his first appearance in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841), widely considered the first detective fiction story.[1] He reappears in "The Mystery of Marie Rogêt" (1842) and "The Purloined Letter" (1844). Dupin is not a professional detective and his motivations for solving the mysteries throughout the three stories change. Using what Poe termed "ratiocination", Dupin combines his considerable intellect with creative imagination, even putting himself in the mind of the criminal. His talents are strong enough that he appears able to read the mind of his companion, the unnamed narrator of all three stories. Poe created the Dupin character before the word detective had been coined. It is unclear what inspired him, but the character's name seems to imply "duping", or deception. The character laid the groundwork for fictitious detectives to come, including Sherlock Holmes, and established most of the common elements of the detective fiction genre."

  Pollyanna Plus 10 Other Books by Eleanor Porter, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Pollyanna, Pollyanna Grows Up, Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy -- Married, Across the Years, Dawn, Just David, Mary Marie, Oh Money! Mone! and Tangled Threads. According to Wikipedia: "Eleanor Hodgman Porter (December 19, 1868 – May 21, 1920) was an American novelist. Born in Littleton, New Hampshire, Eleanor Hodgman was trained as a singer but later turned to writing. In 1892, she married John Lyman Porter and moved to Massachusetts. Porter mainly wrote children's literature, including three Miss Billy books (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, and Miss Billy Married), Cross Currents (1928), The Turn of the Tide (1928), and Six Star Ranch (1916). Her most famous novel is Pollyanna (1913), later followed by a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Her adult novels include The Story of Marco (1920), Just David (1915), The Road to Understanding (1916), Oh Money Money (1917), Dawn (1918), Keith's Dark Tower (1919), Mary Marie (1920), and Sister Sue (1921); her short stories include "Money, Love and Kate" (1924) and "Little Pardner" (1927)."

Howard Pyle: 8 adventure books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Book of Pirates, Men of Iron, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, The Ruby of Kishmoor, Stolen Treasure, The Story of the Champions of the Round Table, and Twilight Land.  With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a book title to go to that book; and use the Back button to return to the table of contents. According to Wikipedia: "Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. "

  Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

"Being an Account of Certain Adventures that Befell Henry Mostyn under Captain H. Morgan in the Year 1665-66." According to Wikipedia: "Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people... His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating the now stereotypical modern image of pirate dress."

  The Story of the Champions of the Round Table by Howard Pyle, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Foreword begins: "In a book which was written by me aforetime, and which was set forth in print, I therein told much of the history of King Arthur; of how he manifested his royalty in the achievement of that wonderful magic sword which he drew forth out of the anvil; of how he established his royalty; of how he found a splendid sword yclept Excalibur in a miraculously wonderful manner; of how he won the most beautiful lady in the world for his queen; and of how he established the famous Round Table of noble worthy knights, the like of whose prowess the world hath never seen, and will not be likely ever to behold again.."

The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Howard Pyle, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

First published in 1907.  According to Wikipedia: "Sir Lancelot was one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. He was the most trusted of King Arthur's knights and played a part in many of Arthur's victories. Lancelot is best known for his love affair with Arthur's wife Guinevere and the role he played in the search for the Holy Grail. He is also known as the most loyal friend of Arthur's nephew, Sir Gawaine...  Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people… His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur."

  The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

The Preface begins: "You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to the leaves and go no farther than this, for I tell you plainly that if you go farther you will be scandalized by seeing good, sober folks of real history so frisk and caper in gay colors and motley that you would not know them but for the names tagged to them. Here is a stout, lusty fellow with a quick temper, yet none so ill for all that, who goes by the name of Henry II.  Here is a fair, gentle lady before whom all the others bow and call her Queen Eleanor.  Here is a fat rogue of a fellow, dressed up in rich robes of a clerical kind, that all the good folk call my Lord Bishop of Hereford.  Here is a certain fellow with a sour temper and a grim look--the worshipful, the Sheriff of Nottingham..."

 The Book of Pirates by Howard Pyle, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

Fiction, fact and fancy concerning the bucaneers and marooners of the Spanish Main, from the writings of Howard Pyle.  According to Wikipedia: "Howard Pyle (March 5, 1853 – November 9, 1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people... His 1883 classic publication The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur. He is also well known for his illustrations of pirates, and is credited with creating the now stereotypical modern image of pirate dress."

Mary Roberts Rinehart: 22 Novels, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes the following classic mysteries: The Man in Lower Ten (1906), The Circular Staircase (1908), When a Man Marries (1910), Where There's a Will (1912), The Case of Jennie Brice (1913), The Street of Seven Stars (1914), The After House (1914), K (1915), Long Live the King (1917), The Amazing Interlude (1918), Dangerous Days (1919), Love Stories (1919), A Poor Wise Man (1920), The Bat (1920), The Confession (1921), Sight Unseen (1921), The Breaking Point (1922). According to Wikipedia: "Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876-September 22, 1958) was a prolific author often called the American Agatha Christie. She is considered the source of the phrase "The butler did it", although she did not actually use the phrase herself, and also considered to have invented the "Had-I-But-Known" school of mystery writing... Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and special articles. Many of her books and plays were adapted for movies..."

  The Wreck of the Titan or Futility and Other Stories by Morgan Robertson, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is an 1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson. The story features the ocean liner Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. The Titan and its sinking have been noted to be very similar to the real-life passenger ship RMS Titanic, which sank fourteen years later. Following the wreck the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage, to make it closer to the Titanic... Morgan Andrew Robertson (September 30, 1861–March 24, 1915) was a well-known American author of short stories and novels, and the self-claimed inventor of the periscope."


Ernest Thompson Seton: eight books about animals, $2.99    Add to Cart

This file includes: Animal Heroes; The Biography of a Grizzly; Lobo, Rag, and Vixen; Johnny Bear and Other Stories; Monarch, the big Bear of Tallac; Rolf in the Woods; Two Little Savages; and Wild Animals I Have Known. According to Wikipedia: "Ernest Thompson Seton (August 14, 1860 - October 23, 1946) was a Scots-Canadian (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who became a noted author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians, and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). Seton also heavily influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting. His notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and The Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the strong influence of American Indian culture in the BSA."


  Upton Sinclair: 13 Books and 5 Plays, $4.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Novels -- Damaged Goods, based on the play "Les Avaries" by Eugene Brieux, 1913; Jimmie Higgins, 1919; The Jungle, 1906; King Coal, 1917; King Midas, a Romance, 1901; Love's Pilgrimage, 1911; The Metropolis, 1908; The Moneychangers, 1908; 100%: The Story of a Patriot, 1920; Samuel the Seeker, 1909; Sylvia's Marriage, 1915; They Call Me Carpenter, a Tale of the Second Coming, 1922; Non-Fiction -- The Profits of Religion: an Essay in Economic Interpretation, 1917; Plays -- The Machine, 1911; The Naturewoman; The Pot Boiler, 1913; Prince Hagen, 1903; and The Second-Story Man. According to Wikipedia: "Upton Sinclair, Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968), was a Pulitzer Prize-winning prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres."


Frank Stockton: 10 Novels, $2.99   Add to Cart

These ten novels include Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts, The Girl At Cobhurst, The Great Stone Of Sardis, The Great War Syndicate, The House Of Martha, A Jolly Fellowship, Kate Bonnet (The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter), Rudder Grange, The Squirrel Inn, and The Vizier Of The Two-Horned Alexander. According to Wikipedia, "Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 – April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Stockton avoided the didactic moralizing, common to children's stories of the time, instead using clever humor to poke at greed, violence, abuse of power and other human foibles, describing his fantastic characters' adventures in a charming, matter-of-fact way in stories like "The Griffin and the Minor Canon" (1885) and "The Bee-Man of Orn" (1887), which was published in 1964 in an edition illustrated by Maurice Sendak. His most famous fable is "The Lady, or the Tiger?" (1882)."


Gene Stratton-Porter: 11 books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: At the Foot of the Rainbow, A Daughter of the Land, The Fire Bird, Freckles, A Girl of the Limberlost, The Harvester, Her Father's Daughter, Laddie, Michael O'Halloran, Moths of the Limberlost, and The Song of the Cardinal. According to Wikipedia: "Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world. She used her position and income as a well-known author to support conservation of Limberlost Swamp and other wetlands in the state of Indiana."


The Harvester by Gene Stratton-Porter, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day... She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shane's", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books. Although Stratton-Porter wanted to focus on nature books, it was her romantic novels that made her famous and generated the finances that allowed her to pursue her nature studies. She was an accomplished author, artist and photographer and is generally considered to be one of the first female authors to promulgate public positions — in her case, conserving the Limberlost Swamp."

  Moths of the Limberlost, a Book about Limberlost Cabin by Gene Stratton-Porter, $1.99 Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 – December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some best-selling novels and well-received columns in national magazines, such as McCalls. Her works were translated into several languages, including Braille, and Stratton-Porter was estimated to have had 50 million readers around the world."


Albert Payson Terhune: six books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes Bruce, His Dog, Lad, Further Adventures of Lad, Black Caesar's Clan, and Superwomen. According to Wikipedia: "Albert Payson Terhune (December 21, 1872 – February 18, 1942) was an American author, dog breeder, and journalist. The public knows him best for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies. ... Many of his stories were originally published in magazines such as Redbook, Greenbook, AKC Gazette, and Ladies Home Journal. The first of his books about his dogs, Lad: A Dog, collected a dozen stories about the most famous of the Sunnybank dogs, Lad, was first published in 1919 and has remained in print since that year."


Mark Twain: 24 Books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 8 novels: The Gilded Are, Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Huckleberry finn, a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The American Claimant, Pudd'nhead Wilson, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc;  5 book-length collections of stories: The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories, Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories, The Curious Republic of gondour and other Whimsical Sketches, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories, and A Mysterious Stranger; 11 individual stories: 1601, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heave, The Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut, A Dog's Tale, A Double Barreled Detective, Extracts from Adam's Diary, Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again, A Horse's Tale, Those Extraordinary Twins, Tom Sawyer Abroad, and Tom Sawyer Detective; 6 travel books and memoirs: Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Chapters from My Autobiography; books of Mark Twain's speeches and letters, plus 3 book-length collections of essays: What is Man? Sketches New and Old, and Christian Science. It also includes the following short collections and individual essays: Editorial Wild Oats, Essays on Paul Bourget, Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, and In Defence of Harriet Shelley. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835 – 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature."

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Illustrated, by Mark Twain, $1.99   Add to Cart

The 1886 edition, with over a hundred illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas "Tom" Sawyer is the title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894), and Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)... Tom Sawyer's best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom's infatuation with classmate Rebecca "Becky" Thatcher is apparent. He lives with his half brother Sid, his cousin Mary, and his stern Aunt Polly in the (fictional) town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. In addition, he has another aunt, Sally Phelps, who lives considerably farther down the Mississippi River, in the town of Pikesville. Tom is the son of Aunt Polly's dead sister."

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Illustrated, by Mark Twain, $1.99  Add to Cart

The 1885 edition, with 174 illustrations.  According to Wikipedia: "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."


The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Pudd'nhead Wilson is a novel by Mark Twain. It was serialized in The Century Magazine (1893–4), before being published as a novel in 1894... "The reader knows from the beginning who committed the murder, and the story foreshadows how the crime will be solved. The circumstances of the denouement, however, possessed in its time great novelty, for fingerprinting had not then come into official use in crime detection in the United States. Even a man who fooled around with it as a hobby was thought to be a simpleton, a 'pudd'nhead'." (From Langston Hughes' introduction to the novel). The story describes the racism of the antebellum south, even as to seemingly white people with minute traces of African ancestry, and the acceptance of that state of affairs by all involved, including the black population."

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Set in 1547, it tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII."

Edith Wharton: 21 books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 13 novels (Touchstone, Valley of Decision, Sanctuary, House of Mirth, Fruit of the Tree, Ethan Frome, The Reef, the Custom of the Country, Bunner Sisters, Summer, Age of Innocence, Glimpses of the Moon), 6 collections of stories (Crucial Instances, The Greater Inclination, Tales of Men and Ghosts, The Hermit and the Wild Woman, The Descent of Man, and Eleven Stories by Edith Wharton), a book of verse (Artemis to Actaeon), and two non-fiction books (Fighting France and In Morocco).  According to Wikipedia: "Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. ... The Age of Innocence (1920), perhaps her best known work, won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for literature, making her the first woman to win the award."

  Kate Douglas Wiggin: 21 books, $4.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Birds' Christmas Carol, Cathedral Courtship, The Diary of a Goose Girl, The Flag-Raising, Homespun Tales, Marm Lisa, Mother Carey's Chickens, New Chronicles of Rebecca, Penelope's English Experiences, Penelope's Experiences in Scotland, Penelope's Irish Experiences, Penelope's Postscripts, Polly Oliver's Problem, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Romance of a Christmas Carol, The Story of Patsy, The Story of Waitstill Baxter, A Summer in a Canyon, Timothy's Quest, A Village Stradivarius, and The Village Watch-Tower. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856–August 24, 1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. A graduate of Abbot Academy, Class of 1873, she started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers... Still devoted to her school, she began to raise money for it through writing, first The Story of Patsy (1883), then The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887). Both privately printed books were issued commercially by Houghton Mifflin in 1889, with enormous success. Ironically, considering her intense love of children, Kate Wiggin had none. Her husband died suddenly in 1889, and Kate took her grief home to Maine. For the rest of her life she struggled with depression, and in order to combat it she traveled as frequently as she could, dividing her time between writing, trips to Europe, and giving public reading for the benefit of various children's charities. Her literary output included popular books for adults, scholarly work on the educational principles of Friedrich Froebel, and of course the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903) Wiggin's home in the Salmon Falls section of Hollis, Maine."

Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Wiggin, $1.99  Add to Cart

Novel from the Penelope series. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -  1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."

  Penelope's English Experiences, Being Extracts from the Commonplace Books of Penelope Hamilton by Kate Douglas Wiggin, $1.99  Add to Cart

Novel from the Penelope series. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -  1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."

  Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Wiggin, $1.99  Add to Cart

Novel from the Penelope series. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -  1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."

  Penelope's Postscripts by Kate Douglas Wiggin, $1.99  Add to Cart

Stories from the Penelope series, including Penelope in Switzerland, Penelope in Venice, Penelope's Prints of Wales, Penelope in Devon, and Penelope at Home. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -  1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."




WESTERNS

B. M. Bower: 29 Classic Westerns, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Cabin Fever, Casey Ryan, Chip of the Flying U, Cow-Country, Flying U Ranch, The Flying-U's Last Stand, Good Indian, The Gringos, The Happy Family, Her Prairie Knight, The Heritage of the Sioux, Jean of the Lazy A, Lonesome Land, The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories, The Long Shadow, The Lookout Man, The Lure of the Dim Trails, The Phantom Herd, The Quirt, The Ranch At The Wolverine, The Range Dwellers, Rim O' The World, Rowdy of the "Cross L", Sawtooth Ranch, Skyrider, Starr of the Desert, The Thunder Bird, The Trail of the White Mule, and The Uphill Climb. According to Wikipedia: "Bertha Muzzy Sinclair or Sinclair-Cowan, née Muzzy (November 15, 1871 – July 23, 1940), best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American novelist who wrote fictional stories about the American Old West."

Max Brand: 13 Classic Westerns, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Alcatraz, Black Jack, Bull Hunter, Gunman's Reckoning, Harrigan, The Night Horseman, The Rangeland Avenger, Riders of the Silences, Ronicky Doone, The Seventh Man, Trailin', The Untamed, and Way of the Lawless.  According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Schiller Faust (May 29, 1892 - May 12, 1944) was an American fiction author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns. Faust wrote mostly under pen names, and today is primarily known by one, Max Brand. Others include George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, David Manning, John Frederick, Peter Morland, George Challis, and Frederick Frost. ... Faust managed a massive outpouring of fiction, rivaling Edgar Wallace and especially Isaac Asimov as one of the most prolific authors of all time. He wrote more than 500 novels for magazines and almost as many stories of shorter length. His total literary output is estimated to have been between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 words. Most of his books and stories were turned out at breakneck rate, sometimes as quickly as 12,000 words in the course of a weekend. New books based on magazine serials or unpublished manuscripts or restored versions continue to appear so that he has averaged a new book every four months for seventy-five years. Beyond this, some work by him is newly reprinted every week of every year in one or another format somewhere in the world."

John Fox, Jr.: 11 Classic Westerns, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Other Stories, Crittenden, Cumberland Vendetta, The Heart of the Hills, Hell Fer Sartain and Other Stories, In Happy Valley, A Knight of the Cumberland, The Last Stetson, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, a Mountain Europa, and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.  According to Wikipedia: "Born in Stony Point, Kentucky to John William Fox, Sr., and Minerva Worth Carr, Fox studied English at Harvard University... After working for both New York Times and the New York Sun, he published a successful serialization of his first novel, A Mountain Europa, in Century magazine in 1892. Two moderately successful short story collections followed, as well as his first conventional novel, The Kentuckians in 1898. Fox gained a following as a war correspondent, working for Harper's Weekly in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898, where he served with the "Rough Riders." Six years later he traveled to Asia to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Scribner's magazine. Though he occasionally wrote for periodicals, after 1904, Fox dedicated much of his attention to fiction. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (published in 1903) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (published in 1908) are arguably his most well known and successful works, entering the New York Times top ten list of bestselling novels for 1903, 1904, 1908, and 1909 respectively."

Zane Grey: 22 Classic Westerns, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Betty Zane, 1903; The Spirit of the Border, 1906; The Last of the Plainsmen, 1908; The Last Trail, 1909; The Heritage of the Desert, 1910; The Young Forester, 1910; Riders of the Purple Sage, 1912; Desert Gold, 1913; The Light of Western Stars, 1914; The Lone Star Ranger, 1915; The Rainbow Trail 1915; The Border Legion, 1916; Wildfire, 1917; The U. P. Trail, 1918;  The Desert of Wheat, 1919; Tales of Fishes, 1919; The Man of the Forest, 1920; The Redheaded OUtfiled and Other Baseball Stories; The Mysterious Rider, 1921; To the Last Man, 1921; The Day of the Beast, 1922;  and Tales of Lonely Trails, 1922.  With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, you click on a book title to go to that book; and use the Back button to return to the table of contents.  According to Wikipedia: "Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and stories that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West."

Emerson Hough: 13 Westerm Novels, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: 54-40 of Fight, The Covered Wagon, Girl at the Halfway House, Heart's Desire, The Law of the land, Maw's Vacation, The Mississippi bubble, The Purchase Price, The Sagebrusher, The Story of the Outlaw, The Way of a Man, The Young Alaskans, and The Young Alaskans on the Missouri. According to Wikipedia: "Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was an American author, best known for writing western stories. Hough was born in Newton, Iowa, and graduated from the University of Iowa with a law degree. He moved to White Oaks, New Mexico, and practiced law there but eventually turned to literary work by taking camping trips and writing about them for publication. He is best known as a novelist, writing The Mississippi Bubble as well as The Covered Wagon, about Oregon Trail pioneers, which later became successful as a movie, running 59 weeks at the Criterion Theater in New York City, passing the record set by Birth of a Nation. Other notable works included Story of the Cowboy, Way of the West, Singing Mouse Stories, and Passing of the Frontier, and writing the "Out-of-Doors" column for the Saturday Evening Post."

Frank Norris: 8 Western Novels, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Blix, A Deal in Wheat, A Man's Woman, McTeague, Moran of the Lady Letty, The Octopus, The Pit, The Surrender of Santiago (article), and Vandover and the Brute. According to Wikipedia: "Benjamin Franklin Norris, Jr. (March 5, 1870 – October 25, 1902) was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. His notable works include McTeague (1899), The Octopus: A California Story (1901), and The Pit (1903). Although he did not openly support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless evinces a socialist mentality and influenced socialist/progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense of it. Norris was particularly influenced by an optimistic strand of Darwinist philosophy taught by Joseph LeConte, whom Norris studied under while at the University of California, Berkeley. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague, runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," his animalistic tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso and the French naturalist Emile Zola."

William MacLeod Raine: 22 Classic Westerns, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes:  A Daughter Of Raasay A Tale Of The '45 - 1901; Wyoming, A Story Of The Outdoor West - 1908; Brand Blotters - 1909; Ridgway Of Montana - 1909; Bucky O'Connor - 1910; A Texas Ranger - 1910; Mavericks - 1911; The Vision Splendid - 1913; Crooked Trails And Straight - 1913; A Daughter Of The Dons - 1914; The Pirate Of Panama - 1914; The Highgrader - 1915; Steve Yeager 1915; The Sheriff's Son 1917; The Yukon Trail - 1917; A Man Four-Square - 1919; Oh, You Tex! - 1919; The Big-Town Round-Up - 1920; Gunsight Pass - 1921; Tangled Trails - 1921; Man-Size -1922; and The Fighting Edge - 1922. According to Wikipedia: "William MacLeod Raine (1871—1954), was a British-born American novelist who wrote fictional adventure stories about the American Old West."

Charles Alden Seltzer: 6 Classic Westerns, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Boss of the Lazy Y, "Drag" Harlan, The Range Boss, Square Deal Sanderson, The Trail Horde, and The Two-Gun Man.  According to Pulp Rack (quoting Adventure Fiction.com): "Charles Alden Seltzer (Aug. 15, 1875 - Feb. 9, 1942) ... Born ...  at the village of Janesville, Wisconsin. One year in Wisconsin. Then to Columbus, Ohio, where after a time I worked at various enterprises, such as newsboy, telegraph messenger, painter, carpenter and manager of the circulation of a newspaper. Spent the better part of five summer and some of the winters in Union County, New Mexico. At twenty I was in Cleveland, Ohio, where I was again a carpenter. Foreman, contractor. Began to write about this time -- nights. Thirteen years of writing without finding a publisher. In the interim I was engaged in various enterprises: Building inspector for the City of Cleveland, editor of a small newspaper, expert for the Cuyahoga County Board of Appraisers. Wrote and sold about one hundred short stories. Published a book of short stories called the Range Riders in 1911. A success. Followed it with a full length novel called The Two Gun Man in 1911. Another bell-ringer..."

   Stewart Edward White: 10 Novels, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Arizona Nights, Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life, The Blazed Trail, the Claim Jumpers, The Forest, The Forty-Niners, The Gray Dawn, The Killer, The Mountains, and The Riverman.  According to Wikipedia: "Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 – September 18, 1946) was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books."

Owen Wister: seven novels, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories; Lady Baltimore; Lin McLean; A Straight Deal; The Virginian; The Dragon of Wantley; and Red Men and White. According to Wikipedia: "Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer of western fiction."


HISTORICAL NOVELS

The World War Series by Joseph Altsheler, all 3 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes The Guns of Europe, The Hosts of the Air and The Forest of Swords.  According to the original publisher: "Mr. Altsheler, who was in Vienna the day war was declared on Servia in Munich when war was declared against Russia, and in England when the British forces were mobilizing, has given in these three volumes the impressions he gained at the places of action during the world crisis.... The Hosts of the Air: The pretty young sister of Phillip is seized by the enemy and carried into Austria. John resolves to get her back and his adventures make awonderfully exciting story... The Forest of Swords: The hero finds himself in Paris with Phillip Lannes, his friend, and the Germans only fifteen miles away. Finally the enemy is turned back at the Marne, a battle in which John and Phillip are actively engaged." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction."

The Civil War Series by Joseph Altsheler, all 8 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection includes: The Guns of Bull Run, The Guns of Shiloh, The Scouts of Stonewall, The Sword of Antietam, The Star of Gettysburg, The Rock of Chickamauga, The Shades of the Wilderness, and The Tree of Appomattox.  According to the original publisher, in the Civil War Series "Altsheler covers the principal battles of the Civil War. In four of the volumes Dick Mason, who fights for the North, is the leading character, and in the others, his cousin, Harry Kenton, who joins the Confederate forces, takes the principal part." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction."

The French and Indian War Series by Joseph Altsheler, all 6 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Lords of the Wild, The Hunters of the Hills, The Shadow of the North, The Sun of Quebec, The Rulers of the lakes, and The Masters of the Peaks. According to the original publisher, in the French and Indian War Series "Altsheler has endeavored to describe the events of the French and Indian War, the period in American History from 1754 to 1763. The central characters in the story are Robert Lennox, an American boy; Tayoga, an Onondaga Indian; and David Willet, a hunter. The books are all historically correct." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction."

The Young Trailers Series by Joseph Altsheler, all 8 novels, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Young Trailers, The Forest Runners, The Keepers of the Faith, The Eyes of the Woods, The Free Rangers, The Riflemen of the Ohio, The Scouts of the Valley, and The Border Watch.  According to the original publisher, in The Young Trailers Series, "Two boys, Henry Ware and Paul Cotter, and three scouts are the chief characters in these books dealing with frontier life and adventures with the Indians about the time of the Revolutionary War. Each story is complete in itself, full of excitement, and historically accurate." According to Wikipedia, "Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction."



AMERICAN HISTORY

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution by Mercy Otis Warren, $2.99   Add to Cart

Mercy Warren wrote early drafts of this 1300+ page book near the time of the events described. Mercy writes in the third person even when dealing with events involving her immediate family. James Otis (early advocate of the rights of the colonies) was her brother, and James Warren (speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives) was her husband. She was a close friend of John Adams, but differed sharply with his policies as President. In the wake of the French Revolution, Adams lost faith in democracy, while Mercy remained a staunch supporter of democracy, despite the risks. According to Wikipedia: "Warren, Mercy (1728-1814), American writer, sister of James Otis, was born at Barnstable, Mass., and in 1754 married James Warren (1726-1808) of Plymouth, Mass., a college friend of her brother. Her literary inclinations were fostered by both these men, and she began early to write poems and prose essays. As member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1766-1774) and its speaker (1776-1777 and 1787-1788), member (1774 and 1775) and president (1775) of the Provincial Congress, and paymaster-general in 1775, James Warren took a leading part in the events of the American revolutionary period, and his wife followed its progress with keen interest...In 1805 she published a History of the American Revolution, which was colored by somewhat outspoken personal criticism and was bitterly resented by John Adams..."

Democracy in America, in English and the original French, complete, $2.99  Add to Cart

The full text in both English and French and links from the tables of contents to every chapter. According to Wikipedia: "De la démocratie en Amérique (published in two volumes, the first in 1835 and the second in 1840) is a classic French text by Alexis de Tocqueville. A "literal" translation of its title is Of Democracy in America, but the usual translation of the title is simply Democracy in America. In the book, Tocqueville examines the democratic revolution that he believed had been occurring over the past seven-hundred years."

The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American novelist, journalist, historian and academic. He is best-known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. He was a member of the Adams political family.... He published The Education of Henry Adams in 1907, in a small private edition for selected friends, which curiously omitted the years 1872-'91 and his entire marriage. The work concerned the birth of forces Adams saw as replacing Christianity. For Adams, the Virgin Mary had shaped the old world, as the dynamo represented modernity. It was only following Adams's death that The Education was made available to the general public, in an edition issued by the Massachusetts Historical Society. It ranked first on the Modern Library's 1998 list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books and was named the best book of the twentieth century by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative organization that promotes classical education. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919."

The Federalist Papers, $1.99   Add to Cart

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. Seventy-seven of the essays were published serially in The Independent Journal and The New York Packet between October 1787 and August 1788. A compilation of these and eight others, called The Federalist; or, The New Constitution, was published in two volumes in 1788 by J. and A. McLean. The series' correct title is The Federalist; the title The Federalist Papers did not emerge until the twentieth century.

Founding Documents of American Democracy, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Mayflower Compact 1620, Fundamental Orders of 1639, Colonial Records of Virginia, Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, Declaration of Independence 1776, Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776, Paris Peach Treaty 1783, Annapolis Convention 1786, Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance 1787, The Constitution 1787, The Bill of Rights, Amendments to the Constitution, Washington's Farewell Address 1796, The Monroe Doctrine 1823, The Emancipation Proclamation 1862, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 1863.

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Obama, $2.99   Add to Cart

Collection of speeches by U.S. presidents.  According to Wikipedia: "The inauguration of the President of the United States takes place during the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States, which is every four years... "

Franklin's Autobiography plus 3 Biographies of Him, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin by John T. Morse, Benjamin Franklin by Paul Elmer More, and From Boyhood to Manhood: the Life of Benjamin Franklin by William M. Thayer.  According to Wikipedia: "Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He formed both the first public lending library in America and the first fire department in Pennsylvania. Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical and democratic values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment."

Works of Thomas Jefferson, Including His Presidential Papers, Correspondence, and Autobiography, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes Jefferson's presidential papers from "A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents" edited by James Richardson and all four volumes of "Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson" edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). An influential Founding Father, Jefferson envisioned America as a great "Empire of Liberty" that would promote republicanism. Jefferson served as the wartime Governor of Virginia (1779–1781), barely escaping capture by the British in 1781. Many people disliked his tenure, and he did not win office again in Virginia. From mid-1784 through late 1789 Jefferson lived outside the United States. He served in Paris initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties. In May 1785 he succeeded Benjamin Franklin as the U.S. Minister to France. He was the first United States Secretary of State (1789–1793) under George Washington and advised him against a national bank and the Jay Treaty. He was the second Vice President (1797–1801) under John Adams. Winning on an anti-federalist platform, Jefferson took the oath of office and became President of the United States in 1801. As president he negotiated the Louisiana Purchase (1803), and sent the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) to explore the vast new territory and lands further west. Jefferson sponsored embargo laws that escalated tensions with Britain and France, leading to war with Britain in 1812 shortly after he left office. He idealized the independent yeoman farmer as exemplar of republican virtues, distrusted cities and financiers, and favored states' rights and a limited federal government. Jefferson supported the separation of church and state and was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1779, 1786). Jefferson's revolutionary view on individual religious freedom and protection from government authority have generated much interest with modern scholars. He was the eponym of Jeffersonian democracy and the co-founder and leader of the Democratic-Republican Party, which dominated American politics for 25 years."

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, $1.99   Add to Cart

This edition retains the original idiosyncratic spelling and punctuation. " "These Journals are from May 14, 1804, the day the expedition left the Mississippi River, to September 26, 1806, a day or two after they arrived back in St. Louis. It includes all possible Journal entries of Lewis and Clark. Most of the "courses and distances" and "celestial observations" have been omitted. The notes and most of the corrections of past editors have been removed."  According to Wikipedia: "The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first American overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back."

The Life of George Washington by John Marshall, all five volumes $2.99  Add to Cart

The classic biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (1732 – 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution and in the formation of the United States, he is often revered by Americans as the "Father of Our Country""

Alfred Thayer Mahan: 11 books on history and naval warfare, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Admiral Farragut, From Sail to Steam, The gulf and Inland Waters, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, The Interest of America in Sea Power, Lessons of the War With Spain and Other Articles, The Life of Nelson, The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence, Sea Power in Its Relations to the War of 1812, Story of the War in South Africa, and Types of Naval Officers. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 – December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importance of sea power influenced navies around the world, and helped prompt naval buildups before World War I. Several ships were named USS Mahan, including the lead vessel of a class of destroyers. His research into naval history led to his most important work, The Influence of Seapower Upon History, 1660-1783, published in 1890."

Complete Writings of Thomas Paine, 2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Volume 1 The American Crisis, Volume 2 The Rights of Man, Volume 3 1791-1804, and Volume IV The Age of Reason. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas "Tom" Paine (February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809) was an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination."

Francis Parkman: 8 History Classics, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV, The Discovery of the Great West, Half-Century of Conflict, The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century, Montcalm and Wolfe, The Oregon Trail, Pioneers of France in the New World, and The Conspiracy of Pontiac. According to Wikipedia: "Francis Parkman (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893) was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America. These works are still valued as history and especially as literature, although the biases of his work have met with criticism."

The Winning of the West, by Theodore Roosevelt, all four volumes, $2.99  Add to Cart

Volume 1 -  from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1769-1776; Volume 2 - from he Alleghanies to the Mississippi 1777-1783; Volume 3 - The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784-1790; Volume 4 - Louisiana and the Northwest 1791-1807. According to Wikipedia: "Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919), also known as T.R., and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States. A leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Party, he was a Governor of New York and a professional historian, naturalist, explorer, hunter, author, and soldier. He is most famous for his personality: his energy, his vast range of interests and achievements, his model of masculinity, and his "cowboy" image. Originating from a story from one of Roosevelt's hunting expeditions, teddy bears are named after him."

Frederick Jackson Turner: 3 American History Classics, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Character and Infuence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin, The Frontier in American History, and The Rise of the New West.  According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Jackson Turner (November 14, 1861 – March 14, 1932) was an American historian in the early 20th century. He is best known for his essay "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", whose ideas are referred to as the Frontier Thesis. He is also known for his theories of geographical sectionalism. In recent years western history has seen pitched arguments over his Frontier Thesis, with the only point of agreement being his enormous impact on historical scholarship and the American mind."


CIVIL WAR

Andersonville: a Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy, all four volumes, $2.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "John McElroy (1846–1929) was an American printer, soldier, journalist and author, most known for writing the novel The Red Acorn and the four-volume Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, based upon his lengthy confinement in the Confederate Andersonville prison camp during the American Civil War...  In January 1864, he was among dozens of men captured in a skirmish near Jonesville, Virginia, by Confederate cavalrymen under William E. Jones. McElroy sent to a variety of camps before being assigned to Andersonville prison, where he remained for the rest of the war. After the war ended, McElroy was released from captivity and transported back to the North. He settled in Chicago and resumed the printer's trade. He became a local reporter and newspaperman before moving to Toledo, Ohio, to become an editor of the Toledo Blade. He married Elsie Pomeroy of Ottawa, Ohio, and raised a family. In 1879, he wrote Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons, a non-fiction work based on his experiences during his fifteen-month incarceration. It quickly became a bestseller and remained popular for the next twenty years."

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, both volumes, $2.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27, 1822 ? July 23, 1885), was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869?1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. Grant first reached national prominence by taking Forts Henry and Donelson in 1862 in the first Union victories of the war. The following year, his brilliant campaign ending in the surrender of Vicksburg secured Union control of the Mississippi and with the simultaneous Union victory at Gettysburg turned the tide of the war in the North's favor. Named commanding general of the Federal armies in 1864, he implemented a coordinated strategy of simultaneous attacks aimed at destroying the South's ability to carry on the war. In 1865, after conducting a costly war of attrition in the East, he accepted the surrender of his Confederate opponent Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House."

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, all 7 volumes, $2.99  Add to Cart

The complete writings - thousands of items, with links to all of them. According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination. As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865."

Lincoln's Yarns and Stories edited by Alexander McClure, $1.99 Add to Cart

"A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that Made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America's Greatest Story Teller." With links from the table of contents to every item. According to Wikipedia: "Alexander Kelly McClure (January 9, 1828 – June 6, 1909) was a journalist, editor, writer, politician, and historian, active in Pennsylvania Republican Party politics, especially in the 1860s, and a prominent supporter, correspondent, and biographer of President Abraham Lincoln. He was the editor of the Franklin Repository, in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania and of The Philadelphia Times. The town of McClure, Pennsylvania - located in Snyder County - is named in his honor."

Abraham Lincoln by John T. Morse, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Abraham Lincoln is a 2-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln written by John Torrey Morse (1840-1937). Originally published in 1893, the New York times found it to be "for its scope, admirable. It will even stand up and appear respectable in the most distinguished company of Lincoln biographies that might be assembled." The author is "a sane biographer, who brings to the task of writing about Lincoln a mind that aspires to see clear and think straight, instead of one held slavishly subject to a heart's desire to make Lincoln out a hero without fault or blemish." The Atlantic Monthly noted that Morse had "attempted a bit of scientific painting and not a portraiture to the life. The book is a criticism, consequently, rather than an appreciation." They also noted that Morse concentrates mostly on the five years that Lincoln was in office... In 1987, Gabor Boritt noted that Morse was the first biographer to have "fully exemplified as well as diagnosed the above ailment [the schism between the self-serving, not very admirable politician that Lincoln was up until 1860 versus the later "unparalleled greatness"]." Morse has written of "the insoluble problem of two men - two lives - one following the other with no visible link... we have physically one creature, morally and mentally two beings."

Early Life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1842) by Ida Tarbell, $1.99  Add to Cart

From McClure's Magazine, 1895-1896. According to Wikipedia: "Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 – January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era. She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by New York University of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. She became the first woman to take on Standard Oil. Her direct forerunner was Henry Demarest Lloyd. She began her work on The Standard after her editors at McClure's Magazine called for a story on one of the trusts... Her 20-part series on Abraham Lincoln doubled the magazine's circulation, and was published in a book, giving her a national reputation as a major writer and the leading authority on the slain president. Her research in the backwoods of Kentucky and Illinois uncovered the true story of Lincoln's childhood and youth. She vividly chronicled his rise to the presidency."

Abraham Lincoln by Lord Charnwood, $1.99

Classic biography of Lincoln, first published in 1917. According to Wikipedia: "Godfrey Rathbone Benson, 1st Baron Charnwood (6 November 1864 – 3 February 1945) was a British author, academic, Liberal politician and philanthropist... Lord Charnwood was the author of many works. These include Abraham Lincoln, which he published in 1916 as an accurate biography, and Theodore Roosevelt in 1923, another historical biography. He was also involved in charitable work with the deaf and disabled, becoming the first President of the National Institute for the Deaf from 1924 until 1935."

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The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend, $1.99  Add to Cart

Account of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, first published in 1865.  According to Wikipedia: "George Alfred Townsend (January 30, 1841 – April 15, 1914), was a noted war correspondent during the American Civil War, and a later novelist. Townsend wrote under the pen name "Gath", which was derived by adding an "H" to his initials, and inspired by the biblical passage II Samuel 1:20, "Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askalon"... He is considered to have been the youngest correspondent of the war. In 1865, Townsend was Washington correspondent for the New York World, covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and its aftermath. His daily reports filed between April 17 – May 17 were published later in 1865 as a book, The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth."

Our American Cousin, three-act play by Tom Taylor, $1.99  Add to Cart

Abraham Lincoln was watching this play when he was assassinated -- Act III, halfway through Scene 2.  According to Wikipedia: "Our American Cousin is an 1858 play in three acts by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play is a farce whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish, but honest American, Asa Trenchard, to his aristocratic English relatives when he goes to England to claim the family estate. It premiered at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York City on October 15, 1858, and the title character was first played by Joseph Jefferson. Although the play achieved great renown during its first few years, and remained very popular throughout the second half of the 19th century, it is now best known as the play U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was attending in Ford's Theatre when he was assassinated by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865.

Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman, both volumes, $2.99  Add to Cart

Memoirs of the Union general from the Civil War, responsible for the march through Georgia and known for having said, "War is hell". According to Wikipedia: "William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author. He served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861?65), for which he received recognition for his outstanding command of military strategy and criticism for the harshness of the "scorched earth" policies that he implemented in conducting total war against the Confederate States. Military historian Basil Liddell Hart famously declared that Sherman was "the first modern general"

Memories: a Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers, $1.99   Add to Cart

First-hand account of the Civil War from the perspective of a Confederate woman. According to the Preface: For several years my friends among Confederate soldiers have been urging me to "write up" and publish what I know of the war. By personal solicitation and by letter this subject has been brought before me and placed in the light of a duty which I owe to posterity. Taking this view of it, I willingly comply, glad that I am permitted to stand among the many "witnesses" who shall establish "the truth," proud to write myself as one who faithfully served the defenders of the Cause which had and has my heart's devotion."

Captains of the Civil War, A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray by William Wood, $1.99   Add to Cart

First published in 1921. The author, a Canadian was "Late Colonel commanding 8th Royal Rifles, and Officer-in-charge, Canadian Special Mission Overseas." The Preface begins: "Sixty years ago today the guns that thundered round Fort Sumter began the third and greatest modern civil war fought by English-speaking people. This war was quite as full of politics as were the other two-the War of the American Revolution and that of Puritan and Cavalier. But, though the present Chronicle never ignores the vital correlations between statesmen and commanders, it is a book of warriors, through and through."

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by Colonel G. F. R. Henderson, both volumes, $1.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 -  May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, and probably the most revered Confederate commander after General Robert E. Lee.[2] His military career includes such famous exploits as the audacious Valley Campaign of 1862 and as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. Confederate pickets accidentally shot him at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 2, 1863, which the general survived, albeit with the loss of an arm to amputation. However, he died of complications of pneumonia eight days later."

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Linda Bent, $1.99   Add to Cart

Autobiography of a slave girl, first published in 1861.  According to Wikipedia: "Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an American writer, who escaped from slavery and became an abolitionist speaker and reformer. Jacobs' single work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, was one of the first autobiographical narratives about the struggle for freedom by female slaves and an account of the sexual harassment and abuse they endured."

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble, $1.99   Add to Cart

Autobiographical journal, with first-hand account of slavery in Georgia, first published in 1863. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 - 15 January 1893), was a famous British actress and author in the early and mid nineteenth century… In 1834, she retired from the stage to marry an American, Pierce Butler, grandson of the Founding Father Pierce Butler, and heir to a large fortune founded on cotton, tobacco and rice... Butler squandered a fortune estimated at $700,000, but was saved from bankruptcy by the March 2–3, 1859 sale of his 436 slaves at Ten Broeck racetrack, outside Savannah, Georgia—the largest single slave auction in American history. Following the American Civil War, he tried to make his plantations profitable with free labor, but was unsuccessful. Butler died in Georgia, of malaria, in 1867. Neither he nor Fanny ever remarried... In 1877, Fanny returned to England, where she lived using her maiden name till her death. During this period, Fanny Kemble was a prominent and popular figure in the social life of London. She became a great friend of and inspiration for Henry James during her later years. His novel Washington Square (1880) was based upon a story Fanny had told him concerning one of her relatives... Her various volumes of reminiscences contain much valuable material illuminating the social and dramatic history of the period. Her elder daughter Sarah married a doctor, Owen Jones Wister, and they had one child, Owen Wister (b. 1860), the popular American novelist and author of the 1902 western novel, The Virginian."

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, $1.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818  – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history. In 1872, Douglass became the very first African-American nominated as a Vice Presidential candidate in the U.S., running on the Equal Rights Party ticket with Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, 'I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.'"

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis, $1.99   Add to Cart

The President of the Confederate States of America presents his side of the story.  The Preface begins: "The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declaration of Independence."

History of Woman Suffrage, all six volumes, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes all six volumes, told by the heroines who fought for the women's vote.  . According to the Preface, this book is "Woven with the threads of this (Woman's suffrage) history, we have given some personal reminiscences and brief biographical sketches." According to Wikipedia, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States. Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She traveled the United States, and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (Cicero, New York, March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898 in Chicago) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author, who was "born with a hatred of oppression. Ida Husted Harper (February 18, 1851 – March 14, 1931) was a prominent figure in the United States women's suffrage movement. She was an American author and journalist who wrote primarily to document the movement and show support of its ideals."



AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY

Audubon and His Journals, both volumes by Maria R. Audubon, illustrated, $3.99  Add to Cart

First published in 1897.  This edition includes the illustrations that appeared in the original (all of which are black and white).  According to Wikipedia: "John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of America (1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species and a number of new sub-species."

Nature Classics by John Muir: 7 books and 2 articles, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Grand Canon of the Colorado (article), The Mountains of California, Steep Trails, Stickeen (article), The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, Travels in Alaska, Yosemite, My First Summer in the Sierras, and Alaska Days with John Muir (by S. Hall Young). According to Wikipedia: "John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) was a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of conservation of U.S. wilderness. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, have been read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. His writings and philosophy strongly influenced the formation of the modern environmental movement."

Henry David Thoreau: 5 books and 4 essays, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: A Week on the Concord and the Merrimack Rivers, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Walden, Canoeing in the Wilderness, A Plea for Captain John Brown, Walking, Wild Apples, and Excursions, and Cape Cod. According to Wikipedia: "Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862) was an American author, naturalist, transcendentalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, stage writer and philosopher. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 volumes. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism..."


AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SOCIOLOGY

  Studies in the Psychology of Sex, all 6 volumes, by Havelock Ellis, $3.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 – 8 July 1939), was a British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics.

  Havelock Ellis: 4 books on psychology and sex, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Task of Social Hygiene, Essays in War-Time: Further Studies in the Task of Social Hygiene, Impressions and Comments, and Little Essays of Love and Virtue. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 - 8 July 1939) was a British sexologist, physician, and social reformer. In April 1875, Ellis left London on his father's ship for Australia, and soon after his arrival in Sydney, he obtained a position as a master at a private school. It was discovered that he had had no training for this position, and so he became a tutor for a family living a few miles from Carcoar. He spent a year there, doing a lot of reading, and then obtained a position as a master at a grammar school in Grafton. The headmaster had died and Ellis carried on the school for that year, but was too young and inexperienced to do so successfully. At the end of the year, he returned to Sydney and, after three months' training, was given charge of two government part-time elementary schools, one at Sparkes Creek and the other at Junction Creek. He lived at the school house on Sparkes Creek for a year, which turned out to be the most eventful year of his life up to that point, as he called it afterwards. In his own words, "In Australia, I gained health of body, I attained peace of soul, my life task was revealed to me, I was able to decide on a professional vocation, I became an artist in literature . . . these five points covered the whole activity of my life in the world. Some of them I should doubtless have reached without the aid of the Australian environment, scarcely all, and most of them I could never have achieved so completely if chance had not cast me into the solitude of the Liverpool Range." Ellis returned to England in April 1879. He had decided to take up the study of sex, and felt his first step must be to qualify as a medical man. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, but never had a regular medical practice."

William James: 8 Books of Philosophy, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Will to Believe, Talks to Teachers on Psychology, Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, Pluralistic Universe, The Meaning of Truth, Memories and Studies, and Essays in Radical Empiricism.  According to Wikipedia: "William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the U.S. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James."

Thorstein Veblen: 3 Books of Sociology and Economics, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Theory of the Leisure Class, An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace, and The Pleace of Science in Modern Civilisation and Other Essays.  According to Wikipedia: "Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist, and a leader of the institutional economics movement. Besides his technical work he was a popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). Veblen is famous in the history of economic thought for combining a Darwinian evolutionary perspective with his new institutionalist approach to economic analysis. He combined sociology with economics in his masterpiece The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) where he argued that there was a basic distinction between the productiveness of "industry", run by engineers manufacturing goods, vis-a-vis the parasitism of "business" that exists only to make profits for a leisure class. The chief activity of the leisure class was "conspicuous consumption", and their economic contribution is "waste," activity that contributes nothing to productivity." 



AMERICAN POETRY

Emily Dickinson's Poetical Works (the original edition), $1.99  Add to Cart

All three series. This edition is based on on the first published collection, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson, which was released in three "series", the first of which appeared in 1890. According to Wikipedia, Mabel Loomis Todd "became friends with the Dickinsons, and though she never met Emily Dickinson in person, the two women exchanged letters. After Emily's death in 1886, hundreds of her unpublished poems were discovered. In 1888, Emily's sister Lavinia asked Todd to copy and organize the poems, which were to be sent to the publisher Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The first volume of Poems by Emily Dickinson was published in 1890. This version included many alterations by Todd. In 1896, Todd and the Dickinson family had a falling-out over a legal battle regarding property owned by Austin Dickinson. As a result, Emily Dickinson's manuscripts were split between the two families. In 1945, Todd's daughter Millicent published some of the poems from Todd's portion of the manuscripts."

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman with links to every poem, $1.99  Add to Cart

Whitman's masterpiece. According to Wikipedia: "Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist. He was a part of the transition between Transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse."



BLACK AMERICANS
Black American Classics: 11 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. DuBois, "The Conjure Woman" by Charles Chesnutt, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man" by James Weldon Johnson, "Clotel or The President's Daughter" by William Wells Brown, "The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar", "De Turkey and De Law" by Zora Hurston, "A Century of Negro Migration" by Carter Woodson, "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson, and "The Underground Rail Road" by Will Still.

SLAVE NARRATIVES: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, all 17 volumes, $8.99  Add to Cart

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. All 17 volumes, with links to every interview. Former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. hern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the following seventeen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, $1.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818  – February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history. In 1872, Douglass became the very first African-American nominated as a Vice Presidential candidate in the U.S., running on the Equal Rights Party ticket with Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, 'I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.'"

NATIVE AMERICANS

Native American Nonfiction and Legends: five books by Charles Eastman, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Indian Boyhood, Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains, The Indian Today, Old Indian Days, and The Sould of hte Indian.  According to Wikipedia, "Charles Alexander Eastman (February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American writer, physician, and reformer. He was of Santee Sioux and Anglo-American ancestry. Active in politics and issues on American Indian rights, he also helped found the Boy Scouts of America....He was named Hakadah at his birth on a reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota. In Dakota, Hakadah means the "pitiful last", as his mother Mary died at his birth. He was later named Ohíye S’a (Dakota for "wins often") after winning a rough game of lacrosse....In 1933, Eastman was the first to receive the Indian Achievement Award."

E. Pauline Johnson, 4 books, $1.99  Add to Cart

Classic fiction and poetry. This file includes: Flint and Feather, Legends of Vancouver, The Moccasin Maker, and The Shagganappi.  According to Wikipedia: "Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwak, literally: 'double-life') (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage; her father was a Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry, and her mother an English immigrant. One such poem is the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings". Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature."

Arabic Literature

The Arabian Nights: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, translated by Richard Burton, complete; all 16 volumes, $2.99   Add to Cart

The full text of all 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information. This file also includes "The Life of Sir Richard Burton by Thomas Wright.  According to Wikipedia: "One Thousand and One Nights  is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars across the Middle East, North Africa and Indian subcontinent. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient and medieval Arabic, Persian, Indian, Egyptian and Mesopotamian literature. In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era as well as the Sassanid-era Pahlavi work Hazār Afsān.  Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the 14th century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to around the 9th century." Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 – 1890) was an English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages. Burton's best-known achievements include traveling in disguise to Mecca, making an unexpurgated translation of The Book of One Thousand Nights and A Night..."

Australian

Australian Poetry: Paterson, Lawson, and Dennis, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses, Saltbush Bill, J. P. and Other Verses, Rio rade's Last Race and other Verses all by Banjo Paterson, The Old Bush Songs edited by Banjo Paterson, In the Cays When the World Was Wide and Other Verses by Henry Lawson, and The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, Digger Smith, and The Glugs of Gosh by C. J. Dennis.

By Reef and Palm by Louis Becke, $1.99  Add to Cart

This collection of stories includes: CHALLIS THE DOUBTER, "'TIS IN THE BLOOD", THE REVENGE OF MACY O'SHEA, THE RANGERS OF TIA KAU, PALLOU'S TALOI, A BASKET OF BREAD-FRUIT, ENDERBY'S COURTSHIP, LONG CHARLEY'S GOOD LITTLE WIFE, THE METHODICAL MR BURR OF MAJURU, A TRULY GREAT MAN, THE DOCTOR'S WIFE, THE FATE OF THE ALIDA, THE CHILIAN BLUEJACKET, and BRANTLEY OF VAHITAHI.

The Ebbing Tide by Louis Becke, $1.99  Add to Cart

This collection of stories includes: "LULIBAN OF THE POOL", NINIA, BALDWIN'S LOISE--Miss Lambert, LOISE, THE HALF-BLOOD, AT A KAFA-DRINKING, MRS. LIARDET: A SOUTH SEA TRADING EPISODE, KENNEDY THE BOATSTEERER, A DEAD LOSS, HICKSON: A HALF-CASTE, A BOATING PARTY OF TWO, "THE BEST ASSET IN A FOOL'S ESTATE",  DESCHARD OF ONEAKA, NELL OF MULLINER'S CAMP, AURIKI REEF, AT THE EBBING OF THE TIDE, THE FALLACIES OF HILLIARD, A TALE OF A MASK, THE COOK OF THE "SPREETOO SANTOO"--A STUDY IN BEACHCOMBERS, LUPTON'S GUEST: A MEMORY OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC, IN NOUMEA, THE FEAST AT PENTECOST, and AN HONOUR TO THE SERVICE.

The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, Illustrated, by Louis Becke, $1.99  Add to Cart


British Literature and History

Grant Allen, 19 books $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: An African Millionaire, The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories, Biographies of Working Men, The British Barbarians, Charles Darwin, Early Britain, Falling In Love, The Great Taboo, Hilda Wade, Michael's Crag, Miss Cayley's Adventures, Philistia, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Recalled to Life, Science in Arcady, Strange Stories, What's Bred in the Bone, The White Man's Foot, and The Woman Did It.  According to Wikipedia: "Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution."

Jane Austen's Novels, all eight of them, plus two books about her, $2.99   Add to Cart

This collection includes all of Jane Austen's novels: Love and Friendship, Lady Susan, Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. Active (hyperlinked) table of contents makes it easy to navigate through this huge file. This file to also includes three books about Jane Austen: A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh (1798-1874), her nephew;  and A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen by Miss Thackeray (Mrs. Richmond Ritchie). According to Wikipedia: "Jane Austen (1775 – 1817) was an English novelist whose realism, biting social commentary and masterful use of free indirect speech, burlesque and irony have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature."

A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "A Memoir of Jane Austen is a biography of the novelist Jane Austen (1775–1817) published in 1869 by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh. A second edition was published in 1871 which included previously unpublished Jane Austen writings. A family project, the biography was written by James Edward Austen-Leigh but owed much to the recollections of Jane Austen's many relatives. However, it was the decisions of her close friend and sister, Cassandra Austen, to destroy many of Jane's letters after her death that shaped the material available for the biography. Austen-Leigh described his "dear Aunt Jane" domestically, as someone who was uninterested in fame and who only wrote in her spare time. However, the manuscripts appended to the second edition suggest that Jane Austen was intensely interested in revising her manuscripts and was perhaps less content than Austen-Leigh described her. The Memoir does not attempt to unreservedly tell the story of Jane Austen's life. Following the Victorian conventions of biography, it kept much private information from the public, but family members disagreed over just how much should be revealed, for example, regarding Austen's romantic relationships.The Memoir introduced the public to the works of Jane Austen, generating interest in novels which only the literary elite had read up until that point. It remained the primary biographical work on the author for over half a century."

   A Book of Sibyls by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (AKA Miss Thackeray), $1.99  Add to Cart

Biographical sketches of Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, and Jane Austen, first published in 1883.  According to Wikipedia: " Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, née Thackeray (9 June 1837 – 26 February 1919) was an English writer. She was the eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray.


  Love and Friendship and Other Early Works, including Lesley Castle, The History of England, Collection of Letters, and Scraps by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790. From the age of eleven until she was eighteen, Jane Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks. The notebooks still exist – one in the Bodleian Library; the other two in the British Museum. They include among others Love and Freindship, written when Jane was fourteen, and The History of England, when she was fifteen. Written in epistolary form, like her later unpublished novella, Lady Susan, Love and Freindship is thought to be one of the tales she wrote for the amusement of her family; it was dedicated to her cousin Eliza de Feuillide, "La Comtesse de Feuillide". The installments, written as letters from the heroine Laura, to Marianne, the daughter of her friend Isabel, may have come about as nightly readings by the young Jane in the Austen home. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear even from the subtitle, "Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love", which completely undercuts the title. In form, it resembles a fairy tale as much as anything else, featuring wild coincidences and turns of fortune, but Austen is determined to lampoon the conventions of romantic stories, right down to the utter failure of romantic fainting spells, which always turn out badly for the female characters. In this story one can see the development of Austen's sharp wit and disdain for romantic sensibility, so characteristic of her later novels."

   Lady Susan by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. This epistolary novel, an early complete work that the author never submitted for publication, describes the schemes of the main character—the widowed Lady Susan—as she seeks a new husband for herself, and one for her daughter. Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work (Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap the best possible husband while maintaining a relationship with a married man. She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is (in contrast with Sense and Sensibility and Emma, which feature marriages of men who are sixteen years older than their wives). Although the ending includes a traditional reward for morality, Lady Susan herself is treated much more mildly than the adulteress in Mansfield Park, who is severely punished."

   Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written approximately during 1798–99. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co., who decided against publishing. In 1817, the bookseller was content to sell it back to the novelist's brother, Henry Austen, for the exact sum — £10 — that he had paid for it at the beginning, not knowing that the writer was by then the author of four popular novels. The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817 (1818 given on the title-page), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion."

   Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, and was her first published work when it appeared in 1811 under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home, a meagre cottage on a distant relative's property, where they experience love, romance and heartbreak. The philosophical resolution of the novel is ambiguous: the reader must decide whether sense and sensibility have truly merged."

   Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London. Though the story is set at the turn of the 19th century, it retains a fascination for modern readers, continuing near the top of lists of "most loved books" such as The Big Read. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. Modern interest in the book has resulted in a number of dramatic adaptations and an abundance of novels and stories imitating Austen's memorable characters or themes. To date, the book has sold some 20 million copies worldwide."

   Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice... Mansfield Park is the most controversial of Austen's major novels. Regency critics praised the novel's wholesome morality, but many modern readers find Fanny's timidity and disapproval of the theatricals difficult to sympathise with and reject the idea (made explicit in the final chapter) that she is a better person for the relative privations of her childhood. Jane Austen's own mother thought Fanny "insipid", and many other readers have found her priggish and unlikeable. Other critics point out that she is a complex personality, perceptive yet given to wishful thinking, and that she shows courage and grows in self-esteem during the latter part of the story. Austen biographer Claire Tomalin, who is generally rather critical of Fanny, argues that "it is in rejecting obedience in favour of the higher dictate of remaining true to her own conscience that Fanny rises to her moment of heroism." But Tomalin reflects the ambivalence that many readers feel towards Fanny when she also writes: "More is made of Fanny Price's faith, which gives her the courage to resist what she thinks is wrong; it also makes her intolerant of sinners, whom she is ready to cast aside." The story contains much social satire, targeted particularly at the two aunts."

   Emma by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively comedy of manners among her characters.
Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the very first sentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich." Emma, however, is also rather spoiled, headstrong, and self-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmaking abilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in other people's lives, and her imagination and perceptions often lead her astray."

   Persuasion by Jane Austen, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma, completing it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December that year (but dated 1818).
Persuasion is linked to Northanger Abbey not only by the fact that the two books were originally bound up in one volume and published together, but also because both stories are set partly in Bath, a fashionable city with which Jane Austen was well acquainted, having lived there from 1801 to 1805. Besides the theme of persuasion, the novel evokes other topics, such as the Royal Navy, in which two of Jane Austen's brothers ultimately rose to the rank of admiral. As in Northanger Abbey, the superficial social life of Bath—well known to Jane Austen, who spent several relatively unhappy and unproductive years there—is portrayed extensively and serves as a setting for the second half of the book. In many respects Persuasion marks a break with Austen's previous works, both in the more biting, even irritable satire directed at some of the novel's characters and in the regretful, resigned outlook of its otherwise admirable heroine, Anne Elliot, in the first part of the story. Against this is set the energy and appeal of the Royal Navy, which symbolizes for Anne and the reader the possibility of a more outgoing, engaged, and fulfilling life, and it is this worldview which triumphs for the most part at the end of the novel."

Robert Barr, 16 books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Face and the Mask, From Whose Bourne, The Heralds of Fame, In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories, In the Midst of Alarms, Jennie Baxter Journalist, Lord Batranleigh Abroad, One Day's Courtship, The O'Rudy, A Prince of Good Fellows,  Revenge! A Rock in the Baltic, The Strong Arm, The Sword Maker, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, and A Woman Intervenes. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Barr (September 16, 1849 – October 21, 1912) was a British-Canadian novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to Upper Canada at age four and was educated in Toronto at Toronto Normal School. Barr was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 founded The Idler magazine, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name")."

A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship's Boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies, (short), Illustrated, by Lieutenant William Bligh, $1.99  Add to Cart

A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the west indies, in his majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh. Including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat, from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies, Illustrated, by Lieutenant William Bligh, $1.99  Add to Cart

Boswell's Life of Johnson, $1.99   Add to Cart

The edition of 1886, edited by George Brikbek Hill. This file also includes Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey into North Wales. According to Wikipedia: "James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740 - 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland; he is best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson. He was the eldest son of a judge, Alexander Boswell, 8th Laird of Auchinleck and his wife Euphemia Erskine, Lady Auchinleck; he inherited his father’s estate Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Boswell's mother was a strict Calvinist, and he felt that his father was cold to him. His name has passed into the English language as a term (Boswell, Boswellian, Boswellism) for a constant companion and observer. Boswell is also known for the detailed and frank journals that he wrote for long periods of his life, which remained undiscovered until the 1920s. These included voluminous notes on the grand tour of Europe that he took as a young nobleman and, subsequently, of his tour of Scotland with Johnson. His journals also record meetings and conversations with eminent individuals belonging to The Club, including Lord Monboddo, David Garrick, Edmund Burke, Joshua Reynolds and Oliver Goldsmith. His written works focus chiefly on others, but he was admitted as a good companion and accomplished conversationalist in his own right."

The Bronte Family, All 7 novels, the poetry, and 2 biographies, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Cottage Poems by Patrick Bronte (father of the Bronte sisters), 1811; Poems by Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, 1846; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, 1847; Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847; Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, 1847; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, 1848; Shirley by Charlotte Bronte, 1849; Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850; Villette by Charlotte Bronte, 1853; The Professor by Charlotte Bronte, 1857; The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1857; and Charlotte
Bronte and Her Circle by Clement K. Shorter, 1896. 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, $1.99   Add to Cart

The classic romantic novel. According to Wikipedia: "Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York. Writing for the Penguin edition, Stevie Davies describes it as an "influential feminist text" because of its in-depth exploration of a strong female character's feelings. Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of eponymous Jane Eyre, her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of Thornfield Hall. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism."

John Buchan: Ten Books, $3.99   Add to Cart

Classic British Works: 10 Books by John Buchan includes The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction, Greenmantle, The Half-Hearted, Huntingtower, The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies, Mr Standfast, The Path Of The King, Prester John, Salute To Adventurers, and The Thirty-Nine Steps. According to Wikipedia, "John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan's 100 works include nearly thirty novels, seven collections of short stories and biographies of Sir Walter Scott, Caesar Augustus, and Oliver Cromwell. Buchan's most famous of his books were the spy thrillers (including) The 39 Steps (which was converted to a play as well as an Alfred Hitchcock movie starring Robert Donat as Richard Hannay, though with Buchan's story much altered.) The "last Buchan" (as Graham Greene entitled his appreciative review) was the 1941 novel Sick Heart River (American title: Mountain Meadow), in which a dying protagonist confronts in the Canadian wilderness the questions of the meaning of life. The insightful quotation "It's a great life, if you don't weaken" is famously attributed to Buchan, as is "No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated."

The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It first appeared as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine in August and September 1915 before being published in book form in October that year by William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.  It is the first of five novels featuring Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff upper lip and a miraculous knack for getting himself out of sticky situations.The novel formed the basis for a number of film adaptations, notably: Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 version; a 1959 colour remake; a 1978 version which is perhaps most faithful to the novel; and a 2008 version for British television." 


The Works of Edmund Burke, all 12 volumes, $2.99  Add to Cart

Edition first published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution... Burke also published philosophical works on aesthetics and founded the Annual Register, a political review. He is often regarded by conservatives as the Father of Anglo-American conservatism."

  Fanny Burney: Four Novels plus Diary and Letters, $3.99   Add to Cart

Four novels by Fanny Burney, plus her Diary and Letters, with links to every chapter and letter. This file includes Evelina (1778), Cecilia (1782), Camilla (1796), The Wanderer (1814), plus The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. According to Wikipedia: "Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and, after her marriage, as Madame d’Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King’s Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr Charles Burney (1726–1814) and Mrs Esther Sleepe Burney (1725–62). The third of six children, she was self-educated and began writing what she called her “scribblings” at the age of ten. In 1793, aged forty-two, she married a French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. Their only son, Alexander, was born in 1794. After a lengthy writing career, and travels that took her to France for more than ten years, she settled in Bath, England, where she died on 6 January 1840."

    Evelina by Fanny Burney, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778. It was first published anonymously, but its authorship was revealed by the poet George Huddesford in what Burney called a "vile poem. . In this 3-volume epistolary novel, title character Evelina is the unacknowledged but legitimate daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat, thus raised in rural seclusion until her 17th year. Through a series of humorous events that take place in London and the resort town of Hotwells, near Bristol, Evelina learns to navigate the complex layers of 18th-century society and earn the love of a distinguished nobleman. This sentimental novel, which has notions of sensibility and early romanticism, satirizes the society in which it is set and is a significant precursor to the work of Jane Austen and Maria Edgeworth, whose novels explore many of the same issues."

   Cecilia by Fanny Burney, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Cecilia, subtitled Memoirs of an Heiress, is a novel by Frances Burney, set in 1779 and published in 1782... Frances Burney had begun working on the novel in 1780, after her father, Dr. Charles Burney, and her literary mentor, Samuel Crisp, suppressed her first attempt at writing for the stage, The Witlings. Her disappointment in this venture, as well as the pressure she felt to produce a novel in order to capitalize on the success of her first work Evelina, seems to have placed considerable strain on Burney, and may have colored the tone and content of her second published work."

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According to Wikipedia: "Camilla, subtitled A Picture of Youth, is a novel by Frances Burney, first published in 1796. Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people: Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the sweet tempered Lavinia and the deformed, but extremely kind, Eugenia, and their cousin, the beautiful Indiana Lynmere - and in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. They have many hardships, however, caused by misunderstandings and mistakes, in the path of true love. An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Burney weaves into her novel shafts of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates many social, emotional, and mental dilemmas that illuminate the gap between generations."

   The Wanderer by Fanny Burney, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties is Frances Burney’s last novel. Published in March 1814 by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, this historical novel with Gothic overtones set during the 1790s tells the story of a mysterious woman who attempts to support herself while hiding her identity. The novel focuses on the difficulties faced by women as they strive for economic and social independence. Begun in the 1790s, the novel took Burney fourteen years to complete. She worked on it sporadically while she wrote plays and was an exile in France. Although the first edition sold out on the strength of Burney's reputation, the scathing reviews of the novel caused it to sell poorly. Reviewers disliked its portrayal of women and its criticism of English society."

   The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (Fanny Burney), $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The first entry in her journal was made on 27 March 1768, addressed to "Miss Nobody," and it extended over seventy-two years. A talented storyteller with a strong sense of character, Burney often wrote these “journal-diaries” as a form of correspondence with family and friends, recounting to them events from her life and her observations upon them. Her diary contains the record of her extensive reading out of her father’s library, as well the visits and behaviour of the various important artists who paid visits to their home. Frances and her sister Susanna were particularly close, and it was to this sister that Frances would correspond throughout her adult life, in the form of these journal-letters."

Byron's Complete Poetry, all seven volumes, $3.99  Add to Cart

All seven volumes of poetry.  According to Wikipedia: "George Gordon Byron, later Noel, 6th Baron Byron FRS (1788 – 1824) was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems When We Two Parted, She Walks in Beauty, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. Byron's fame rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured extravagant living, numerous love affairs, debts, separation, and marital exploits."

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, $1.99   Add to Cart

Volume 4 of The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer edited by Reverend Walter W. Skeat. This book includes the complete Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English with extensive notes, published by Oxford University in 1900. According to Wikipedia: "Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 1400?) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. Sometimes called the father of English literature, Chaucer is credited by some scholars as the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language, rather than French or Latin."

G.K. Chesterton: 29 books, $4.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 29 books - 10 books of fiction (The Ball and the Cross, The Club of Queer Trades, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Trees of Pride, Tremendous Trifles, and The Wisdom of Father Brown) and 19 collections of essays (All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Defendant, Eugenics and Other Evils, Heretics, Lord Kitchener, A Miscellany of Men, The New Jerusalem, Orthodoxy, Alarms and Discursions, A Short History of England, Twelve Types, Utopia of Usurers and Other, Essays, Varied Types, The Victorian Age in Literature, and What's Wrong with the World). Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it." As a Christian apologist he is widely admired throughout many religious denominations, as well as by many non-Christians[citation needed]. As a political thinker, he cast aspersions on both Liberalism and Conservatism, saying, "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.""

G.K. Chesterton's Fiction: 10 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 10 books: The Ball and the Cross, The Club of Queer Trades, The Innocence of Father Brown, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Man Who Was Thursday, Manalive, The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Trees of Pride, Tremendous Trifles, and The Wisdom of Father Brown.

G.K. Chesterton's Memoirs, Essays, and Letters; 19 books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 19 non-fiction books by G.K. Chesterton: Alarms and Discursions, All Things Considered, The Appetite of Tyranny, The Crimes of England, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, The Defendant, Eugenics and Other Evils, Heretics, Lord Kitchener, A Miscellany of Men, The New Jerusalem, Orthodoxy, Robert Browning, A Short History of England, Twelve Types, Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays, Varied Types, The Victorian Age in Literature, and What's Wrong with the World.  It also includes the individual essays The Barbarism of Berlin and George Bernard Shaw.

Agatha Christie: 2 Mystery Novels, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Mysterious Affair at Style and The Secret Adversary. According to Wikipedia: "Dame Agatha Christie, DBE, (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels—especially those featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and her successful West End theatre plays. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Christie is the best-selling writer of books of all time and, with William Shakespeare, the best-selling author of any kind. Only the Bible has sold more than her roughly four billion copies of novels.According to UNESCO, Christie is the most translated individual author, with only the collective corporate works of Walt Disney Productions surpassing her. Her books have been translated into at least 103 languages."

Complete Poetical Works of Coleridge, $2.99   Add to Cart

His complete poetical works. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) was an English poet, critic and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria."

Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, $1.99   Add to Cart

One of Wilkie Collins' finest novels. According to Wikipedia: "William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and writer of short stories. He was hugely popular in his time, and wrote 27 novels, more than 50 short stories, at least 15 plays, and over 100 pieces of non-fiction work. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale and No Name."

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The story was originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are considered Wilkie Collins' best novels. Besides creating many of the ground rules of the detective novel, The Moonstone also reflected Collins' enlightened social attitudes in his treatment of the servants in the novel."

Joseph Conrad: 17 novels. 5 story collections, and 5 non-fiction books, $4.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 17 novels: Almayer's Folly: a Story of an Eastern River, 1895; An Outcast of the Islands, 1896; The Nigger of the Narcissus: a Story of the Forecastle, 1897; Heart of Darkness, 1899; Lord Jim, 1900; The Inheritors: an Extravagant Story (with Ford Madox Ford), 1901; Typhoon, 1902; Romance (with Ford Madox Ford), 1903; Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard, 1904; The Secret Agent, 1907; The Secret Sharer, 1907; Under Western Eyes, 1911; Chance: a Tale in Two Parts, 1913; Victory: an Island Tale, 1915; The Shadow Line: a Confession, 1917; The Arrow of Gold: a Story Between Two Notes, 1919; and The Rescue: a Romance of the Shallows, 1920. It also includes Conrad's short fiction: Amy Foster, End of the Tether, Falk, A Point of Honor, A Set of Six ( GASPAR RUIZ,  THE INFORMER,  THE BRUTE) ,  THE DUEL,  IL CONDE), Tales of Hearsay (The Warrior's Soul,  Prince Roman,  The Tale,  The Black Mate), Tales of Unrest (KARAIN: A MEMORY, THE IDIOTS, AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS, THE RETURN, THE LAGOON), Tomorrow, Twixt Land and Sea (A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles), Within the Tides (The Planter of Malata, The Partner, The Inn of the Two Witches, Because of the Dollars). and Youth.  In addition it includes five non-fiction volumes: The Mirror of the Sea, Notes on Life and Letters, Notes on My Books, A Personal Record, and Some Reminiscences.

Joseph Conrad: 5 books of memoirs and essays, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes five books: The Mirror of the Sea, Notes on Life and Letters, Notes on My Books, A Personal Record, and Some Reminiscences. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable as he did not learn to peak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a Polish accent). Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee."

Joseph Conrad: 17 novels, $3.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, the Inheritors, Typhoon, romance, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, The Secret Sharer, Under Western Eyes, Chance, Victory, The Shadow Line, The Arrow of Gold, and The Rescue. 

Joseph Conrad: stories and novellas, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Amy Foster, End of the Tether, Falk, A Point of Honor, A Set of Six ( GASPAR RUIZ,  THE INFORMER,  THE BRUTE,  AN ANARCHIST,  THE DUEL,  IL CONDE), Tales of Hearsay (The Warrior's Soul,  Prince Roman,  The Tale,  The Black Mate), Tales of Unrest (KARAIN: A MEMORY, THE IDIOTS, AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS, This book includes: Amy Foster, End of the Tether, Falk, A Point of Honor, A Set of Six ( GASPAR RUIZ,  THE INFORMER,  THE BRUTE,  AN ANARCHIST,  THE DUEL,  IL CONDE), Tales of Hearsay (The Warrior's Soul,  Prince Roman,  The Tale,  The Black Mate), Tales of Unrest (KARAIN: A MEMORY, THE IDIOTS, AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS, THE RETURN, THE LAGOON), Tomorrow, Twixt Land and Sea (A Smile of Fortune, The Secret Sharer, Freya of the Seven Isles), Within the Tides (The Planter of Malata, The Partner, The Inn of the Two Witches, Because of the Dollars), and Youth.

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, $1.99 Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Lord Jim is a novel by Joseph Conrad originally published as a serial in Blackwood's Magazine from October 1899 to November 1900.An early and primary event is the abandonment of a ship in distress by its crew including the young British seaman Jim. He is publicly censured for this action and the novel follows his later attempts at coming to terms with his past.In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Lord Jim #85 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century."

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, $1.99  Add to Cart

 According to Wikipedia: "Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad, is a short novel, presented as a frame narrative, about Charles Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down the Congo River. In the course of his commercial-agent work in the Congo Free State (1885–1908), the seaman Marlow becomes very interested in and investigates Mr Kurtz, an ivory-procurement agent, a man of established notoriety among the native Africans and the European colonials. The story is a thematic exploration of the savagery-versus-civilization relationship, and of the colonialism and the racism that make imperialism possible. Originally published as a three-part serial story, in ‘Blackwood’s Magazine’, the novella Heart of Darkness has been variously published and translated into many languages. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Heart of Darkness as the sixty-seventh top-novel of the hundred-best-novels in English of the twentieth century; and is included to the Western canon."

Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Nigger of the 'Narcissus': A Tale of the Sea (1897) is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major (middle) period; others have placed it as the best work of his early (first) period. John G. Peters said of it in 2006: "The unfortunately titled The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (titled The Children of the Sea in the first American edition) is Conrad's best work of his early period. In fact, were it not for the book's title, it undoubtedly would be read more often than it is currently. At one time, it was one of Conrad's most frequently read books. In part because of its brevity, in part because of its adventure qualities, and in part because of its literary qualities, the novel used to attract a good deal of attention." The author's preface to the novel, regarded as a manifesto of literary impressionism, is considered one of Conrad's significant pieces of non-fiction writing."

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Nostromo is a 1904 novel by Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad, set in the fictitious South American republic of "Costaguana". It was originally published serially in two volumes of T.P.'s Weekly. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nostromo 47th on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald said, "I'd rather have written Nostromo than any other novel."

Chance by Joseph Conrad, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Chance is a novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1913 following serial publication the previous year. Although the novel was not one upon which Conrad's later critical reputation was to depend, it was his greatest commercial success upon initial publication. Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterised by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at different points. The novel is also unusual among its author's works for its focus on a female character: the heroine, Flora de Barral."


Captain Cook's Journal During His First Voyage Round the World, Made in H. M. Bark "Endeavour" 1768-71, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Cook's journals were published upon his return, and he became something of a hero among the scientific community."

Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, both the first (1859) and the sixth (1872) editions, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes the two most important editions of Darwin's masterpiece. The first edition, from 1859, entitled "On the Origin of the Species", and the sixth edition, from 1872), considered the definitive edition. According to Wikipedia: "Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation."

  The Voyage of the Beagle or A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World or Journal of Researches, Illustrated, by Charles Darwin, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Voyage of the Beagle is a title commonly given to the book written by Charles Darwin and published in 1839 as his Journal and Remarks, bringing him considerable fame and respect. The title refers to the second survey expedition of the ship HMS Beagle, which set sail from Plymouth Sound on 27 December 1831 under the command of Captain Robert FitzRoy, R.N.While the expedition was originally planned to last two years, it lasted almost five—the Beagle did not return until 2 October 1836. Darwin spent most of this time exploring on land (three years and three months on land; 18 months at sea).The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written at a time when Western Europeans were exploring and charting the whole world. Although Darwin revisited some areas during the expedition, for clarity the chapters of the book are ordered by reference to places and locations rather than by date. Darwin's notes made during the voyage include comments illustrating his changing views at a time when he was developing his theory of evolution by natural selection and includes some suggestions of his ideas, particularly in the second edition of 1845."

Thomas De Quincey: 8 Books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Avenger, Biographical Essays, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc, Miscellaneous Essays, Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers (both volumes), The Note-Book of an English Opium-Eater, and Revolt of the Tartars. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas de Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). ... His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire, and Nikolai Gogol, but even major 20th century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges admired and claimed to be partly influenced by his work. Berlioz also loosely based his Symphonie Fantastique on Confessions of an English Opium Eater, drawing on the theme of the internal struggle with one's self. De Quincey is also referred to in the Sherlock Holmes short story The Man with the Twisted Lip."

Charles Dickens' Works: 44 books, $5.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes all 16 novels, 12 Christmas stories, 9 collections of stories and sketches, 13 individual stories, and 7 non-fiction books by Charles Dickens.   The novels include: Pickwick, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, a Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, No thoroughfare, and Mystery of Edwin Drood. The Christmas stories are: Battle of Life, Chimes, A Christmas Carol, Haunted man and the Ghost's Bargain, The Holly-Tree, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story. The Child's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. The collections of stories and sketches include: Sketches by Boz, The Uncommerical Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, and A House to Let, among others.

Charles Dickens: all 16 novels, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Hard Time, Little Dorrit, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, No Thoroughfare (with Wilkie Collins), and Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished).   According to Wikipedia: "Charles John Huffam Dickens, (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870), pen-name "Boz", was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victorian era as well as a vigorous social campaigner. Critics George Gissing and G. K. Chesterton championed Dickens's mastery of prose, his endless invention of unique, clever personalities, and his powerful social sensibilities, but fellow writers such as George Henry Lewes, Henry James, and Virginia  faulted his work for sentimentality, implausible occurrences, and grotesque characterizations. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print. Many of Dickens's novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form—a popular format for fiction at the time—and, unlike many other authors who completed entire novels before serial production commenced, Dickens often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor "cliffhanger" after another, to keep the (original) public looking forward to the next installment."

Charles Dickens: 12 Christmas books and stories, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book includes the long stories: The Battle of Life, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket and the Hearth, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain, and The Holly-Tree.  It also includes the short stories: A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is as We Grow Older, The Poor Relation's Story, The Schoolboy's Story, and Nobody's Story. 

Ten books about Charles Dickens, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Charles Dickens and Music by James Lightwood, Charles Dickens as a Reader by Charles Kent, Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G.K. Chesterton, The Inns and Taverns of Pickwick by B.W. Nats, The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick by Frank Lockwood, Life of Charles Dickens by Frank Marzials, Pickwickian Manners and Customs by Percy Fitzgerald, The Puzzle of Dickens's Last Plot by Andrew Lang, Ten Boys from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser, and Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Dickinson Sweetser.

Charles Dickens: 7 non-fiction  books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: American Notes for General Circulation, a Child's History of England, The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, Miscellaneous Papers, Pictures from Italy, Reprinted Pieces, and Speeches: Literary and Social.

Charles Dickens: 9 collections of short stories and sketches, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes 9 collections of stories and sketches: Sketches by Boz, the Uncommerical Traveller, Master Humphrey's Clock, A House to let, Contributions to All the Year Round, Three Ghost Stories, Mudgof and Other Sketches, Sketches of Young Couples, and Sketches of Young Gentlemen.  It also includes 12 individual stories and sketches:  Doctor Marigold, George Silman's Explanation, Going into society, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down, The Lamplighter, A Message from the Sea, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy, Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, Mugby Junction, The Seven Poor Travellers, and Somebody's Luggage. 

Sherlock Holmes: 8 books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes Sherlock Holmes books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, novel, 1887; The Sign of the Four, novel, 1890; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1891-1892 (A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-headed League, A Case of Identity, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Five Orange Pips, The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches), The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1892-1893 (Adventure 1 Silver Blaze, Adventure 2 The Yellow Face, Adventure 3 The Stock-Broker's Clerk, Adventure 4 The "Gloria Scott", Adventure 5 The Musgrave Ritual, Adventure 6 The Reigate Puzzle, Adventure 7 The Crooked Man, Adventure 9 The Greek Interpreter, Adventure 10 The Naval Treaty, Adventure 11 The Final Problem), The Hound of the Baskervilles, novel, 1901-1902; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, collection of stories originally published 1903-1904 (The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Adventure of Black Peter, The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, The Adventure of the Three Students, The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, The Adventure of the Second Stain); The Valley of Fear, novel, 1914- 1915; His Last Bow, collection of stories originally published 1908-1913 and 1917.

Tales of Terror and Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, $1.99   Add to Cart

Collection of stories.  According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, generally considered a milestone in the field of crime fiction, and for the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels."

  Tales and Novels, all ten volumes, by Maria Edgeworth, $4.99  Add to Cart

All of her novels and short stories, including Belinda, Castle Rackrent, Murad the Unlucky, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Absentee, Patronage, Helen, Harrington, and Ormond.  According to Wikipedia: "Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe.[1] She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo...Tales of Fashionable Life (1809 and 1812) is a 2-series collection of short stories which often focus on the life of a woman.[2] The second series was particularly well received in England, making her the most commercially successful novelist of her age. After this, Edgeworth was regarded as the preeminent woman writer in England alongside Jane Austen... Having come to her literary maturity at a time when the ubiquitous and unvarying stated defense of the novel was its educative power, Maria Edgeworth was among the few authors who truly espoused the educator's role.[24] Her novels are morally and socially didactic in the extreme."

George Eliot: 6 novels , $2.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: Adam Bene (1857), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Romola (1863), Middlemarch (1871-72) and Daniel Deronda (1876).  According to Wikipedia: "Mary Ann (Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity. She used a male pen name, she said, to ensure that her works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted to ensure that she was not seen as merely a writer of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with the married George Henry Lewes."

Henry Fielding: Eight Books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes Fielding's five classic novels: Joseph Andrews, 1742; Jonathan Wild, 1743; Tom Jones, 1749; A Journey From This World to the Next, 1749; and Amelia, 1751. It also includes Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great and Miscellaneous Writings, plus The Old Debauchees, a comedy. According to Wikipedia: "Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707 – October 8, 1754) was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones."

  The Golden Bough: a Study of Magic and Religion, one volume abridgement, by Sir James George Frazer, $1.99 Add to Cart

This "abridged" edition is huge -- the equivalent of 10 books the size of Tom Sawyer. The first edition, published 1890, was 2 volumes. The second, published in 1900, was 3 volumes. The third edition, published 1906-1915, was 12 volumes. This edition was published in 1922. According to Wikipedia: "The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist James George Frazer (1854–1941). It first was published in two volumes in 1890; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). It offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The impact of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature was substantial."

The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes:  Volume 1. The Man of Property,  Volume 2. Indian Summer of a Forsyte and In Chancery,  Volume 3. Awakening and To Let. Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.  His Forsyte Saga was the basis for the popular PBS TV series. According to Wikipedia: "John Galsworthy (14 August 1867—31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906—1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932."

 Gilbert and Sullivan: all 14 plays, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Gondoliers, Grand Duke, H.M.S Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia Limited, Yeomen of the Guard, and Patience.  All of these plays/operettas were written 1871 to 1896. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian era partnership of librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900). Together, they wrote fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mikado are among the best known. Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful "topsy-turvy" worlds for these operas, where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong.  Sullivan, six years Gilbert's junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works—which came to be known as the Savoy Operas—and he founded the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted their works for over a century. The Gilbert and Sullivan operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. The collaboration introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humorists."

  Caleb Williams, by William Godwin, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams ... (1794) by William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularization of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime. This reality, in Godwin's mind was therefore a description of "things as they are." The original manuscript included a preface that was removed from publication, because its content alarmed booksellers of the time."

Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries by William Godwin, $1.99  Add to Cart

23 essays including: Body and Mind, Distribution of Talents, Intellectual Abortion, Durability of Human Achievements, Rebelliousness of Man, Human Innocence, Duration of Human Life, Human Vegetation, Leisure, Imitation and Invention, Self-Love and Benevolence, Liberty fo Human Actions, Blief, Youth and Age, Love and Friendship, Frankness and Reserve, Ballot, Diffidence, Self-Complacency, Phrenology, Astronomy, The Material Universe, and Human Virtue.

Italian Letters or The History of the Count de St. Julian, both volumes, by William Godwin, $1.99  Add to Cart
The Gothic Novel: Seven Classic Novels. $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Castle of Otranto by Walpole, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Radcliffe, The Monk by Lewis, Wieland by Brown, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, and Dracula by Stoker.

Thomas Hardy's Fiction, all 20 books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes the complete text of: Desperate Remedies, 1871; Under the Greenwood Tree, 1872; A Pair of Blue Eyes, 1873; Far From the Madding Crowd, 1874; The Hand of Ethelberta, 1876; The Return of the Native, 1878; Wessex Tales, 1879; The Trumpet-Major, 1880; A Laodicean, 1881; Two on a Tower, 1882; The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid, 1883; A Changed Man and Other Tales, 1885; The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886; The Woodlanders, 1887; Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891; A Group of Noble Dames, 1891; Life's Little Ironies, 1891; Jude the Obscure, 1895; The Well-Beloved, 1897; and The Dynasts, 1903.

  G. A. Henty: 72 historical novels, $5.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: Among Malay Pirates: a Tales of Adventure and Peril; At Aboukir and Acre: a Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt; At Agincourt; At the Point of the Bayonet: a Tale of the Mahratta War; Beric the Briton: a Story of the Roman Invasion; Bonnie Prince Charlie: a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden; Both Sides of the Border: a Tale of Hotspur and Glendower; Boy Knight: a Tale of the Crusades; Bravest of the Brave, or With Peterborough in Spain; By Conduct and Courage; By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604); By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic; By Right of Conquest or With Cortez in Mexico; By Sheer Pluck: a Tale of the Ashanti War; Captain Bayley's Heir: a Tale of the Gold Fields of California; Colonel Thorndyke's Secret; Condemned as a Nihilist: a Story of Escape from Siberia; The Cornet of the Horse: a Tale of Marlborough's Wars; Dash for Khartoum: a Tale of the Nile Expedition; The Dragon and the Raven or the Days of King Alfred; A Final Reckoning: a Tale of Bush Life in Australia; For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes; For the Temple: a Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem; Forest and Frontiers or Adventures Among the Indians; Friends Though Divided: a Tale of the Civil War; Girl of the Commune; The Golden Canyon; Held Fast for England: a Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1798-1783); In Freedom's Cause; In the Heart of the Rockies: a Story of Adventure in Colorado; In the Irish Brigade: a Tale of War in Flanders and Spain; In the Reign of Terror: the Adventures of a Westminster Boy; In Times of Peril: a Tale of India; Jack Archer: a Tale of the Crimea; Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service to King Charles XII of Sweden; The Knight of the White Cross; The Lion of St. Mark: a Story of Venice in the Fourteenth; Century; The Lion of the North: a Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus; A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection; No Surrender! a Tale of the Rising in Vendee; On the Irrawaddy: a Story of the First Burmese War; On the Pampas or the Young Settlers; One of the 28th: a Tale of Waterloo; The Orange and the Green: a Tale of Boyne and Limerick; The Queen's Cup; Rujub the Juggler; Saint Batholemew's Eve: a Tale of the Huguenot Wars; Saint George for England; Tales of Daring and Danger; Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots; Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti; The Tiger of Mysore: a Story of the War with Tippoo Saib; The Treasure of the Incas: a Story of Adventure in Peru; True to the Old Flag: a Tale of the American War of Independence; Under Drake's Flag: a Tale of the Spanish Main; Under Wellington's Command: a Tale of the Peninsular War; When London Burned; Winning His Spurs With Buller in Natal or a Born Leader; With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire; With Frederick the Great: a Story of the Seven Years' War; With Kitchener in the Soudan: a Story of Atbara and Omdurman; With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the American Civil War; and With Moore at Corunna.

Leviathan, Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil by Thomas Hobbes, $1.99   Add to Cart

First published in 1651, a classic of political science. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Hobbes (1588 –  1679) was an English philosopher, remembered today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory. Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of fields, including history, geometry, physics of gases, theology, ethics, general philosophy, and political science. His account of human nature as self-interested cooperation has proved to be an enduring theory in the field of philosophical anthropology."

  William Hope Hodgson: 5 books of ghost stories, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'; Carnacki, the Ghost Finder; The Ghost Pirates; The House on the Borderland; and The Night Land. According to Wikipedia: "William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved some renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at the age of 40."

E. W. Hornung: 8 Books of Mystery Stories, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Amateur Cracksman, Dead Men Tell No Tales, Mr. Justice Raffles, No Hero, Raffles, The Shadow of the Rope, Stingaree, and A Thief in the Night.

James Joyce: 4 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Chamber Music (1907), Dubliners (1914), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), and Ulysses (1922. According to Wikipedia: "James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses (1922), a landmark novel which perfected his stream of consciousness technique and combined nearly every literary device available in a modern re-telling of The Odyssey. Other major works are the short-story collection Dubliners (1914), and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939), and his complete oeuvre includes three books of poetry, a play, occasional journalism, and his published letters. Joyce was born to a lower-middle class family in Dublin, where he excelled as a student at the Jesuit schools Clongowes and Belvedere, then at University College, Dublin. In his early twenties he emigrated permanently to continental Europe, living in Trieste, Paris and Zürich. Though most of his adult life was spent abroad, Joyce's fictional universe does not extend beyond Dublin, and is populated largely by characters who closely resemble family members, enemies and friends from his time there; Ulysses in particular is set with precision in the streets and alleyways of the city. Shortly after the publication of Ulysses he elucidated this preoccupation somewhat, saying, “For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.”

John Keats: Poems of 1817 and 1820, plus Endymion, $2.99   Add to Cart

This collection, with poems published in 1817, Endymion, and poems published in 1820, includes his best known works, such as: Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to a Grecian Ur, Ode to Psyche, Lamia, Eve of St. Agnes, Ode on Melancholy, To Autumn, and Hyperion. According to Wikipedia: "John Keats (1795 – 1821) was one of the principal poets of the English Romantic movement. During his short life, his work received constant critical attacks from periodicals of the day, but his posthumous influence on poets such as Alfred Tennyson has been immense. Elaborate word choice and sensual imagery characterize Keats's poetry, including a series of odes that were his masterpieces and which remain among the most popular poems in English literature. Keats's letters, which expound on his aesthetic theory of "negative capability", are among the most celebrated by any writer."

Rudyard Kipling: 29 Books, $4.99  Add to Cart

This file includes 29 books: Actions and Reactions, American Notes, Barrack Room Ballads and Departmental Ditties, Captains Courageous, The Day's Work, A Diversity of Creatures, France at War, Indian Tales, The Jungle Book, Just So Stories, Kim, Letters of Travel, Life's Handicap Being Stories of Mine Own People, The Light that Failed, The Man Who Would Be King, Plain Tales from the Hills, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, Sea Warfare, The Second Jungle Book, Soldiers Three, Songs from Books, Stalky and Company, The Story of the Gadsby, Traffics and Discoveries, Under the Deodars, Verses, The Years Between, and Rudyard Kipling by John Palmer).  According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai (then Bombay, British India), he is best known for his works The Jungle Book (1894) and Just So Stories (1902), his novel, Kim (1901); his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), If— (1910); and his many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works speak to a versatile and luminous narrative gift. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries."

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling,  Illustrated by Joseph M. Gleeson, $1.99   Add to Cart

MAN KANGAROO, THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS, HOW THE FIRST LETTER WAS WRITTEN, HOW THE ALPHABET WAS MADE, THE CRAB THAT PLAYED WITH THE SEA, THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF, and THE BUTTERFLY THAT STAMPED.

All the Mowgli Stories (from The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book) by Rudyard Kipling, $2.99   Add to Cart

This edition includes just, not the illustrations.  For the illustrations, see the individual editions below. Stories from "The Jungle Book" and from "The Second Jungle Book" that tell the story of Mowgli and his animal friends. According to Wikipedia: "The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay down rules for the safety of individuals, families and communities. Kipling put in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamed about the Indian jungle."[2] Other readers have interpreted the work as allegories of the politics and society of the time.[3] The best-known of them are the three stories revolving around the adventures of an abandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle. The most famous of the other stories are probably "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and "Toomai of the Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. As with much of Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by a piece of verse, and succeeded by another. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the morale and fitness of working-class youths in cities. Akela, the head wolf in The Jungle Book, has become a senior figure in the movement, the name being traditionally adopted by the leader of each Cub Scout pack."

  The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

  The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, Illustrated by John Lockwood Kipling, $1.99  Add to Cart

All 12 of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, $4.99   Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes: The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, The Grey Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book. The Crimson Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The Olive Fairy Book, and The Lilac Fairy Book.  According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories."

The Grey Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, $1.99  Add to Cart

Collection of classic fairy tales.  According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (March 31, 1844, Selkirk July 20, 1912, Banchory, Kincardineshire) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales." With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a story title to go to that story.

D. H. Lawrence: 11 Books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The White Peacock, The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love; Aaron's Rod; England, My England; Fantasia of the Unconscious; The Trespasser; Twilight in Italy; Lost Girl; and Sea and Sardinia. According to Wikipedia: "David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, human sexuality and instinct. Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage." At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as, "The greatest imaginative novelist of our generation."

Robert Thomas Malthus: 4 Essays, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes the book "An Essay on the Principle of Population", plus the essays "Observations on the Effects of the Corn Laws", "The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Resrticting the Importation of Foreign Corn", and "An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent".  According to Wikipedia: "The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (13 or 14 February 1766 – 23 or 29 December 1834) was an English scholar, influential in political economy and demography. Malthus popularized the economic theory of rent. Malthus has become widely known for his theories about population and its increase or decrease in response to various factors. The six editions of his An Essay on the Principle of Population, published from 1798 to 1826, observed that sooner or later population gets checked by famine and disease. He wrote in opposition to the popular view in 18th-century Europe that saw society as improving and in principle as perfectible."

Somerset Maugham: 9 Books, $5.99

This file includes seven novels and two books of short stories: The Explorer, The Hero, The Land of the Blessed Virgin, Liza of Lambeth, The Magician, The Moon and Sixpence, Of Human Bondage, Orientations, and The Trembling of a Leaf.

This collection by Somerset Maugham is in the public domain in the US, but is still under copyright elsewhere (until 2036).  To buy this item, please contact us by email seltzer@samizdat.com confirming that you live in the US.  Then you can pay by PayPal, and we'll send you the download link by email.  (Sorry for the inconvenience).

  The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham, $1.99

According to Wikipedia: "The Moon and Sixpence is a novel by W Somerset Maugham, told in episodic form by a first-person narrator, in a series of glimpses into the mind and soul of the central character Charles Strickland, a middle-aged English stockbroker, who abandons his wife and children abruptly to pursue his desire to become an artist. The story is said to be loosely based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin....The inspiration for this story, Gauguin, is considered to be the founder of primitivism in art. The main differences between Gauguin and Strickland are that Gauguin was French rather than English, and whilst Maugham describes the character of Strickland as being largely ignorant of his contemporaries in Modern art (as well as largely ignorant of other artists in general),  Gauguin himself was well acquainted with and exhibited with the Impressionists in the 1880s and lived for awhile with Van Gogh in southern France. According to some sources, the title, the meaning of which is not explicitly revealed in the book, was taken from a review of Of Human Bondage in which the novel's protagonist, Philip Carey, is described as "so busy yearning for the moon that he never saw the sixpence at his feet." According to a 1956 letter from Maugham, "If you look on the ground in search of a sixpence, you don't look up, and so miss the moon."

This book by Somerset Maugham is in the public domain in the US, but is still under copyright elsewhere (until 2036).  To buy this item, please contact us by email seltzer@samizdat.com confirming that you live in the US.  Then you can pay by PayPal, and we'll send you the download link by email.  (Sorry for the inconvenience).

John Stuart Mill: 10 Books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: On Libery, Utilitariansism, Considerationson Representative Government, The Contest in America, Socialism, The Subjection of Women, Auguste Comte and Positivism, A System of Logic, Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, and Autobiography.  According to Wikipedia: "John Stuart Mill, (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873) was a British philosopher, political economist and civil servant. He was an influential contributor to social theory, political theory, and political economy. He has been called "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century". Mill's conception of liberty justified the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state control."

John Milton's Poetic Works, $2.99   Add to Cart

Paradise Lost (1667), Paradise Regained (1671), Samson Agonistes (1671), and Minor Poems (1645). According to Wikipedia: "John Milton (December 9, 1608 ? November 8, 1674) was an English poet, prose polemicist, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. Most famed for his epic poem Paradise Lost, Milton is celebrated as well for his treatise condemning censorship, Areopagitica. Long considered the supreme English poet, Milton experienced a dip in popularity after attacks by T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis in the mid 20th century; but with multiple societies and scholarly journals devoted to his study, Milton's reputation remains as strong as ever in the 21st century."

Utopia by Sir Thomas More, $1.99   Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Utopia is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in 1516... The book, written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs... Sir Thomas More (February 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535), also known as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, scholar, author, and statesman. He is also recognised as a saint within the Catholic Church. During his life he gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist, an opponent of the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther and wrote long treatises opposing William Tyndale and others who wished to see the Bible translated into the English language.  For three years toward the end of his life he was Lord Chancellor."

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty, complete unabridged edition, $1.99   Add to Cart

This is the complete edition, originally published in 1893. According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Pepys, (23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary that he kept during 1660?1669 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London."

The Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott: All 26 Books, $3.99  Add to Cart

All 26 Waverley Novels, arranged in chronological order by setting: Count Robert of Paris, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Ivanhoe, Castle Dangerous, The Fair Maid of Perth, Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Fortunes of Nibel, A Legend of Montrose, Woodstock, Peveril of the Peak, The Tale of Old Mortality, The Pirate, The Black Dwarf, The Bride of Lammermoor, Rob Roy, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Waverley, Guy Mannering, Redgauntlet, The Antiquary, and St. Ronan's Well.  According to Wikpedia: "The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe." 

Shakespeare's Works, with line numbers: 11 tragedies, 12 comedies, 10 histories, 4 romances, and poetry, $3.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes all of Shakespeare's plays, with line numbers  (11 tragedies, 12 comedies, 10 histories, and 4 romances), plus his poetry (Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Lover's Complaint, and Passionate Pilgrim. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright."

Shakespeare's Works, Trilingual Edition (in English with line Numbers and in French and German translations), $4.99  Add to Cart

All of Shakespeare's poetry and plays (11 tragedies, 12 comedies, 10 histories, and 4 romances) in English with line numbers and in French translation; and many of his plays in German translation as well.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, $2.99   Add to Cart

The 3-volume Oxford edition, edited by Thomas Hutchinson, and first published in 1904. According to Wikipedia: "Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets and is widely considered to be among the finest lyric poets of the English language. He is perhaps most famous for such anthology pieces as Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark, and The Masque of Anarchy. However, his major works were long visionary poems including Alastor, Adonais, The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound and the unfinished The Triumph of Life."

Frankenstein or the New Prometheus by Mary Shelley, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by Mary Shelley about a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Shelley had travelled in the region of Geneva, where much of the story takes place, and the topics of galvanism and other similar occult ideas were themes of conversation among her companions, particularly her future husband, Percy Shelley. The storyline emerged from a dream. Mary, Percy, Lord Byron, and John Polidori decided to have a competition to see who could write the best horror story. After thinking for weeks about what her possible storyline could be, Shelley dreamt about a scientist who created life and was horrified by what he had made. She then wrote Frankenstein."

The Last Man, all three volumes, by Mary Shelley, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "The Last Man is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by Mary Shelley, which was first published in 1826. The book tells of a future world that has been ravaged by a plague. The novel was harshly reviewed at the time, and was virtually unknown until a scholarly revival beginning in the 1960s. It is notable in part for its semi-biographical portraits of Romantic figures in Shelley's circle, particularly Shelley's late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron."


Defense of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "A Defence of Poetry is an essay by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840 in Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840) [1839]. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".


  A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated, $1.99  Add to Cart

Illustrated. According to Wikipedia: "A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65 poems including the cherished classics "Foreign Children," "The Lamplighter," "The Land of Counterpane," "Bed in Summer," "My Shadow" and "The Swing."

  Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, illustrated by Milo Winter, $1.99  Add to Cart

The classic pirate story, with Long John Silver. According to Wikipedia: "Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North. With Jim Hawkins as the main character in the story."

South Sea Tales, AKA Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Island Nights' Entertainments (also known as South Sea Tales) is a collection of short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1893. It would be some of his last finished works before he died in 1894. It contains three stories: The Beach of Falesá, The Bottle Imp, and The Isle of Voices."
Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift, $1.99   Add to Cart

The satiric voyages to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg, Japan, and the Country of the Houyhnhnms. According to Wikipedia: "Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745) was an Anglo-Irish cleric, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for Tories), and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language..."

Thackeray: 26 Books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Adventures of Major Gahagan, Barry Lyndon, The Bedford-Row Conspiracy, The Book of Snobs, Burlesques, Catherine, The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh (including The Rose and The Ring), The Fatal Boots, The Fitz-Boodle Papers, Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, George Cruikshank, The History of Henry Esmond, The History of Pendennis, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond, John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character, A Little Dinner at Timmins's, Little Travels and Roadside Sketches by Titmarsh, Memoirs of Mr Charles J. Yellowplush, Men's Wives, The Newcomes, The Paris Sketch Book, Roundbout Papers, The Second Funeral of Napoleon, Vanity Fair, The Virginians, and The Wolves and the Lamb.

Barsetshire Novels by Anthony Trollope, All 6 Books, $2.99  Add to Cart

The Barsetshire Novel series includes: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Dr. Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset. This file has an active (hyperlinked) table of contents.  Click on a book title and go to the beginning of that book.  Push Back to return to the Table of Contents. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day."

Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope, All 6 Books, $2.99  Add to Cart

The books of the Palliser series are: Can You Forgive Her? Phineas Finn, The Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Redux, The Prime Minister, and The Duke's Children. This addition includes an active (hyperlinked) table of contents.  Click on a book title to go to that book, and use the Back button to return to the Table of Contents. According to Wikipedia: "Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day."

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, $1.99  Add to Cart

"Let the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street. Lady Carbury spent many hours at her desk, and wrote many letters wrote also very much beside letters. She spoke of herself in these days as a woman devoted to Literature, always spelling the word with a big L. Something of the nature of her devotion may be learned by the perusal of three letters which on this morning she had written with a quickly running hand. Lady Carbury was rapid in everything, and in nothing more rapid than in the writing of letters." According to Wikipedia: "The Way We Live Now is a satirical novel published in London in 1875 by Anthony Trollope, after a popular serialisation. In 1872 Trollope returned to England from abroad and was appalled by the greed which was loose in the land. His scolding rebuke was his longest novel. Containing over a hundred chapters, The Way We Live Now is particularly rich in sub-plot. It was inspired by the financial scandals of the early 1870s, and lashes out at the pervading dishonesty of the age, commercial, political, moral, and intellectual. It is one of the last significant Victorian novels to have been published in monthly parts."

  The Malay Archipelago, both volumes by Alfred Russel Wallace, $1.99

According to Wikipedia: "The Malay Archipelago is a book by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace that chronicles his scientific exploration, during the eight-year period 1854 to 1862, of the southern portion of the Malay Archipelago including Malaysia, Singapore, the islands of Indonesia, then known as the Dutch East Indies, and the island of New Guinea. It was published in two volumes in 1869, delayed by Wallace's ill health and the work needed to describe the many specimens he brought home. The book went through ten editions in the nineteenth century; it has been reprinted many times since, and has been translated into at least eight languages.The book described each island that he visited in turn, giving a detailed account of its physical and human geography, its volcanoes, and the variety of animals and plants that he found and collected. At the same time, he describes his experiences, the difficulties of travel, and the help he received from the different peoples that he met. The preface notes that he travelled over 14,000 miles and collected 125,660 natural historyinsects though also with thousands of molluscs, birds, mammals and reptiles."

The Natural History of Selborne, both volumes  (1790), by Gilbert White $1.99   Add to Cart

Natural history of a town in England, first published in 1790.  According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert White FRS (18 July 1720 – 26 June 1793) was a pioneering English naturalist and ornithologist… White is best known for his The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789). This was a compilation of his letters to Thomas Pennant, the leading British zoologist of the day, and the Hon. Daines Barrington, an English barrister and another Fellow of the Royal Society. These letters contained White's discoveries about local birds, animals and plants. He believed in distinguishing birds by observation rather than by collecting specimens, and was thus one of the first people to separate the similar-looking Common Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Wood Warbler by means of their song. White is regarded by many as England's first ecologist and one of the founders of modern respect for nature."

Oscar Wilde: 22 Books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, Shorter Prose Pieces, A Critic in Pall Mall, Essays and Lectures, Intentions, The Soul of Man, Miscellanies, Reviews, Selected Prose, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, A House of Pomegrantes, The Duchess of Padua, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, Vera, A Woman of No Importance, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Charmides and Other Poems, and Selected Poems.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, $1.99  Add to Cart

Classic novel. The Preface begins: "The artist is the creator of beautiful things.  To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.  The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.  The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.  This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.  They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.  That is all." According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of 'gross indecency.'"

  Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde, $1.99 Add to Cart

Story collection including: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx, Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, and The Portrait of Mr. W. H. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of the offence of 'gross indecency.'"

  A Vindication of the Rights of Women, With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft, $1.99  Add to Cart

Seminal work on the rights of woman. According to Wikipedia: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political theorists of the 18th century who did not believe women should have an education. She argues that women ought to have an education commensurate with their position in society, claiming that women are essential to the nation because they educate its children and because they could be "companions" to their husbands, rather than mere wives. Instead of viewing women as ornaments to society or property to be traded in marriage, Wollstonecraft maintains that they are human beings deserving of the same fundamental rights as men. Wollstonecraft was prompted to write the Rights of Woman after reading Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord's 1791 report to the French National Assembly, which stated that women should only receive a domestic education; she used her commentary on this specific event to launch a broad attack against sexual double standards and to indict men for encouraging women to indulge in excessive emotion. Wollstonecraft wrote the Rights of Woman hurriedly in order to respond directly to ongoing events; she intended to write a more thoughtful second volume but died before completing it."

  Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of Women" by William Godwin, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "In January 1798 Godwin published his Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Although Godwin felt that he was portraying his wife with love, compassion, and sincerity, many readers were shocked that he would reveal Wollstonecraft's illegitimate children, love affairs, and suicide attempts. The Romantic poet Robert Southey accused him of "the want of all feeling in stripping his dead wife naked" and vicious satires such as The Unsex'd Females were published. Godwin's Memoirs portrays Wollstonecraft as a woman deeply invested in feeling who was balanced by his reason and as more of a religious sceptic than her own writings suggest."

Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft, $1.99

Maria or the Wrongs of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is the 18th century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothicpatriarchal institution of marriage in eighteenth-century Britain and the legal system that protected it. However, the heroine's inability to relinquish her romantic fantasies also reveals women's collusion in their oppression through false and damaging sentimentalism. The novel pioneered the celebration of female sexuality and cross-class identification between women. Such themes, coupled with the publication of Godwin's scandalous Memoirs of Wollstonecraft's life, made the novel unpopular at the time it was published.Twentieth-century feminist critics embraced the work, integrating it into the history of the novel and feminist discourse. It is most often viewed as a fictionalized popularization of the Rights of Woman, as an extension of Wollstonecraft's feminist arguments in Rights of Woman, and as autobiographical." novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as autobiographical."

Mary, a Fiction by Mary Wollstonecraft, $1.99  Add to Cart

According to Wikipedia: "Mary: A Fiction is the only complete novel by the 18th-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. It tells the tragic story of a heroine's successive "romantic friendships" with a woman and a man. Composed while Wollstonecraft was a governess in Ireland, the novel was published in 1788 shortly after her summary dismissal and her momentous decision to embark on a writing career, a precarious and disreputable profession for women in 18th-century Britain.Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's idea that geniuses are self-taughtgenius (a word which at the end of the 18th century was only beginning to take on its modern meaning of exceptional or brilliant), Wollstonecraft describes Mary as independent and capable of defining femininity and marriage for herself. It is Mary's "strong, original opinions" and her resistance to "conventional wisdom" that mark her as a genius. Making her heroine a genius allowed Wollstonecraft to criticize marriage as well: geniuses were "enchained" rather than enriched by marriage. Through this heroine Wollstonecraft also critiques 18th-century sensibilityMary rewrites the traditional romance plot through its reimagination of gender relations and female sexuality. Yet, because Wollstonecraft employs the genre of sentimentalism to critique sentimentalism itself, her "fiction", as she labels it, sometimes reflects the same flaws of sentimentalism that she is attempting to expose.Wollstonecraft later repudiated Mary, writing that it was laughable. However, scholars have argued that, despite its faults, the novel's representation of an energetic, unconventional, opinionated, rational, female genius (the first of its kind in English literature) within a new kind of romance is an important development in the history of the novel because it helped shape an emerging feminist discourse."

Virginia Woolf: four books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Jacob's Room, Monday or Tuesday, Night and Day, and The Voyage Out. According to Wikipedia: "Adeline Virginia Woolf (pronounced /ˈwʊlf/; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, $2.99   Add to Cart

Volumes 1 to 4 of the 8 volume collection edited by William Knight, in a single file.  These volumes include his finest and best-known poems (composed 1787-1813), including The Prelude. According to Wikipedia: "William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their 1798 joint publication, Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semi autobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was England's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850."


Canadian Literature and History

Grant Allen, 19 books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: An African Millionaire, The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories, Biographies of Working Men, The British Barbarians, Charles Darwin, Early Britain, Falling In Love, The Great Taboo, Hilda Wade, Michael's Crag, Miss Cayley's Adventures, Philistia, Post-Prandial Philosophy, Recalled to Life, Science in Arcady, Strange STories, What's Bred in the Bone, The White Man's Foot, and The Woman Did It.  According to Wikipedia: "Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a science writer, author and novelist, and a successful upholder of the theory of evolution."

Robert Barr, 16 books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This file includes: The Face and the Mask, From Whose Bourne, The Heralds of Fame, In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories, In the Midst of Alarms, Jennie Baxter Journalist, Lord Batranleigh Abroad, One Day's Courtship, The O'Rudy, A Prince of Good Fellows,  Revenge! A Rock in the Baltic, The Strong Arm, The Sword Maker, The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont, and A Woman Intervenes. According to Wikipedia: "Robert Barr (September 16, 1849 – October 21, 1912) was a British-Canadian novelist, born at Glasgow, Scotland. He immigrated to Upper Canada at age four and was educated in Toronto at Toronto Normal School. Barr was headmaster of the Central School, Windsor, Ontario, and in 1876 became a member of the staff of the Detroit Free Press, in which his contributions appeared under the signature "Luke Sharp." In 1881 he removed to London, to establish there the weekly English edition of the Free Press, and in 1892 founded The Idler magazine, choosing Jerome K. Jerome as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name")."

Bliss Carman, 6 books of poetry, $2.99  Add to Cart

This collection includes the poetry books: Ballads of Lost Haven, Behind the Arras, Later Poems, More songs from Vagabondia, Sappho, and Songs from Vagabondia.  According to Wikipedia: ""Bliss Carman (April 15, 1861 – June 8, 1929) was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. In Canada Carman is classed as one of the Confederation Poets, a group which also included Charles G.D. Roberts (his cousin), Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott. Of the group, Carman had the surest lyric touch and achieved the widest international recognition."

Ralph Connor, 12 books and 2 short stories, $3.99  Add to Cart

This collection of books by Canadian author Ralph Connor includes: Beyond the Marshes, Black Rock, Corporal Cameron, The Docotr, The Foreigner, Glengarry Schooldays, The Major, The Man from Glengarry, Michael McGrath, The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail, The Prospector, The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land, and To Him that Hath.  According to Wikipedia: "Rev. Dr. Charles William Gordon, or Ralph Connor, (September 13, 1860 – October 31, 1937) was a Canadian novelist, using the Connor pen name while maintaining his status as a Church leader, first in the Presbyterian and later the United churches in Canada. Gordon was also at one time a master at Upper Canada College. He sold more than five million copies of his works in his lifetime, and some of his works are still in print... Gordon became interested in writing during his student days at the University of Toronto. He published his first novel, Black Rock, in 1898. While the book was moderately successful in Canada, his second novel, The Sky Pilot, gained him international attention in 1899 and sold more than 1,000,000 copies. The Sky Pilot, like many of his works, was a frontier adventure with strong themes of morality and justice. He continued to write until his death in 1937."

James De Mille, 11 Books, $3.99  Add to Cart

This collection includes: The American Baron, Among the Brigands, A Castle in Spain, Cord and Creese, The Cryptogram, The Dodge Club, The Lady of the Ice, The Lily and the Cross, The Living Link, Lost in the Fog, and A Strange Mauscript Found ina Copper Cyliner.  According to Wikipedia: "James De Mille (23 August 1833 – 28 January 1880) was a professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and an early Canadian popular writer who published numerous works of popular fiction from the late 1860s through the 1870s."

Sara Jeannette Duncan, 8 books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: A Daughter of To-Day, The Story of Sonny Sahib, A Voyage of Consolation, Hilda: a Story of Calcutta, The Path of a Star, The Pool in the Deesrt, The Imperialist, and Down Under With the Prince. According to Wikipedia: "Sara Jeannette Duncan (22 December 1861 – 22 July 1922), was a Canadian author and journalist… Sara Jeannette Duncan published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short stories. One of her most famous sayings is "One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself." She was a very lively person and loved to laugh... Duncan is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist."

May Agnes Fleming, 9 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This collection includes 9 books: The Actress' Daugher, The Baronet's Bride, Kate Danton, The Midnight Queen, Norine's Revenge, Sharing Her Crime, Sir Noel's Heir, A Terrible Secret, and The Unseen Bridegroom.  According to Wikipedia: "May Agnes Fleming (November 15, 1840 - March 24, 1880) was a Canadian novelist. She was "one of the first Canadians to pursue a highly successful career as a writer of popular fiction." She was born May Early in Carleton, West Saint John, New Brunswick. She married an engineer, John W. Fleming in 1865. She moved to New York two years after her first novel, Erminie; or The gypsy's vow: a tale of love and vengeance was published there (1863). Under the pseudonym Cousin May Carleton, she published several serial tales in the New York Mercury and the New York Weekly. 21 were printed in book form, 7 posthumously. She also wrote under the pseudonym, M.A. Earlie. The exact count is unclear, since her works were often retitled, but is estimated at around 40, although some were not actually written by her, but were attributed to her by publishers cashing in on her popularity. At her peak, she was earning over $10,000 yearly, due to publishers granting her exclusive rights to her work.

Histoire Du Canada Depuis Sa Decouverte Jusqu'a Nos Jours Par François-Xavier Garneau, en français, 4 tomes, $2.99  Add to Cart

Wikipedia: "François-Xavier Garneau (Québec 15 juin 1809 - 3 février 1866) était un historien canadien-français. Il était un autodidacte et ce grâce à sa rencontre avec un éducateur du nom de Joseph-François Perrault. À 16 ans il entre comme clerc dans l'étude d'Archibal Campbell pour obtenir le titre de notaire en 1830. Son histoire du Canada fera de lui le plus influent historien du XIXe siècle dans son pays. Avec ce grand livre, il a voulu, à cette époque, faire mentir le rapport de Lord Durham qui qualifiait le Bas-Canada «de peuple sans histoire et sans littérature»."

Thomas Chandler Haliburton: 3 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book collection includes: The Clockmaker, The Attache (both volumes), and Nature and Human Nature.  According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Chandler Haliburton (December 17, 1796 – August 27, 1865) was a politician, judge, and author in the British Colony of Nova Scotia. He was the first international best-selling author from what is now Canada and played a significant role in the history of Nova Scotia prior to its entry into Confederation."

E. Pauline Johnson, 4 books, $2.99  Add to Cart

Classic fiction and poetry. This file includes: Flint and Feather, Legends of Vancouver, The Moccasin Maker, and The Shagganappi.  According to Wikipedia: "Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwak, literally: 'double-life') (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage; her father was a Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry, and her mother an English immigrant. One such poem is the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings". Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature."

Canadian Humor by Stephen Leacock: 12 Books, $3.99   Add to Cart

This file includes: Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich, Behind the Beyond, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, The Hohenzollerns in America with the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities, Literary Lapses, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, My Discovery of England, Nonsense Novels, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice, and Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels. According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. In the early part of the 20th century he was the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world."

Canadian History by Stephen Leacock: 2 Books, $2.99   Add to Cart

This file includes The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada and The Mariner of Malo, a Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacque Cartier, both from Chronicles of Canada and both first published in 1914.  According to Wikipedia: "Stephen Butler Leacock, FRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was an English-born Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. In the early part of the 20th century he was the best-known humorist in the English-speaking world.

Anne of Green Gables (Anne Shirley) Novels: 8 books by Lucy Maud Montgomery, $2.99  Add to Cart

This book-collection file includes, in order: Anne of Green Gables, 1908, Anne's age 11-16; Anne of Avonlea, 1909, 16-18; Anne of the Island, 1915, 18-22; Anne's House of Dreams, 1917, 25-27; Rainbow Valley, 1919, 41; Rilla of Ingleside, 1921, 49-53. It also includes two related books in which Anne Shirley appears, but not as the main character: Chronicles of Avonlea, 1912, and Further Chronicles of Avonlea, 1920.  It does not include (because they are not yet available: Anne of the Windy Poplars, 1936, 22-25, and  Anne of Ingleside, 1939, 34-40. According to Wikipedia: "The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and several other television movies and programs, including Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996."

Lucy Maud Montgomery: Story Girl and its sequel, The Golden Road, $2.99  Add to Cart
This file includes both The Story Girl and its sequel The Golden Road.