The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
EAN: 9781433247972
Summary: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a humorous and nostalgic book depicting the carefree days of boyhood in a small Midwestern town. The characters are based on Twain?s schoolmates and the town, Hannibal, Missouri, is where Twain grew up.Just what did boys do in a small town during the mid-1800s, a time when there were no televisions, no arcades, and no videos? They whitewashed fences, floated down rivers, traded marbles, formed secret societies, smoked pipes, and, on occasion, managed to attend the... More
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
EAN: 9780786133673
Summary: Pride and Prejudice captures the affectations of class-conscious eighteenth-century English families with matrimonial aims and rivalries. The story of the novel’s two protagonists, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy, is told with wit and thoroughly describes the problems that arise from miscommunication, first impressions, true love, and scandal. More
Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
EAN: 9781598874501
Summary: The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. In the ancient world of Middle-earth—a place of elves and dwarves, orcs and wizards, the darkest evil and the brightest good—a hobbit named Frodo Baggins embarks on a perilous quest: to carry the One Ring, ruler of all the Rings of Power, into the shadowy land of Mordor and destroy it in the fires where it was forged. More
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
EAN: 9780786142552
Summary: Presents the story of a young matron living in New Orleans in the late 1800's and the conflicts that disturb her seemingly pleasant life. More
Anthem
Ayn Rand
EAN: 9781598872200
Summary: Ayn Rand's classic bestseller, Anthem, is the unforgettable tale of a nightmarish totalitarian future—and the ultimate triumph of the individual spirit. First published in 1938, and often compared with Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World, this beautifully written story has introduced millions to Rand's provocative worldview.Rand's protagonist, Equality 7-2521, describes a surreal world of faceless, nameless drones who "exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. A... More
Dracula
Bram Stoker
EAN: 9780786131204
Summary: The Dracula mythology has inspired a vast subculture, but the story has never been better told than by Bram Stoker. His myth is powerful because it allows evil to remain mysterious. The high virtue of Lucy can simply be drained away, like her blood, and scientific skill cannot resist the dreadful potency of the undead. Only the old magic is effective against the Count’s appalling power. More
Middlemarch (Library Edition)
George Eliot
EAN: 9781400128631
Summary: One of the most accomplished and prominent novels of the Victorian era, Middlemarch is an unsurpassed portrait of nineteenth-century English provincial life. More
The House of the Seven Gables
Nathaniel Hawthorne
EAN: 9781433286797
Summary: A prominent New England family with a legacy of greed, a creepy old house and a two hundred year old curse are the elements that have made The House of the Seven Gables a continuing favorite generation after generation. More
The Last of the Mohicans (Library Edition)
James Fenimore Cooper
EAN: 9781400190805
Summary: A story of survival and treachery, love and deliverance, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans follows an adroit scout named Hawkeye and his companion Chingachgook, who weave through the spectacular and dangerous wilderness of upstate New York during the French and Indian wars, fighting to save the beautiful Munro sisters from the Huron renegade Magua. More
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
EAN: 9780786151301
Summary: Anna Karenina contains two plots: the tragedy of Madame Karenina, in love with a man who is not her husband, and the story of Konstantine Levin, a sensitive man whose personal philosophy is Tolstoy’s reason for writing about him. More
