Christmas comes but once a year so celebrate it in style with A Christmas Treasury,
a collection of classic stories and poems that commemorate the yuletide season. Abundantly illustrated with the work of Arthur Rackham, Mary Cowles Clark, Alice Ercle ...
When millions suffer under oppression, when resentment boils into bloody insurrection, when triumph leads to
savage vengeance—can one individual life matter? In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens sets the intensely personal dramas of Lucie Manette, Charles Darnay, and ...
Aesop's Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have ...
In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that
fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the ...
Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck
Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life ...
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale
of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse ...
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through
Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ...
From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their
young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine's hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff's emotions know no bounds and ...