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Eaten away by illness, an elderly coffin maker named Yakov reflects on his life—in particular his indifferent relationship with his now-deceased wife, Marfa, and his antipathy towards Rothschild, the flutist in the Jewish klezmer orchestra in which Yakov occasionally plays. HarperPerennial...

Fans of Victorian Classics are in for a treat! Included in this awesome multipack: Middlemarch by George Eliot (Special Edition) Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (Illustrated) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (Special ‘Magic’ Edition) Bleak House by Charles Dickens...

No home library is complete without the classics! This new collection of stories from Brothers Grimm: 101 Fairy Tales is a keepsake to be read and treasured. They are the stories of characters we’ve known since childhood: Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella. But the works originally...

TABLE OF CONTENTS:Sir Richard Steele (Born in 1672, died in 1729.)I: Of Companions and FlatterersII: The Story-Teller and His Art. (From The Guardian)III: Sir Roger and the Widow. (From The Spectator)IV: The Coverley Family Portraits. (From The Spectator)V: On Certain Symptoms of Greatness. (From The...

The beloved author and illustrator Beatrix Potter’s tales have delighted and charmed readers across the world since the first publication of ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’ in 1902. Potter’s imaginative children’s books are now celebrated for their detailed depiction of animals and evocative...

Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan is Morgan Robertson’s 1898 novella about the unsinkable ship Titan, which goes down after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Disgraced former naval lieutenant John Rowland is working as a deckhand on the Titan when it strikes an iceberg and capsizes. Saving...

A "Great American Novel" is a novel which is of high literary merit and shows the culture of the United States at a specific time in its history. It is presumably written by an American author who is knowledgeable about the state, culture, and perspective of the common American citizen. At one time,...

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ground breaking story follows a number of characters through their vastly different journeys and disparate points of view. Whether on the road to freedom travelling the Underground Railroad, or remaining in captivity, Stowe’s narrative exposed the bleak and harrowing nature...

Written as a continuation of her sensational 1852 text, Roughing it in the Bush, Susanna Moodie’s Life in the Backwoods continues the narrative of her experience as a settler in mid-nineteenth century Upper Canada. By relating her own experiences and those of the community of pioneers also living...

This Classic Western Stories anthology by Golden Deer Classics contains the following stories: The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper The Prairie - James Fenimore Cooper Astoria - Washington Irving Malaeska, The Indian Wife Of The White Hunter - Ann S. Stephens The Bridge of the Gods - Frederic...

No library's complete without the classics! This edition collects the greatest works of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose stories of excitement and adventure will never be forgotten. He wrote stories of chance and peril, pirates and buried gold. He told tales of good and evil, of men struggling...

Table of ContentsINDEX by AuthorThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance GarnettAround the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne Translated by Geo M. TowleThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonThe Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre DumasCrime and...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Notes from Underground’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually...

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Gambler’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted...