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Readers who were enticed by The Martian Tales Trilogy will delight even more in the fourth and fifth installments in Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian Tales series, Thuvia, Maid of Mars and Chessmen of Mars. The hero of the first three novels, the earthling John Carter, has faded into the background,...

Collected in this volume are spine-tingling tales showing us that below the ground and at the top of mountain peaks lurk nameless gods and ghouls, powerful and horrific.  In cemeteries and desert wastes and swampy bogs, the evidence of past civilizations remains waiting to be uncovered, ominously portending...

Chesterton shows himself as a master of literary criticism in this insightful work that provides a cogent analysis of Tennyson’s style, intellect, and influence upon his age. Tennyson is one the most popular English-language poets of all time; Chesterton proclaims that “no other poet since Shakespeare has produced a body of poetry which comes so near to satisfying all tastes.”

Sinclair begins, “This is the story of Edward B---, as he told it to me a few days before he died...” In this 1907 variation on Robinson Crusoe, an English musician marooned on a desert island for twenty years discovers his true self and his place in society.

The title piece of this collection follows the story of a man who is so disgruntled with his neighbors that he moves his family to a remote island off the coast of Maine, vowing to live with his wife and daughter in isolation. Though he fulfills his vow, his wife and daughter are unhappy with this lonely...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The contemporary short-story is unimaginable without Anton Chekhov.  He stripped the story of many of the features that had seemed essential to nineteenth-century readers: plot, narrative tension, and denouement. Terms...

Masterpieces of careful plotting and surprise endings, O. Henry’s short stories are classics of American literature. Many of O. Henry’s stories feature everyday New Yorkers going about their lives and reveal his affection for the ordinary man. Spellbinding reading for any fan of the short story,...

A story of sacrificial love, The Gift of the Magi is a classic for the Christmas season and beyond.  A husband and wife cannot afford to give each other presents unless they give up their own greatest treasures.  With touching twists, O. Henry unfolds a story of profound implications.

The Eyes of Asia consists of four letters written by a fictional soldier of the Indian Army—part of the British Forces in WWI—serving in Europe and Africa. Based on Kipling’s firsthand experience with Indian soldiers, the letters are an intriguing form of fiction and an unusual portrait of these lesser-known combatants in the Great War.

Written while Hearn was a professor of English literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo, Shadowings (1900) consists of three sections on various subjects. The first, “Stories from Strange Books,” contains six stories of horror folklore. The second section, "Japanese Studies," has musings on...

First published serially beginning in 1841, this historical novel by Dickens is set in London during the Gordon riots of 1780.  Desperate to prevent the marriage of his niece, Emma, to Edward Chester, Geoffrey Haredale enters into a doomed alliance with Edward's untrustworthy father, John.  Murder and blackmail result.

Historian Mandell Creighton’s biography of Queen Elizabeth follows her life from her youth through the problems of her reign; her relationship with Mary Stuart; her excommunication; the Alencon marriage; and her later years. A vivid portrait of a complex person, Creighton states this to be a “sketch...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead is by far the most sensational book handed down from the priests of ancient Egypt. After nearly 4500 years it still intrigues modern readers with its imaginative insights into the universal human condition and the desire for a blissful afterlife. Entombed with...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.In E. A. Wallis Budge's classic work, Babylonian Life and History, the reader will find everything from Babylonian vampires to the practice of "baby farming" in Mesopotamia. Budge brings to his readers the most famous...