A naive American finds himself out of his element in Europe....

A fascinating account by an eyewitness of the formation and heroic deeds of the first black regiment in the civil war....

Ben-Hur could be said to be the first American blockbuster...

In the early 1850s, Henry David Thoreau took many meditative walks along the coast....

This book is considered to be the best account of the Civil War ever written from the Confederate point of view.

The Cossacks is one of the finest depictions of Cossack society in Russian literature....

This is the original classic story of Bram Stoker's undead monster....

In The Europeans, Eugenia, Baroness Munster, is about to be repudiated by her husband, a German prince....

A comet speeds toward earth, a deadly, glowing orb that soon fills the sky and promises doom...

The real Jonathan Wild, born about 1682 and executed at Tyburn in 1725, was one of the most notorious criminals of his age....

When Marshal of the Nobility Pozdnyshev suspects his wife of having an affair with her music partner, his jealousy consumes him and drives him to murder....

A tale of demonic possession and of the terrible price paid by those who would exalt art at the expense of everything else....

This unique collection features some of the best short stories every written....

Emile Zola, along with fellow novelists Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert, was an early realist in French literature....

Davy Crockett was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (1786)....

The melodramatic saga of the flight of Little Nell and her grandfather captured the public's attention....

One of the greatest of French novelists, Balzac, trained as a lawyer, was a great judge of human nature....

Along with Mark Twain, William Dean Howells was one of the great novelists of his time....

A blood-red flower is his calling card, daring rescues are his mission. The Scarlet Pimpernel...

Elinor Dashwood is a great believer in "sense," while her exuberant younger sister Marianne feels keenly that only "sensibility" serves to guide the heart....

Sterne is one of the most original and unexpected of writers, and A Sentimental Journey differs from other travel books as greatly as Tristram Shandy differs from other novels....

Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the roles of the leaders of his race....

Enjoy stories of the past and the future by the author of The Time Machine...

The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades, a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit.

Emile Zola (1840-1902) was one of the giants of French literature....