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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte's classic novel of Catherine and Heathcliff set on the Yorkshire moors;and contains introduction, textual and explanatory notes, chronology, and genealogicaltable.


Wuthering Heights

Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwooduncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.


Wuthering Heights

Forced by a storm to spend the night at the home of Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwooduncovers a tale of terror and hatred on the Yorkshire moors.











Uncle Tom's cabin

The story of American slavery and Uncle Tom, an African-American man who neverlost his dignity under the most inhumane circumstances.


The three musketeers

The heroic young d'Artagnan and his noble compatriots Athos, Porthos, and Aramisare pitted against the master of intrigue, Cardinal Richelieu, and the quintessentialwicked woman, Lady de Winter.


Sense and sensibility

Presents Jane Austen's first published novel about two sisters of differenttemperaments whose bad luck in love brings them to a closer understanding of eachother.











The scarlet letter

Hester Prynne, condemned by Puritan law to wear the scarlet letter "A" for adultress,endures her ostracism with dignity, while her lover is tormented by the burden of anunexposed sin.


The scarlet letter

Hester Prynne, a young wife in colonial New England, is sentenced to wear a scarlet"A" on her clothing, as a public acknowledgement of her sin of adultery.


The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

The love between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, two young people from nobleVeronese houses, is doomed by the long-standing feud between their families.











Romeo and Juliet

Presents William Shakespeare's tragic drama of two star-crossed lovers.


Romeo and Juliet

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's drama of star-crossed lovers side-by-sidewith a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions ofeach character.


Pride and prejudice

In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtshipof a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.











The picture of Dorian Gray

An exquisitely beautiful young man in Victorian England retains his youthful andinnocent appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evilsoul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.


The picture of Dorian Gray & other fantastic tales

Presents the novel about a naive young man who is lured into a life of depravity, whichis reflected on his portrait while his face remains perfect; and includes three additionalstories by Oscar Wilde.


Oliver Twist

In nineteenth-century England, a young orphan runs away from a workhouse, iscaptured by a gang of thieves, and finally escapes.











Oedipus Rex

An English verse translation of the classic Greek tragedy about Oedipus, a king whoinadvertently kills his father and marries his mother.


The Odyssey : translated into English blank verse

Presents Homer's epic poem that describes the wanderings of Odysseus after the fallof Troy.


The Odyssey

Presents Homer's epic in which Greek hero Odysseus makes his long andtreacherous journey home from the Trojan War while his wife and son are forced toscheme to protect his throne.


Moby-Dick

Presents Herman Melville's classic novel "Moby Dick" about Captain Ahab'sobsession with finding and killing the great white whale that took off his leg.














A midsummer night's dream

Presents Shakespeare's play of fairies, magic, and love.



Presents the complete text of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream,"with a line-by-line translation of the play in simple language, a list of characters, and acommentary.



Presents the text of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a comedy in whichtwo sets of lovers, lost in the woods, get caught up in a dispute between the fairy kingand queen, along with a group of local thespians.












Presents the text of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a comedy in whichtwo sets of lovers, lost in the woods, get caught up in a dispute between the fairy kingand queen, along with a group of local thespians.


The metamorphosis and other stories

A collection of short fiction stories by Czechoslovakian author Franz Kafka, includingthe title work about Gregor Samsa, a man who wakes up one morning to discover hehas been transformed into an enormous insect.


The merry adventures of Robin Hood

Follows the adventures of Robin Hood, the good-humored outlaw and skilled archerwho, along with his followers, endeared himself to the poor through his generosity.











Merchant of Venice

Presents the text of Shakespeare's classic play about a creditor who demands apound of flesh in payment for a defaulted debt and a lover who must solve a riddle towin the woman of his dreams.


Macbeth

Presents William Shakespeare's tragic drama of a man who kills his king after hearingthe prophesies of three witches.


Macbeth

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" side-by-side with a plainEnglish translation, and includes character profiles, and commentary.











MacBeth

Includes a brief biography of William Shakespeare, thematic and structural analysis ofMacbeth, critical views, and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks,slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.


The tragedy of Macbeth

A Scottish nobleman and his power-hungry wife brutally overtake the throne afterarrogantly misinterpreting a prophecy, leading to their downfall.


Lord of the flies

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world isravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society butdescends into brutal anarchy.











William Golding's Lord of the flies

Contains nine critical essays on William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," and includes anintroduction by Harold Bloom, a chronology, and a bibliography.


The last of the Mohicans. [2]

Part two of six of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel written in comic book formatabout the adventures of the frontier scout Hawkeye in the early years of the Frenchand Indian War.


The last of the Mohicans. [1]

Part one of six of James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel written in comic book formatabout the adventures of the frontier scout Hawkeye in the early years of the Frenchand Indian War.











The jungle books

Presents the "Jungle Books," Rudyard Kipling's classic children's stories featuringsuch characters as Baloo the bear, Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, and Mowgli, the boyraised by wolves, and includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and the first Mowglistory, "In the Rukh," which was published before the "Jungle Books."


The jungle book

Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a young boy raised by animals in an Indian jungle,and other animal stories.


The jungle

Describes the conditions of the Chicago stockyards through the eyes of a youngimmigrant struggling in America.











Jane Eyre

Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, acceptsemployment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with hermelancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.


The Iliad : translated into English blank verse

Homer's epic poem recounts the events of the war between Greece and the city ofTroy.


The Iliad

Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans fromAgamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.











The hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonelymoors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.


The hound of the Baskervilles another adventure ofSherlock Holmes

Holmes and Watson investigate the tale of a hound that haunts a family living by thelonely moors of Devonshire.


The hound of the Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes is asked to investigate the tale of a hound that haunts the lonelymoors around the Baskervilles' ancestral home.












Hard times

In a northern English town, disciplinarian Thomas Gradgrind must reexamine hisutilitarian worldview when his daughter's upbringing and loveless marriage lead her toa crisis. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and Dickens's working notes forthe novel.


Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of theworld

The voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman carry him to such strange placesas Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled bygiants.


Gulliver's travels

The voyages of an Englishman carry him to a land of people six inches high, a land ofgiants, an island of sorcerers, and a land where horses are masters of human-likecreatures.












The Great Gatsby

Includes a brief biography of F. Scott Fitzgerld, thematicand structural analysis of TheGreat Gatsby, critical views,and more. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks,slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.


Great expectations

Contains the complete text of the 1860 novel about Pip, an orphan in VictorianEngland who is plucked from a life of poverty and informed he is to be educated andreared as a gentleman.


Frankenstein, or, The modern prometheus

Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of creating life and fashions an eight-footmonster, only to bring danger and destruction to the lives of those he loves.











Frankenstein

Presents an abridged, graphic novel version of the classic "Frankenstein," the tale of amonster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who seeks revenge onhis creator.


Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of hisown as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.


Fairy tales

A collection of traditional fairy tales retold by the Brothers Grimm.











Ethan Frome

Contains the story of Ethan Frome, a New England farmer who is married to ahypochondriac, but in love with his wife's lively cousin, Mattie.


Emma

Emma, a self-assured young lady in Regency England, is determined to arrange herlife and the lives of those around her into a pattern dictated by her romantic fancy.


Dracula

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, CountDracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.


The divine comedy [the vision of paradise, purgatory,and hell

An epic poem in which the poet describes his spiritual journey through Hell, Purgatoryand Paradise--guided first by the poet Virgil and then by his beloved Beatrice--whichresults in a purification of his religious faith.















David Copperfield

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, findsemployment in a wine factory, and becomes acquainted with a wide variety ofcharacters in the city streets.


Cyrano de Bergerac

Presents the classic play about an unattractive swordsman who falls in love with abeautiful woman, but courts her for a handsome but slow-witted suitor.


Crime and punishment

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker,reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers thefault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions.


The Count of Monte Cristo

Nineteen-year-old French sailor Edmond Dantes is unjustly imprisoned on his plannedwedding day, and after fourteen years of solitary confinement, a daring escape, hiddenriches on the island of Monte Cristo, and a new identity bring him closer to a reunionwith his love, Mercedes, and revenge upon his accusers.














A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernizeKing Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines,and inventing the printing press.


Common sense

A political treatise advocating the establishment of democracy and the overthrow ofmonarchy.


Canterbury tales and other poems

A collection of English translations of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer.


The call of the wild

Presents Jack London's classic in which a dog in the Klondike reverts to wildernesslife and becomes the leader of a pack of wolves.














Bulfinch's mythology the age of fables


Beowulf

Presents a translation of the Old English poem which tells the story of the heroBeowulf, slayer of the monster Grendel; also includes an introduction to the poem andexplanatory and textual notes.


Around the world in eighty days

Englishman Phileas Fogg races around the world on a daring wager in the seeminglyimpossible time of eighty days.


Anna Karenina

Presents Leo Tolstoy's classic novel in which the wife of an important governmentofficial in nineteenth-century Russia loses her family and social status when shechooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage; and includes anintroduction, a glossary of Russian words, and explanatory notes.














The age of innocence

Newland Archer, a young lawyer in upper-crust 1870's New York, becomes a victim ofsocial expectations and restrictions when he becomes infatuated with his docilefiancee's nonconformist cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.


The adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Contains twelve short stories that chronicle the adventures of fictional detectiveSherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson.


The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck, in flight from his murderous father, and Jim, in flight from slavery, pilot their raftdown the Mississippi River in search of freedom.











A walk to remember

When a twist of fate makes Jamie Sullivan his date at the homecoming dance, LandonCarter never dreamed they would fall in love, but as he comes to realize his truefeelings for Jamie, he learns of a terrible secret that will take his love away from himforever.


The Hunger Games

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen accidentally becomes a contender in the annualHunger Games, a grave competition hosted by the Capitol where young boys and girlsare pitted against one another in a televised fight to the death.


The caged graves

Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man shehas never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mysterysurrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt forRevolutionary-era gold.











The clockwork scarab

In 1889 London, young women are turning up dead, and Evaline Stoker, relative ofBram, and Mina Holmes, niece of Sherlock, are summoned to investigate the clue ofthe not-so-ancient Egyptian scarabs--but where does a time traveler fit in?


The statistical probability of love at first sight

Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after acinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them backtogether on a very momentous day.


The Testing

Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attendthe University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do notpass The Testing are disappearing.











Unbreakable

"Seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters discovers she is a member of an ancient secretsociety formed to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a wayout of his dimension and into ours. She joins the Legion on a mission to find a weaponthat can defeat the demon"--Publisher.


Steelheart

At age eight, David watched as his father was killed by an Epic, a human withsuperhuman powers, and now, ten years later, he joins the Reckoners--the onlypeople who are trying to kill the Epics and end their tyranny.


Far far away

"When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of JacobGrimm draws the interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two findthemselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown"--Publisher.


Soundless

"A fantasy adventure steeped in Chinese folklore about a teenage girl named Fei.When her village is suddenly in danger, Fei finds herself on a journey from the peak ofher jagged mountain village to the valley of Beiguo, where a startling truth and anunlikely romance will change her life forever"--Provided by publisher.














The mark of the dragonfly

Since her father's death in a factory in the Dragonfly territories, thirteen-year-old Piperhas eked out a living as a scrapper in Merrow Kingdom, but the arrival of a mysteriousgirl sends her on a dangerous journey to distant lands.


Allies & assassins

"Sixteen-year-old Jared inherits the throne of Archenfield after his older brother,Prince Anders, is murdered. He relies on the twelve officers of the court to advise himbut soon suspects one of them could be responsible for his brother's death and vowsto hunt down the killer, who may be after Jared as well"--Provided by publisher.







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Created by: Rebecca Hamby Wuthering Heights · Presents the text of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," a comedy in which two sets of lovers, lost in the woods, get caught