The sun has died, as have the stars. Not a solitary light shines in the heavens. The days of ligh...

HEIDI is a delightful story for children of life in the Alps, one of many tales written by the Sw...

I glanced up. The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was stari...

That blow was the last of the battle. Once out upon the road, Black Dog, in spite of his wound, s...

'The Happy Prince' In a town where a lot of poor people suffer, a swallow who was left behind aft...

The creature dodged back, and the blow that would have crushed its skull grazed a hairbreadth fro...

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula a...

We arrived at last at a wide cavern with an arched domelike roof. An aperture in the midst let in...

The tempest had raged for six days, and on the seventh seemed to increase. The ship had been so f...

Here Sir Winston S. Churchill -- the same man who would go on to lead the free world through its ...

The year is 2137. Two hundred years ago -- in our time, more or less -- Eurasia fought a war to e...

Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years. At first it was suppressed by one ...

Tangier is possibly the most cosmopolitan city in the world. In native costume you'll see Berber ...

This is the book that created thunderstorms of antipathy so intense that Hardy just didn't want t...

The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is m...

From 'White and Yellow': San Francisco Bay is so large that often its storms are more disastrous ...

As vacation time approached, Dick and Doc had become as hard as nails and as active as a couple o...

'Did you ever wonder at the lonely life the bird in a cuckoo clock has to lead --' wrote the edit...

If you had to give your life so that you could live it over again -- would you? Could you? Should...

'Under the Greenwood Tree' (1872) preceded 'The Return of the Native' and 'Far from the Madding C...

'The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the sp...

The world has not yet forgotten the intensity of the feeling which existed when old Mr. Scarborou...

The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that ob...

Also included in this volume are 'A Haunted Island,' 'A Case of Eavesdropping,' 'Keeping His Prom...

Whitefoot had spent the winter in Farmer Brown's sugar-house. He had forgotten the meaning of fea...

Billy Byrne was a product of the streets and alleys of Chicago's great West Side. From Halsted to...

Billy Byrne squared his broad shoulders and filled his deep lungs with the familiar medium which ...

We arrived at last at a wide cavern with an arched domelike roof. An aperture in the midst let in...

Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote this tale of confused identity and royal intrigue in 1914 and 1915, as...

These are the tales of Mowgli, the lost boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India, brought up ...

In addition to his great 'Wessex Novels,' Thomas Hardy wrote 'Wessex Tales' (1896), a collection ...

The imperial road to Italy goes from Munich across the Tyrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Vero...

KIM is an utterly enchanting tale of personal growth, filial love, and the joy of life -- set in ...

While in search of enemy subs, Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine off the Florida coast. He t...

When adventurer Bowen Tyler was taken captive aboard an enemy submarine, he never dreamed that hi...

The Prior Aymer had taken the opportunity afforded him, of changing his riding robe for one of ye...

The setting for The Lost World is believed to have been inspired by reports of Doyle's good frien...

A sailor narrates the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby ...

Because there were few adults in the crowd, and Colonel 'Biff' Hawton stood over six feet tall, h...

Written in 1906, BEFORE ADAM is a bit of a departure from London's other novels. Still an adventu...

For the twenty-second time since the great wave had washed him from the steamer's deck and hurled...

In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist po...

Anna, miserable in a loveless marriage, succumbs to the desire for the dashing Vronsky. That sort...

A short story by Kurt Vonnegut originally written in 1953. It was first published in Galaxy Scien...

For an instant you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of ...

Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionis...

Dorian Gray doesn't look a day over twenty-two. Once upon a time, Dorian really was young, handso...

It is a story about two brothers: 'Colonel Bohun, a drunkard and playboy, and Reverend Bohun, cur...