Testing his time machine for the first time, a Victorian scientist finds himself in the year 802,701 ad. Encountering a childlike people called the Eloi, who live in futuristic buildings and have no need of work, the Time Traveller...
Classic fiction
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Author:Wells, H. G., Paul, Frank R.Summary: - Author:James, HenrySummary:
A governess is hired to look after two orphaned children living at their absentee uncle’s grand estate and soon becomes convinced that her charges are controlled by the ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Famous for its rich...
- Author:Tolkien, J. R. R.Summary:
The original American full dramatization as broadcast on National Public Radio. The fellowship is broken; the quest to destroy the ring seems already shrouded in disaster. But as the evil lord Sauron readies his armies for war, Frodo...
- Author:Carle, EricSummary:
A collection of four books by Eric Carle. Includes "The very hungry caterpillar," "The grouchy ladybug," "The very busy spider," and "Walter the baker." Grades K-3. 1979.
- Author:Acland, Peregrine, Ford, Ford Madox, Busby, Brian, Johnson, Pauline, Gnarowski, Michael, Lemelin, Roger, Garner, Hugh, Stuewe, Paul, Slater, Patrick, Hemon, Louis, Blake, W.H., Lewis, Wyndham, Pero, AllanSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions by noted experts. This bundle contains some of the greatest Canadian fiction, including influential literature...
- Author:Garner, Hugh, Stuewe, Paul, Reaney, James, Filewod, Alan, Skelton, Robin, Rhenisch, Harold, Warkentin, Germaine, Symons, Scott, Elson, ChristopherSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary...
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
Humanity's worst fears come true in this grand science fiction adventure. Through telescopes fixed on faraway planets, scientists begin noticing strange events on the surface of Mars. Soon after, a mysterious object lands in the middle...
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Presents the aged Reverend Harding as warden of the almshouse at Barchester providing charity for the town's neediest, and his life.
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop...
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
In his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California's back roads,...
- Author:Hall, RadclyffeSummary:
Stephen Gordon is an ideal child of aristocratic parents - a fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women...
- Author:Grahame, KennethSummary:
A charming mole and an impulsive toad get into trouble in the English countryside. Adventures include stealing a car, escaping from prison and running into a god.
- Author:Steinbeck, JohnSummary:
Steinbeck's novel features Ethan Allen Hawley, formerly of the New England aristocracy but now a humble grocery clerk. Inspiring little but resentment in his wife and daughters, Ethan nevertheless does his utmost to live an honest life...
- Author:Baum, L. FrankSummary:
Spoiler alert: there are no songs, and the slippers are silver. Luckily, there’s still a Yellow Brick Road and flying monkeys. Colorful characters, frightening villains and amazing landscapes make this beloved childhood classic a treat...
- Author:Gilman, Charlotte PerkinsSummary:
Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of...
- Author:Neale Hurston, ZoraSummary:
“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith
One of the... - Author:Hamilton, CicelySummary:
When war breaks out in Europe - modern, aerial war whose tactics include displacing entire populations - British civilization collapses overnight. The ironically named Theodore Savage, an educated and idle civil servant, must learn to...
- Author:Zola, ÉmileSummary:
In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille. The numbing tedium of her life is suddenly shattered when she embarks on a turbulent affair...
- Author:Carroll, LewisSummary:
Lewis Carroll's immortal Alice returns for another adventure, this time by stepping through an enchanted mirror. On the other side she encounters a world of whimsy and wildness. Talking flowers, characters ripped from nursery rhymes and...
- Author:Nietzsche, FrederichSummary:
In Nietzsche’s classic philosophical novel, the prophet Zarathustra has come down from the mountains to offer his wisdom and philosophy to the world. Impress all your friends by actually knowing the context for some of Nietzsche’s most...
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