Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world’s greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with...
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn think they are clever characters. When Tom and Huck witness a murder, however, they find themselves hurled into a series of adventures that lead them to some...
Black Beauty grows up in the fields and meadows of Victorian England. His peaceful youth fades away as he faces human cruelty and mistreatment in a world that cares little for the happiness of...
One of the most beloved animal characters of all time comes to life in Black Beauty. Although originally dismissed as a trite children’s novel because it is written in the voice of a horse, the...
If any single novel of Kurt Vonnegut's can represent his unique voice and freewheeling imagination, it is probably the wildly funny and provocative Cat's Cradle, published in 1963. Though it might not...
On a trip to Transylvania, Jonathan Harker stays at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula. When strange things start to happen, and the count escapes to London, Harker realizes that he and his...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen is one of the greatest English novelists and Emma is, for many readers, her finest achievement. It is a social comedy, with finely...
In 1897 Twain embarked on a cruise that took him to the South Pacific, New Zealand, Australia, India and South Africa. Here he makes salient observations on the people and cultures encountered on his...
The young scientist Victor Frankenstein has created something amazing and horrible at the same time -- a living being out of dead flesh and bone. His creation, however, turns out to be a monster!...
The suspense and the excitement are so intoxicating in Paul Brickhill's 1950 novel The Great Escape that it is easy to forget what a frightening, life-and-death struggle its characters have undertaken....
