Originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation and wildly acclaimed on it's...
When a troubled schoolboy forges a cash coupon to pay off a debt, his deed starts off a chain reaction of tragedies that effects the lives of dozens, leading to thefts,...
"They seek him here... they seek him there..."It is the bloody height of the French Revolution. Men, women and children are put to death under the blade of the remorseless...
This rip-roaring, 19th century adventure yarn by Anthony Hope tells us the adventure of Rudolph Rassendyll, who, thanks to his bearing an uncanny likeness to his distant relative...
"By the table, in a wooden arm-chair, the master of the house was seated all in a heap, with his head sunk upon his left shoulder, and that ghastly, inscrutable smile upon his...
In this groundbreaking tale by H. G. Wells, a Victorian-era time traveller explores a distant and dystopian future populated by fragile Eloi and bestial Morlocks...
The Dead Alive, also called John Jago's Ghost, is a novella written in 1874 by the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins, and is based on the Boorn...
Washington Irvings collected Christmas tales, telling of the Author and his holiday in a rustic country seat, Surrounded by all the good cheer and tradition the Geogian times can...
Opening with the poem that made Poe a household name overnight, this collection of his short works includes the narrative poem "The Raven", the short story "The Fall of the House...
A volume of selected stories from Washington Irving's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Praised by Walter Scott and Lord Byron for its prose, this collection consists of...