Christmas comes but once a year so celebrate it in style with A Christmas Treasury,
a collection of classic stories and poems that commemorate the yuletide season. Abundantly illustrated with the work of Arthur Rackham, Mary Cowles Clark, Alice Ercle ...
Aesop's Illustrated Fables features more than 400 fables, beautifully illustrated with engravings and color plates
by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have become part of our common ...
Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck
Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life ...
Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale
of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse ...
Horror hides behind an attractive face in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's tale
of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted portrait ...
Literary marvels and wonders await you in Classic Fantasy Stories, an anthology of the best
short fantasy fiction published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book’s thirty selections run the gamut from the humorous fantasy of Edgar Allan ...
This cornucopia of thrills and chills features 25 of the finest English-language tales of the
uncanny and macabre. In addition to works by such stellar authors as Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mary ...
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The haunting poems
of Edgar Allan Poe come to life in this comprehensive volume. Collected here are such American classics as The Rave, Annabel Lee, and The Bells. ...