At Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, young Sara Crewe enjoys the friendship of
her classmates and the staff—much to stern Miss Minchin's disdain. When Sara is unexpectedly impoverished, she is forced to become a servant under Miss Minchin's ...
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 ...
Brother and sister Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert look forward to meeting the young orphan boy
whom they hope to give a good life to at their Avonlea farm, Green Gables. When they are accidentally sent Anne Shirley instead, they make ...
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 ...
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through
Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ...
Shipwrecked on an uncharted island, the Swiss Family Robinson--mother, father, and four young boys--make the
most of their predicament, adapting to the island and turning the absence of civilization to their advantage. Through persevereance, hard work, and self-reliance, they become ...
Love Poems celebrates love in its many forms with ninety-seven poems that span six centuries,
from the work of Dante to the poetry of William Butler Yeats. It includes selections from many of the most celebrated poets in world literature, ...
These three tales are drawn from George W. Cable’s youth in New Orleans. Madame Delphine
is filled with the exoticism of Creole culture and tells the story of an elderly woman and her attempt to arrange an advantageous marriage for ...