Classics Literature Collection

Legends tell of an unknown, hidden country where King Solomon's treasure is secreted. Many have searched for Solomon's diamonds and have never returned from their mysterious journey. Sir Henry Curtis' brother was lost on just such an adventure. Now, with a secret map, a regal guide, and the aid of Allan Quatermain, the renowned safari hunter, a group of three Englishmen journey to a secret land of witch doctors, warriors, and ancient mysteries.

Traveling schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, doesn't believe the rumors about witches and spirits haunting the idyllic village of Sleepy Hollow. The townsfolk, led by the rich Van Tassel family, are friendly and welcoming to strangers. On Halloween night, Ichabod is caught in the clutches of a frightening specter. But the Headless Horseman is not the devil he has been led to believe, and Ichabod finds himself falling for the lonely spirit.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs, interned teenagers...

Jason and the Golden Fleece is one of the finest tales of Ancient Greece, an epic journey of adventure and trial standing beside similar stories of Perseus, Theseus and the Labours of Heracles. The finest classic account comes from Apollonius of Rhodes, the Greek poet of the 3rd century BCE and librarian at Alexandria. Though less well-known than Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, and much shorter, it is an epic poem which is both exciting and moving, with remarkably vivid portraits of the main characters, Jason and Medea.

This audiobook contains 17 short stories inspired from famous classic fairy tales. In addition to 17 classic tales, you’ll get another three bonus stories from Aesop’s Fables book.

Step into the captivating world of The Brothers Grimm. This charming collection features more than 60 of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s most beloved and enduring stories, including Little Red Riding Hood, The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin, Briar Rose, Rapunzel, Tom Thumb, Hansel & Gretel, The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was, and more. Whether you grew up with these stories or are discovering them for the first time, the Grimm Fairy Tale Collection delivers a perfect blend of magical adventures, romantic fantasies, and grizzly cautionary tales.

Educated in Lebanon, United States, and France, Gibran was influenced by the European modernists of the late 19th century, but even more by Francis Marrash, who introduced poetic prose and prose poetry in the Arab world. Gibran's style of writing and ideas he wrote about are believed to have been greatly influenced by Marrash, particularly the concept of universal love.

J.D. Salinger followed up his enormously popular The Catcher in the Rye with a collection of nine stories that were equally powerful and mysterious. With this new guide, you will have an even greater understanding of these challenging stories, avoid confusion, and unravel the mysteries Salinger included in the text.

A collection of recordings written and read by one of the greatest literary and cultural figures of the 20th. The collection is accompanied by a special 64 page booklet containing the poems. Upon the release of his first published work, Howl and Other Poems (1956), Allen Ginsberg became the...

Falstaff is both a comic and tragic central protagonist in Shakespeare's three Henry plays. He is companion to Prince Hal (the future Henry V), who loves him, goads him, teases him, indulges his vast appetites, and commits all sorts of mischief with him. Award-winning author and esteemed professor Harold Bloom examines Falstaff with the deepest compassion and sympathy and also with unerring wisdom. He uses the relationship between Falstaff and Hal to explore the devastation of severed bonds and the heartbreak of betrayal.

A spectacular collection of classic ghost stories from some of the masters of spooky fiction. 'On the Brighton Road' by Richard Middleton; 'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain; 'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray; 'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole; 'Rose Rose' by Barry Pain; 'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton; 'The Bus Conductor' by E. F. Benson; 'The Tarn' by Hugh Walpole; 'The Diary of Mr. Poynter' by M. R. James.

Originally meant to be heard rather than read, this great epic returns to the oral form for today's listeners.

Man has always wanted to travel into the unknown and encounter what he has not, and perhaps cannot, experience in the real world. The early 20th century witnessed an explosion of science fiction literature. Authors studied the wonders of scientific and technological progress and imagined worlds that had developed even greater advances. Jules Vernes' and H.G. Wells' fantastic tales well whetted the public's appetite for adventure tales.

All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.

"Le bouquiniste Mendel" : Dans la Vienne du début du siècle, il n'est pas un bibliophile qui ne connaisse Jakob Mendel, catalogue vivant de l'ensemble du savoir imprimé. Monomaniaque à la mémoire prodigieuse, affreusement peu doué en affaires, il est affligé d'une boulimie bibliographique qui fait de lui un homme précieux. Perpétuellement installé à la table d'un café du vieux Vienne dont il a fait son quartier général, il délivre ses expertises érudites à tous les amateurs ou spécialistes qui ont le bon sens de venir le consulter.

Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of a veteran’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean. “A century since its publication in the collection In Our Time, “Big Two-Hearted River” has helped shape language and...

Kate Chopin’s novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a precursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. The upper-class Creole society of New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the 19th century is brought to audio in a stirring performance by Academy Award-winning actress Kim Basinger.

A collection of ten classic short stories including "Lost Hearts", "Miss Brill", "The Yellow Paint", "An Encounter", and "The Phantom Coach".

This Audiobook contains the following works :. - The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald Track 1-9. - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Track 10-51. - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Track 52-92. - Ben-Hur - A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace Track 93-174. - Middlemarch by George Eliot Track 175-262. - Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Track 263- 390. - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Track 391-433. - Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Track 434-480. - The Iliad by Homer Track 481-504. - The Odyssey by Homer Track 505-528.

This is the first line in this tale of a man uprooted and thrust into the unfamiliar and dangerous world of the sealing sailor. Humphrey Van Weyden, a San Francisco sophisticate and an intellectual, finds himself the captive voyager aboard The Ghost, captained by the brutal and barbaric Wolf Larsen. Van Weyden’s rights disappear as the coast of California vanishes over the horizon.