Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Book Description: This is one of Jane Austen's most popular novels. It portrays life in the genteel rural society of the day, and tells of the initial misunderstandings and later mutual enlightenment between Elizabeth Bennet and the haughty Darcy.
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte Book Description: Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte were English novelists and poets. As children in a Yorkshire parsonage, the sisters created an imaginary literary world. In 1846 they published a collection of their poems, and in 1847 Anne's novel Agnes Grey, Emily's Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte's Jane Eyre all appeared.
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Hound of the BaskervillesSir Arthur Conan Doyle Book Description: "Elementary, my dear Watson!" If you haven't read at least one of this famous Knighted British author's many mysteries, this is the one to start with. It is considered by some to be his best work in the Sherlock Holmes series.
Category: Classic, Novels, Adventure Book Title: Last of the Mohicans James Fenimore Cooper Book Description: Written in 1826, Last of the Mohicans is an adventure set in the forests of North America during the Seven Years War (1756-1763) between England and France.
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Book Description: Robert Louis Stephenson (1850-1894)
This story turned out to be one of his most popular works, and helped him and his wife get out of debt and, for the first time, live in comfort.
Category: Classic Book Title: Is Shakespeare Dead? Author: Mark Twain Book Description: Investigating whether Shakespeare really did write all those plays, Mark Twain comes to some surprising conclusions!
This ebook was compiled for this site from the autobiography of Mark Twain. In this book he goes into the FACTS as they are documented and known about regarding the life and works of Shakespeare. Not supposition,
Category: Classic, Novels Book Title: King Solomon's Mines Sir H. Rider Haggard Book Description: This is probably Sir H. Rider Haggard's most famous novel. He was one of the first pseudo modern adventure writers, and his stories, are no doubt, the model for such as Raider's of the Lost Ark (i.e., the Indiana Jones series).
Category: Classic Book Title: Othello: A Study Commentary Book Description: Are you studying or teaching Shakespeare's Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet or King Lear?
Is Jane Austen's Persuasion on your exam texts list?
Is Poetry and Prose Commentary an important part of your literature studies course?
Category: Classic, History, Travel Book Title: Travels in Arabia Author: ohann Ludwig Burckhardt (aka John Lewis) Book Description: First published in 1829
One of the first narratives by a European to travel in the lands of Arabia. This edition features the original two volume text by the Swiss explorer, enhanced with hyperlinks and biographical notes, and illustrated with period prints and maps of Arabia.
