简介:The fourth and last work chronologically in Cooper's Leather-stocking Tales, Pioneers is a historical novel that follows the later life of Natty Bumppo. Already introduced by the previous novels as the archetypal American frontiersman and f...
简介:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary and reader's notes to help the modern reader fully appreciate London's masterful weaving of science, philosophy, and the storyteller's art. This gripping story follows the...
简介:When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suit...
简介:Wrecked alone on an unknown shore, Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones, scion of an effetely intellectual Boston family, finds himself terrified and physically unfit. A series of adventures leads him to the cave of a beautiful girl, Nadara, who is as...
简介:Set in the Caucasus between the Black and Caspian Seas, The Centaur centres on Terence O'Malley, a journalist of mystical temperament who is studying the peoples of the area. O'Malley, at odds with the pace and materialism of the modern wor...
简介:The Great God Pan is a novella written by Arthur Machen. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent style and sexual content, although it has since garnered a reputation as a classi...
简介:The First Men in the Moon is a 1901 scientific romance novel by the British author H. G. Wells. The novel tells the story of a journey to the moon undertaken by the two protagonists, the impoverished businessman Mr Bedford and the brilliant...