Emily Brontë's only novel, this tale portrays Catherine and Heathcliff, their all-encompassing love for one another, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them both, leading Heathcliff to shun and abuse society. First published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, Wuthering Heights is considered to be a classic of English literature.
The world's best-known vampire story begins by following a naive young Englishman as he visits Transylvania to meet a client, the mysterious Count Dracula. Upon revealing his true nature, Dracula boards a ship for England, where chilling and gruesome disasters begin to befall the people of London...
Introduction by Arthur B. ReeveThe Apparition of Mrs. VealCanon Alberic's Scrap-BookThe Haunted and the HauntersThe Silent WomanBansheesThe Man Who Went Too FarThe Woman's Ghost StoryThe Phantom RickshawThe Rival GhostsThe Damned ThingThe IntervalDey Ain't No GhostsSome Real American Ghosts
On an expedition to Antarctica, Professor William Dyer and his colleagues discover the remains of ancient half-vegetable, half-animal life-forms.
A crooked pitcher named Williams (a lefty) is confronted by young ball player looking for a break.
"Not many miles from Philadelphia, in a beautifully wooded and hilly country, may be seen a large rambling mansion, whose substantial walls show that it was built at a time when more attention was paid to the durability of dwellings than at present.
“Get back, Jim. It’s over your head.”
There is not a dull page in this book. It is chiefly a story of athletics, but it is also a fine study of boy and girl life.
In this volume the scene is shifted to the river, and Fred and his chums show how they can handle the oars. There are many other adventures, all dear to the hearts of boys.
Allen Chapman was one of the many pseudonyms used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate to publish popular kids books.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: English school life; Juvenile Fiction / General;
Garrison's Finish : a romance of the race course is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by W. B. M. (William Blair Morton) Ferguson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition.
The Rover Boys, or The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a popular juvenile series authored by Arthur M. Winfield, a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer, and published by Stratemeyer Syndicate.
The author's hilarious attempt at weight-loss is chronicled in detail.
"This series of stories, based on the actual doings of High School boys, teems with incidents in athletics and school-boy fun. The real Americanism of Dick Prescott and his chums will excite the admiration of every reader."
Genial humor, sound sense and intimate knowledge of sport are here given concrete form.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
"The young hero of this story is carried through preparatory school and the freshman year at Harvard. The story closes with an account of the Harvard-Yale game."
