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In early nineteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters; and includes a short essay comparing Austen's Elizabeth and Mr.

Young Prince Edward and Tom Canty, a pauper boy who looks just like the royal youth, both learn something about "pleasures and palaces" when they accidentally switch places in sixteenth-century England.

Alexandra came from a hardy pioneer clan. Over the protests of her traditionally minded brothers, their dying father wills her, not them, the family homestead.

A prominent New England family suffering under a curse is plagued by greed, vengeful acts, and violent death.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

Includes twenty-five stories including the Klondike stories, and other stories spanning American author Jack London's career.

The fact of How Dr. Watson met Sherlock Holmes and the details of some of their most fascinating cases unfold dramatically in these stories that are full of suspense, excitement and mystery.

The adventures of sixteen-year-old David Balfour, an orphan, who after being kidnapped by his villainous uncle manages to escape and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

The story of an orphaned son of an Irish soldier in India provides a powerful look at the country of India and the strong differences that exist between East and West.

Conway, one of four people whose plane crashed while they were fleeing a civil war in a foreign land, is rescued along with the rest of his group by a mysterious Chinese man who takes them to safety in Shangri-la, a land of peace and beauty where they are offered near immortality on the condition that they never leave.

Contains the memoirs of the author as he traveled across the American West and down to Hawaii and along the way he encounters Mormons, the desperadoes of the Great Plains, and the native Hawaiian peoples.

The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth.