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When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

In 1872 Phileas Fogg wins a bet by traveling around the world in seventy-nine days, twenty-three hours, and fifty-seven minutes.

Presents a facsimile printing of the first American edition of Mark Twain's classic novel, in which Huck, the son of the town drunk, and Jim, an escaped slave, make a break for freedom down the vast Mississippi River on a raft; and includes an introduction by novelist Toni Morrison and essays on the illustrations.

In 1815 Edmond Dant?s, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl?re, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc?e Merc?d?s.

"The second in the Leatherstocking tales "presents Chingachgook and his son Uncas as the last of the Iroquis aristocracy.