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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a famous children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, was originally published in 1900. I...

When Frankenstein, a young idealist Genevan student of natural philosophy at the University of Ingolstadt, stumbled into the secret of infusing lif...

The Wind in the Willows is a book of linked animal tales that began as a series of bedtime stories and was published in 1908. It is beautifully wri...

Dracula, published in 1897, is the most famous of all tales of vampirism. Presented in diaries, letters and news items, this story of the bloodsuck...

The Secret Garden is one of the most delightful and enduring classics of children’s literature, which has remained a firm favorite with children th...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of thirteen very interesting Sherlock Holmes stories that were published in 1903-04 in the Strand Mag...

Lewis Carroll's masterpieces, Alice's adventures in Wonderland and its sequel through the looking glass, mark an epoch in the history of dream lite...

Rated among the great works of American fiction, Twain’s classics paint an unforgettable picture of Mississippi frontier life, and combine picaresq...

The book contains 41 stories written by Flora Annie Steel and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The stories are very interesting to read and engage th...

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, mark Twain classic The adventures of Tom Sawyer paints an unforgettable picture of Missis...

The tale of 'Cinderella' is told wherever stories are still read aloud and everyone is familiar with 'Rapunzel' and 'The Golden Goose', but who has...

Collection of (1) Pride and Prejudice: "In the delightful social comedy of Pride and Prejudice (1813) Jane Austen delicately handles the problem of...

A great novelist, a learned and wise critic, and a charming short-story writer—can these three reside in a single person? Yes, but, of course, in a...

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic and moral fantasy novel by Oscar Wilde. This is the only novel he wrote and published in 1891 after heavy ed...

Collection of (1) Robinson Crusoe: "Published in 1719, Robinson Crusoe has remained one of the best-known and most read of English novels. It gaine...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

Collection of (1) Oliver Twist : The only token of identity left by Dicken's dying mother to Oliver Twist – born in the workhouse, and orphaned at ...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth published in 1864 in French as Voyage au centre de la Terre is the second book in Verne's popular science-fictio...

Rated among the most excellent works of American fiction, Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn paints an unforgettable picture o...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...