The story is about the literary world of late-Victorian London that Gissing inhabited, and its title, New Grub Street, alludes to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synonymous with the "hack writing" that pervades Gissing's novel; Grub Street itself was no longer extant when Gissing was writing. The novel contrasts Edwin Reardon, a congenitally uncommercial but talented writer, against Jasper Milvain, a selfish and unscrupulous hack who rejects artistic endeav...

Edward Prendick is shipwrecked in the Pacific. Rescued by Doctor Moreau's assistant he is taken to the doctor's island home where he discovers the doctor has been experimenting on the animal inhabitants of the island, creating bizarre proto-humans...

Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 2 contains the following 10 Masterpieces :A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James JoyceAlice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis CarrollAnna Karenina - Leo TolstoyGreat Expectations - Charles DickensGulliver's Travels - Jonathan SwiftHeart of Darkness - Joseph ConradMiddlemarch - George EliotThe Brot...

One of the most influential novels of the nineteenth century, Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment tells the tragic story of Raskolnikov—a talented former student whose warped philosophical outlook drives him to commit murder. Surprised by his sense of guilt and terrified of the consequences of his actions, Raskolnikov wanders through the slums of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg trying to escape the ever-suspicious Porfiry, the official investigating the crime.

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 1 contains the following 10 Masterpieces :Crime and Punishment - Fyodor DostoyevskyDon Quixote - Miguel de CervantesHamlet - William ShakespeareMadame Bovary - Gustave FlaubertMoby-Dick - Herman MelvillePride and Prejudice - Jane AustenThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark TwainThe Divine Comedy - ...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 3 contains the following 10 Masterpieces :Candide - VoltaireDavid Copperfield - Charles DickensEmma - Jane AustenFrankenstein - Mary ShelleyJane Eyre - Charlotte BrontëRobinson Crusoe - Daniel DefoeThe Portrait of a Lady - Henry JamesThe Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel HawthorneThe Tempest -...

The Greatest Books of All Time Vol. 6 contains the following 10 Masterpieces :Dracula - Bram StokerKim - Rudyard KiplingNew Grub Street - George GissingSister Carrie - Theodore DreiserThe Age of Innocence - Edith WhartonThe Golden Bowl - Henry JamesThe Red Badge of Courage - Stephen CraneThe Sign of the Four - Arthur Conan Doyle

Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to children, but presenting lessons of virtue and resilience in the face of adversity for mature readers as well. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The Little Mermaid," "The Nightingale," "The Snow Queen," "The Ugly Duckling," and "Thumbelina." His stories have inspired ballets, pl...

Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales (German: Grimms Märchen).

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in t...

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Begining in the American Civil War, as famine and death ravage the city of Richmond, Virginia, five northern POWs decide to escape in a rather unusual way – by hijacking a balloon! This is only the beginning of their adventures...