The Boys King Arthur (1880) by the American poet Sidney Lanier is a re-working of the original Sir Thomas Malory's "History of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table".The book interprets existing French and English stories about these figures, with some of Malory's own original material (the Gareth story). First published in 1485 by William Caxton, Le Morte d'Arthur is perhaps the best-known work of English-language Arthurian literature today. Many modern Arthurian writers ...

Before Andrew and Jamie, there was N. C. Wyeth. The star student of Howard Pyle's Brandywine School, Newell Convers Wyeth (1882–1945) created more than 3,000 illustrations in the course of his career. This original full-color collection focuses on his most popular illustrations, featuring early works that date from 1910-30. More than 100 iconic images include scenes from The Last of the Mohicans, The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe, Rip Van Winkle, The Boy's King Arthu...

Gathering The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers, and The Prairie, the complete Leatherstocking Tales trace Natty Bumppo's life across the shifting frontier, from youthful woodsman to aged wanderer. Cooper's prose blends romance, adventure, moral reflection, and landscape description, helping define the American historical novel. Written amid early national debates over wilderness, settlement, and identity, the series dramatizes the costs of expansion while ...

Daniel Defoe's 'The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe' is a timeless classic that follows the journey of a shipwrecked man on a deserted island. The book is written in a realistic and detailed style, reflecting the author's journalistic background. Defoe's depiction of Crusoe's survival skills and psychological development resonates with readers as they witness his transformation from a castaway to a self-sufficient explorer. The inclusion of illustrations in this complete edition enriches the...

Kate Douglas Wiggin – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories gathers the full range of a writer central to American domestic fiction, children's literature, and late nineteenth-century regional realism. From the enduring charm of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to tales of travel, village life, courtship, moral education, and family feeling, the collection reveals Wiggin's graceful prose, comic timing, and sentimental yet observant imagination. Her work belongs to a literary contex...

Rip Van Winkle (1912) is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, best known his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist.Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon. Although the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains, Irving later admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catski...

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. This first edition credited the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. It was published under the considerably longer original title The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Isl...

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The illustrations were made by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) and published in 1916.It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance. The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws in Tunstall Forest organized by Ellis...

This illustrated ultimate collection gathers nineteen of Emerson Hough's Western classics, adventure novels, historical works, poems, and children's tales, presenting the breadth of a writer central to the literature of the American frontier. Hough's fiction blends romance, documentary observation, and vigorous narrative movement, often dramatizing migration, wilderness trial, national expansion, and the moral ambiguities of conquest. Read within the context of late nineteenth- and early t...

Robin Hood and His Adventuresby Paul Creswick Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth"Robin Hood is a figure in archetypal English folk tales, whose story goes back to medieval times. In popular culture he is painted as a man known for robbing the rich to provide for the poor and fighting against injustice and tyranny. His band consists of "seven score" group of fellow outlawed yeomen – called his "Merry Men". He has been the subject of numerous movies, television series, books, comics ...

The Ultimate Adventure Collection gathers the restless energies of Daniel Defoe's prose: the circumstantial realism of his novels, the maritime intrigue associated with pirate history, and the martial vigor of his military lives. Across shipwrecks, campaigns, criminal underworlds, and colonial frontiers, Defoe's documentary style transforms adventure into moral and economic inquiry. Written in the emerging context of the eighteenth-century English novel, these works blur journalism, biogra...

The Complete Novels of Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) gathers the full range of Doyle's long-form fiction, from the analytic brilliance of Sherlock Holmes to historical romances, imperial adventures, and speculative works that helped shape popular modern genres. Written in lucid, energetic prose, these novels combine Victorian narrative confidence with a keen interest in detection, science, empire, chivalry, and moral testing. The illustrations enrich the period atmosphere, recalling the...