This swashbuckling adventure novel is a tale of pirates, maps, and treasure. Featuring glorious illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.This coming-of-age story follows Jim Hawkins as he sets off on a dangerous quest to retrieve buried treasure. Read of perilous journeys on high seas, murder plots, and mutiny in this action-packed tale by Robert Louis Stevenson. First published in 1911, this illustrated edition of Treasure Island breathes new life into the classic ad...

The White Company, with Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth, is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom of Castile. The climax of the book occurs before the Battle of Nájera.The "White Company" of the title is a free company of archers, led by one of th...

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...

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 ...

Drawing from the rich and varied lore surrounding the beloved outlaw, this spirited reworking of Robin Hood's many adventures is a vibrant introduction to Friar Tuck, Little John, Maid Marian, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and, of course, Robin Hood, the hero whose generosity and sense of justice continue to intrigue readers today as much as they did eight hundred years ago. Unlike many other books on Robin Hood, this version traces our hero from young boy to his death.This edition of...

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 ...

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...

Arizona Nights relates tales of Southwestern adventures experienced by gold prospectors, cattle ranchers and others trying to make their way through the 19th century wild west. Stewart Edward White spent time as a cowboy, particularly during cattle round-up times. At night while sitting around the campfire, it was common for cowboys to tell stories and relate their own experiences, perhaps embellished. It is likely that this is the source of White's novel.S...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Treasure Island includes:• All 16 full-color paintings by N.C. Wyeth for the 1911 edition• Another 44 black & white illustrations by Louis Rhead for his 1915 edition• The essay "My First Book" by Robert Louis Stevenson, on the writing of his classic• A glossary of nautical terms and historical slang• A helpful introduction, author bio, and bibliographyRobert ...

“Robots and exowombs and hemp, oh my!”Welcome to 2045. Automation has freed humanity from the drudgery and limitations of blue-collar labor. For twenty years, a remarkable group of female bureaucrats has overseen an ambitious construction program that is spreading equity, prosperity, and peace worldwide.But Detective Ashley Westgard of the Jacksonville Police Corps senses that beneath all the glimmer and shine, a new malaise has taken root in socie...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.America, 2028. The War for Equity has begun! A new bureaucracy called the Historical Reparations Administration oversees enforcement of restitution for colonialism and slavery.This is the story of everyday people caught in the crossfire between idealism and technology.Supercomputers scan old documents while drones monitor both Debtors and Beneficiaries from coast to coast. Reality TV shows and religious cults help the na...