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In this epic series, a British royal couple's son is orphaned on the coast of Africa, where he is raised by the great apes of the jungle. Able to walk between two worlds, he becomes not just Lord Greystoke but Tarzan of the Apes. In this beautiful hardcover Collectible Edition, you will find the first...

Florence, only 13, knows that of her Aunt Julia’s many suitors, the best is the ungainly Noble Dill. Although he is an outcast, the innocent Florence sees that he is the only one without unfortunate oddities. This book is a laugh, as the young protagonist causes all sorts of trouble for Aunt Julia.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Oregon Trail offers a critical view of the Conestoga wagon generation. The result of the notes Parkman took along the newly-developed roads to the West, the book put an end to the sentimentalized portrait of pioneer...

In this carefully detailed analysis of George Eliot’s life, Cooke  gives special  attention to early influences in her life on her work as novelist and poet:  her childhood, her education, her mother’s death, her changing religious beliefs, contemporary free-thinkers she knew, and the works of such writers as Lamb, Kant, Locke, Emerson, and Heine.

Published in 1911, Dreiser's bittersweet novel follows his long-suffering protagonist, Jennie Gerhardt, in her efforts to find love and forge a meaningful life. This proves to be difficult in a society quick to judge poverty as a moral failing, a theme that remains relevant today, nearly a century after it was written.

The Emperor Napoleon fondly said of Etienne Gerard "that if he has the thickest head he has also the stoutest heart in my army." This description accurately captures the self-described hero of eighteen gem-like short stories produced by Arthur Conan Doyle. Brigadier Gerard, a bombastic, heroic gascon...

This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you’re looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you’re feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton,...

Napoleon has been called a giant for the ages, and his influence resonates to this day not only in the field of military endeavor but also in law and governance. His military maxims, captured here in Napoleon's Art of War, are timeless principles applicable to many aspects of life. To contextualize each of the seventy-eight pithy maxims, General Burnod provides brief explanatory expositions.

Subtitled “A Book for Free Spirits,” Human, All Too Human rejects the conventional wisdom of the day for a more enlightened pursuit of reason.  No longer influenced by the romanticism of Wagner and Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche turns to the skepticism and positivism that would define his philosophy...

As indispensable today as it was when first published in 1879, Henry James’s critical biography of his predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, has achieved canonical status among students of American literature. Hawthorne is an examination of one great American writer’s life and work by another.

In this collection of essays, published in 1901, Brander offers his cogent analysis and critique of a wide range of literary topics. Included among the essays are, “The Study of Fiction,” “Romance Against Romanticism,” and “Literature as a Profession.” He also offers his insights into the...

This 1910 collection of satiric essays on editors, the publishing industry, music, and culture includes “Sclerosis of the Tastes,” “Intimations of Italian Opera,” “The Superiority of Our Inferiors,” “Unimportance of Women in Republics,” “Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth,”...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s circle included Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Henry James, Robert Browning, Julia Ward Howe, and President Franklin Pierce. This lively son’s-eye-view, published in 1884, portrays the up-and-down life, work, and travels of a literary genius and his friends and associates in a time of intellectual ferment and social upheaval.

Published in 1910, this book is a testament to the long friendship between Howells and Twain.  "Emerson, Longfellow, Lowell, Holmes—I knew them all and all the rest of our sages, poets, seers, critics, humorists," Howells writes;  "they were like one another and like other literary men; but Clemens...