Golden Classic Press: 679 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Charles Dickens, who was born in 1812, is considered one of the greatest of English novelists. Certainly he is the most popular. Not only did he have an important place in nineteenth-century literature,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The chief purpose of the supernatural study, The Book of Dreams and Ghosts is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Timothy Shay Arthur (June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885) was a popular 19th-century American author, most famous for his temperance novel, Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854). His novel, which...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "The Sun of Quebec" is the sixth and closing volume of the French and Indian War Series of which the predecessors have been "The Hunters of the Hills," "The Shadow of the North,"...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: To supply one quota of the inside history of the great Abolition war, is the primary object of this work; but scarcely secondary to this object is that of recording incidents characteristic of the Peculiar Institution overthrown in that struggle.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This volume contains Robert Louis Stevenson s "Familiar Studies of Men and Books," being a fascinating exploration of the life and work of a number of seminal authors from across the globe. It...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Basil is the second novel written by British author Wilkie Collins, after Antonina. Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: [...]for his soul in its times of stress. One result of a perusal of the poems is to counteract the impression often produced by the jaunty air assumed in the prose. The real substance of Arnold's thought...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: " ...]the scenes of his existence ... and in his family affections. A nature warm to its own, kindly to all, cheerful, fond of sport and fun, and always fed from pure fountains, and with it a character...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: omplete edition with biographical introduction. Although remembered now for his elegantly argued critical essays, Arnold was a Victorian-era poet. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the legendary headmaster...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This 1867 collection of lectures influenced the Irish literary revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnold characterizes the Celtic genius as fanciful and poetic, and argues that its contributions to the English national character have been overlooked or underestimated.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's third full-length novel--unlike his many others--is a love story. Because of their royal responsibilities and lifestyle, Prince Otto and his wife have grown apart. Caught up in...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Here's your breakfast, miss. I hope it's right. Your mother showed me how to fix it, and said I'd find a cup up here. "Take that blue one. I have not much appetite, and can't eat if things are not...