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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered"...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Melville's verse printed for the most part privately in small editions from middle life onward after his great prose work had been written, taken as a whole, is of an amateurish and uneven quality. In it,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. He must fight bank robbers and befriends Indians during his adventure....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) was a 19th-century American author who wrote approximately 135 novels. Many of his works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish novelist, writing in English, while living in England. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Finally Silas Greyson agreed, and Ben promised to be on hand bright and early the next day. It may be stated here that wood was very cheap at Pentonville, so that Ben would not be overpaid. There...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: John Oakley, 15, lives with his stepmother. A battle brews over the intentions of his deceased father, since the stepmother wants all the estate and John knows there is a will in his favor. His father's...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Side Lights By James Runciman Side Lights By James Runciman is fact is sufficient to condemn them unread. For of all fools the most incorrigible is surely the conventional critic who judges literary wares...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrangement of words. Force, elegance, and variety of style are more difficult to teach, and far more...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from Letters of Lord Acton: To Mary Gladstone It does not seem likely that any one, after reading these letters, will question the desirability of their publication. In general they speak for themselves;...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was also an essayist, historian and biographer. Irving was the first American writer...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: King Charles the First was born in Scotland. It may perhaps surprise the reader that an English king should be born in Scotland. The explanation is this: The circumstance explained. They who have read the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Thomas Hardy, OM (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, in the tradition of George Eliot, he was also influenced both in his novels and poetry by Romanticism,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: the third of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 6 of his short stories as well as Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym. In it, Arthur Gordon Pym stows away on a whaling vessel and experiences shipwreck, mutiny, and other adventures in typical Poe fashion.