Golden Classic Press: 679 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Tower of London is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1840. It is a historical romance that describes the history of Lady Jane Grey from her short-lived time as Queen of England to her execution.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Ben Baker, 16, leaves his widowed mother in Connecticut, to seek his fortune in New York City. He goes to New York and takes a job working in his rich uncle's department store, unaware that his uncle made...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea is a juvenile adventure novel written by L. Frank Baum, and published in 1906 under the pseudonym "Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald." The book was reprinted two years...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The King's Pilgrimage: An Account of King George V's Visit to the War Graves in Belgium and France is a reproduction of a volume first printed in 1922. The King's Pilgrimage concerns King George V's 'secret'...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Elizabethan drama about a mid-eastern emperor. According to Wikipedia: ""Christopher ""Kit"" Marlowe (1564 – 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Perhaps the civilised custom which permits women to'dine in the presence Of the greedier sex is the proudest conquest of Culture. Were it not for the excuse of joining the ladies, dinner parties (like the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt: ...the other at the same time. There was behind them a strong compact body of figures. The genius of Heroic Poetry appeared with a sword in her hand, and a laurel on her head. Tragedy was crowned...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: If ever you make a journey into Italy, there is one thing that you will like very much indeed; and that is the mode of travelling that prevails in that country. There are very few railroads there; and though...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from The Last Christmas Tree: An Idyl of Immortality Ife on this earth, my children, means warmth. Do not forget that whatever else it may be, life as we know it is warmth. Every living earthly...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: A Critic in Pall Mall by Oscar Wilde. Children's Book. Literature. An early book of 19th century, yet tops our present literature books. Here is the beginning o the book as follows; As one enters Rome from...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The only extant play by the great Irish novelist, Exiles is of interest both for its autobiographical content and for formal reasons. In the characters and their circumstances details of Joyce's life are...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Salah-ed-din, Commander of the Faithful, the king Strong to Aid, Sovereign of the East, sat at night in his palace at Damascus and brooded on the wonderful ways of God, by Whom he had been lifted to his...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Henry James's 1884 tale "Georgina's Reasons" presents readers with an insoluble hermeneutic problem regarding its heroine's motivation. This essay applies four interpretative frameworks - theological,...