True North: 481 books

Although Chicago is not mentioned in the book as the scene of action, the Chamber of Commerce of that city is the point round which the action centers. The Bear and the Banker are chums. The Bull is financed by the Banker in the endeavor to run the "corner" in lard, and the story derives...

The chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling.

Billy Budd (1924) is a novella begun in November 1888 by American author Herman Melville, left unfinished at his death in 1891, and published in 1924. It was acclaimed by British critics as a masterpiece when published in London, and quickly took its place among the canon of significant works in the United States.

Cymbeline is a play by William Shakespeare about the mythological king whose personality probably derives from that of British chieftain Cunobelinus, who is thought to have risen to power around the year 9 A.D. It was first published in the First Folio collection of Shakespeare's plays in 1623, several...

King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars...

The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole.

This collection of classic Joseph Conrad stories includes KARAIN: A MEMORY, THE IDIOTS, AN OUTPOST OF PROGRESS, THE RETURN and THE LAGOON

This superb collection of Russian classic short stories includes MUMU by Ivan Turgenev THE SHOT by Alexander Pushkin ST. JOHN'S EVE by Nikolai Gogol and AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE by Leo Tolstoy.  

The writer only attempts to give some account of what occurred within his own observation; he would have esteemed it a privilege to enter into all the detail that lights up the last desperate struggle, made by that glorious remnant of the Army of Northern Virginia, with its skeleton battalions from...

This volume represents yet another nature classic from the great natural history writer, James Oliver Curwood. The present text tells the tale of a quarter-strain wolf and three-quarters husky" torn between the call of the human and his wild mate.

This classic collection of Thomas Hardy poems contains A CHRISTMAS GHOST-STORY, THE DEAD DRUMMER, A WIFE IN LONDON and THE SOULS OF THE SLAIN

Acclaimed naturalist/writer John Burroughs examines the small fur-bearing mammals such as squirrels, mice, weasels and foxes in this classic work. This version of the classic book contains new photos and illustrations that show these animals as they really appear in the wild and provide nice supplement to Burroughs's timeless descriptions.

Nearly four hundred years ago, there lived in the village of La Mancha in Spain an old gentleman of few worldly possessions but many books, who was given to a hardy and adventurous way of life, and who beguiled his spare time by reading the many tales of chivalry and knighthood that were in his possession.

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare where Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skilful manipulation.     He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to lure his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to the island.