Boys

A Shakespearean Comedy The story follows Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, who flees to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia. In the ...

A Shakespearean Comedy Helena is hopelessly in love with Bertram, a nobleman. Despite her low social status, Helena cures the King of France, earni...

Three Bears Often entitled The Story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a fable about three bears who live in a house in the woods. Their pleasan...

(To Say Nothing of the Dog) A humorous account of a two-week boating holiday on the River Thames by three men and a dog. Initially intended to be a...

The Raven A narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The poem tells the story of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a t...

Or, Life Among the Lowly The classic anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a profound effect on the attitudes of the public to...

Capitalism and Socialism Belloc provides a broad overview of the economic history of Europe starting with the ancient pagan states through medieval...

A Dickens Classic Set in England during the middle of the 19th century, the story follows Philip Pirrip, “Pip” for short, a young orphan. Surroundi...

Tales of Mother Goose Charles Perrault’s famous retelling of classic folklore. Included are such popular fairy tales as Sleeping Beauty, Little Red...

The Life of an English Gentleman Rudolf V of Ruritania is about to be crowned king when he is drugged on the eve of his coronation and is unable to...

India Kari, the elephant, lives in India with his 9 year old owner where they bond during their adventures in the cities, jungles, and countryside....

The American Southwest The story of the Mojave Desert in the American Southwest. Written for audiences unfamiliar with life in the desert, the book...

A Historical Novel Luise Mühlbach’s historical fiction novel about Marie Antoinette and her son, Louis XVII, during the French Revolution. The book...

For These Times The shortest of Dicken’s novels, Hard Times surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. “M...

Spanish Explorer and Conquistador Frederick Ober’s biography of Juan Ponce de León. The book starts with a background of the Ponce de León family i...

The Russian Civil War Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski’s retelling of his escape from Red Army-controlled Siberia with fellow Poles and White Russians....

Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack Thomas Paine was a very strong supporter of the French Revolution that began in 1789; he visited France the following ...

‘Are we or they Lords of the World?’ One of the earliest works of fiction to detail a conflict between mankind and an extra-terrestrial race, the s...

A Tale Jim, a young British seaman, becomes first mate on the Patna, a ship full of “pilgrims of an exacting belief.” When the ship starts rapidly ...

The Great Gatsby It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous entertainments, and of his love for Dais...

Records of Expedition The first hand account of Sir Walter Raleigh during his first and second voyages to Guiana. Raleigh and his men were in searc...

A Romance A classic work of historical fiction set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1649. The novel tells the story of Hester P...