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  Travelling Musicians The - Story...

  Brothers Grimm

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  In a sometimes meandering, intermittently rhyming narrative, Page retells the Brothers Grimm tale about four animals who set out to make a new life for themselves after their masters reject them.

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  Jules Vern Around The World In...

  Jules Verne

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  Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days... immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible. With his excitable French manservant in tow, Fogg undertakes the exercise immediately, with no preparations, trusting that his traveling funds will make up for delays along the way. But unbeknownst to him, British police are desperately seeking to arrest him for the theft of a huge sum by someone who resembles him, and they will track him around the world, if necessary, to apprehend him. This is an adventure novel of the first water, with wholly unexpected perils, hair-breadth escapes, brilliant solutions to insoluble problems, and even a love story. And can this be? - That he returns to London just five minutes too late to win his wager and retain his fortune?  
   
  Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels.

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  Lady of the Shroud The (Unabridged)

  Bram Stoker

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  The Lady of the Shroud is a novel by Bram Stoker, published by William Heinemann in 1909.The book is an epistolary novel, narrated in the first person via letters and diary extracts from various characters, but mainly Rupert. The initial sections, leading up to the reading of the uncle's will, told by other characters, suggest that Rupert is the black sheep of the family, and the conditions of having to live in the castle in the Blue Mountains for a year before he can permanently inherit the unexpectedly large million-pound estate suggest the uncle is somehow testing the heir.

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  O Henry - A Short Story...

  O Henry

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  O Henry perhaps the master of the American short story across his 600 works.  Slices of life, vignettes of narrative are told with verve and poise and words that simply flow as he wanders through society revealing characters and stories of instant appeal. 
  1 - O Henry - A Short Story Collection - An Introduction - Volume 2 
  2 - The Ransom of Red Chief by O Henry 
  3 - Hearts and Hands by O Henry 
  4 - The Unknown Quantity by O Henry 
  5 - A Retrieved Reformation by O Henry 
  6 - The Social Triangle by O Henry 
  7 - The Skylight Room by O Henry 
  8 - The Plutonian Fire by O Henry 
  9 - Witch's Loaves by O Henry 
  10 - Springtime a la Carte by O Henry 
  11 - The Last Leaf by O Henry 
  12 - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O Henry

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  What Would Father and Mother...

  Booker T. Washington

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  Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite. Washington was from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. They were newly oppressed in the South by disenfranchisement and the Jim Crow discriminatory laws enacted in the post-Reconstruction Southern states in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.WHAT WOULD FATHER AND MOTHER SAY?: I think there is no more important or more critical time in a person's life than when he or she leaves home for the first time, to enter school, or to go to work, or to go into business.

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  Samuel The Seeker

  Upton Sinclair

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  “Samuel the Seeker” by Upton Sinclair is a thought-provoking social and political satire. The novel follows the journey of Samuel Prescott, an idealistic young farm boy who strikes out on his own to strike it rich when his father dies shortly after losing all of his savings in a bad stock market investment. Samuel encounters a variety of characters, from the fiendish and jaded Capitalists to the sainted Socialists, with the righteous religious and the purchased politicians and police along the way. This rags-to-rags story examines every form of social injustice and societal ill through the eyes of Samuel.

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