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  Death of Ivan Ilyitch The...

  Leo Tolstoy

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  Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality

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  The Debt

  Edith Wharton

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  Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928, and 1930.The Debt is the story of the relationship between an eminent Professor of Biology and a young but highly talented student. The great Professor Landfear adopts the bright but socially awkward Galen Dredge as his protegé and future successor, preferring him even over his own son Archie.But when Dredge succeeds to the Landfear Chair of Evolution and becomes Director of the state-of-the-art Landfear Laboratory after his patron's death, he embarks on a series of lectures which seem to be designed to demolish Landfear's life's work. In the face of such treachery and ingratitude, Archie Landfear resolves to confront Dredge.

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  King Fisher's Road

  Shepard Rifkin

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  Kirby Fisher survived an Apache attack to become the most respected and feared man in the territory. Beating all the odds, there was no one left to oppose him. Then a man named Carson is dropped—more dead than alive—into King’s life. Tough and intelligent, Carson is the first man King has come across in years who can offer him any kind of a fight. But Carson isn’t ready, not yet. King will nurse him along until the greenhorn is ripe to turn his wits and his gun against the very man who created him.

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  Little Dorrit (Unabridged)

  Charles Dickens

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  When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard, and the tipsily garrulous Flora Finching, to Merdle, an unscrupulous financier, and the bureaucratic Barnacles in the Circumlocution Office. A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's maturity.

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  Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Unabridged

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) is a collection of twelve loosely connected teenage-Tarzan short stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Contents: Tarzan's First Love: Tarzan's courtship of the female ape Teeka. The Capture of Tarzan: Warriors of a cannibal village take Tarzan captive. The Fight for the Balu: Teeka and Taug have a baby (balu, in the ape language). The God of Tarzan: Tarzan discovers the concept of "God" in the books preserved in the cabin of his dead parents. Tarzan and the Black Boy: Jealous of Taug and Teeka's relationship with their baby, Tarzan kidnaps Tibo. The Witch-Doctor Seeks Vengeance: Bukawai attempts to claim credit for Tibo's return. The End of Bukawai: A modified Daniel in the lion's den. The Lion: Tarzan, the self-imposed teacher learns a lesson the hard way. The Nightmare: Tarzan eats stolen, rotten food… The Battle for Teeka: She rescues her rescuers. A Jungle Joke: Tarzan expresses his dislike to a tribe. Tarzan Rescues the Moon: A lunar eclipse defeated by arrows.

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  Malcolm

  George MacDonald

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  A masterpiece of mystery and spiritual power from one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers, the Scottish author who inspired C. S. Lewis.   This towering 1875 novel, set in the Scottish fishing village of Cullen, is considered by many as George MacDonald’s fictional masterwork. The intricate tale is more true to place than any of MacDonald’s books. As Malcolm is drawn into the web of secrets surrounding majestic Lossie House, with the marquis of Lossie and his tempestuous daughter Florimel at the center of them, we meet some of MacDonald’s most memorable characters. Through them Malcolm must unravel many mysteries that hang over the town and its people—and himself.   The Scottish dialect is more impenetrable than in many of MacDonald’s other Scottish novels, and has been translated into readable English in this newly updated edition by MacDonald’s biographer Michael Phillips. Calling it a “masterpiece of plot, drama, mystery, characterization, and spiritual depth,” it was Malcolm which in the 1970s set Phillips on his life’s-work to acquaint the world with MacDonald’s forgotten legacy through new editions of MacDonald’s work. Phillips says, “Malcolm is always an ideal choice for new readers to begin a deeper acquaintance with MacDonald,” especially as it is set in the locale from which The Cullen Collection of new editions derives its name. Phillips’s lengthy informative introduction sets Malcolm’s story colorfully into the context of MacDonald’s two 1870s visits to Cullen. Phillips also provides readers new to the works of MacDonald with a historical overview of the Scotsman’s writing and significance.

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