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  The Auction Block - A Novel of...

  Rex Beach

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  A Long Island family with a beautiful daughter comes to New York to sell her — into a chorus line first, then into the best marriage the mother can arrange, the auction block being the point of the title. Beach joined the Klondike rush at twenty-two, struck nothing, and mined the experience instead; here he leaves the North for Broadway, and the mother is one of the most convincing monsters in American fiction. Twenty plates of painting by Sloan, Bellows, and their contemporaries carry the city's bars, stages, and harbor lights that Beach's Broadway runs on.

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  The Iliad

  Homer

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  The Iliad is one of the oldest works of Western literature, dating back to classical antiquity. Homer's epic poem belongs in a collection called the Epic Cycle, which includes The Odyssey. Written in an early literary dialect of ancient Greek, both poems were originally composed in dactylic hexameters. This meter is beautiful in the original but can sound awkward in modern English; Eric McMillan humorously described it as resembling "pumpkins rolling on a barn floor."
  This epic poem begins with the Achaean army sacking the city of Chryse and capturing two maidens as prizes of war. One of the maidens, Chryseis, is given to Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaeans, and the other maiden, Briseis, was given to the army's best warrior, Achilles. Chryseis' father, the city's priest, prays to the god Apollo and asks for a plague on the Achaean army. To stop this plague, Agamemnon returns Chryseis to her father, but then orders Achilles to give him Briseis as compensation. Achilles refuses.

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  The Lady of the Shroud - An...

  Bram Stoker

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  An Englishman inherits an estate in the Land of the Blue Mountains, on the Adriatic, and a woman in a shroud comes to his window at night, wet from the sea, and will not enter uninvited. Stoker spent twenty-seven years as business manager to Henry Irving, running the Lyceum; this 1909 novel came a dozen years after Dracula, and the explanation he provides for the lady is not the one the reader is enjoying. Fifty-one plates of castles by the sea and castle ruins, from Arnold Böcklin and George Goodwin, keep the Adriatic stronghold and its night visitor in view throughout.

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  Mowgli's Brothers - The First...

  Rudyard Kipling

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  Mowgli's Brothers - a story of boy is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle with the help of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, who teach him the "Law of the Jungle". Some years later, the wolfpack and Mowgli are threatened by the tiger Shere Khan. Mowgli brings fire, driving off Shere Khan but showing that he is a man and must leave the jungle.
  The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English author Rudyard Kipling. 
  Famous stories of The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling: Mowgli's Brothers, Kaa's Hunting, Tiger! Tiger!, The White Seal, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, Toomai of the Elephants, Her Majesty's Servants.

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  The Cask of Amontillado

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  First published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book, the story is set in 19th century Italy and concerns the deadly revenge taken by the insane narrator on a friend who he claims has insulted him. Like several of Poe's stories, and in keeping with the 19th century fascination with the subject, the narrative revolves around a person being buried alive.

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  Loss of Breath

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe’s Loss of Breath is a bizarre dark comedy of death, mistaken identity, and absurd misfortune. Follow Mr. Lackobreath through a series of grotesque near-death encounters in this satirical classic of nineteenth-century short fiction.

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