Month: September 2024

King Solomon’s Mines & Allan Quatermain

King Solomon’s Mines & Allan Quatermain
Two Original Classics, Complete & Unabridged
by Rider Haggard

This premium quality edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic versions of King Solomon’s Mines and the sequel, Allan Quatermain, printed on heavy, bright white paper in a large 6″x9″ format, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design.

Published in 1885 King Solomon’s Mines became the best-selling book of the year after being rejected by numerous publishers who found it too unusual to publish. The first “lost world” novel and the first English adventure novel set in Africa, it was also unconventional for its use of the first-person subjective viewpoint and simple conversational style. Continue reading “King Solomon’s Mines & Allan Quatermain”

The People That Time Forgot [Large Print]

The People That Time Forgot
The Caspak Trilogy, Volume 2 – Large Print
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The People That Time Forgot” are the inhabitants of “Caspak,” the native name for the island of Caprona, located somewhere in or near the Antarctic. Reported by the Italian explorer Caproni in 1721, the island’s location was subsequently “lost”. Both the island and the explorer are of course entirely fictional, and the island provides the setting for what has over the years become known as Burroughs’ science fiction “Caspak Trilogy.” Continue reading “The People That Time Forgot [Large Print]”

The Land That Time Forgot [Large Print]

The Land That Time Forgot
The Caspak Trilogy, Volume 1 – Large Print
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

“The Land That Time Forgot” is known as “Caspak,” the native name for the island of Caprona, located somewhere in or near the Antarctic. Reported by the Italian explorer Caproni in 1721, the island’s location was subsequently “lost”. Both the island and the explorer are of course entirely fictional, and the island provides the setting for what has over the years become known as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ science fiction/fantasy “Caspak Trilogy.” Continue reading “The Land That Time Forgot [Large Print]”

The Pioneers

The Pioneers
by James Fenimore Cooper
Foreword by Nathaniel Waring Barnes

The Pioneers, published in 1823, was the first of James Fenimore Cooper’s five novels comprising the “Leatherstocking Tales” saga, although the time period in which the story is set makes it the fourth chronologically. The original edition was published as “The Pioneers, Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale.”

Set in 1793, the tale opens with a dispute between an elderly Natty Bumppo, called Leatherstocking in this story, and Judge Marmaduke Temple of Templeton over who killed a buck. Perhaps ahead of his time, Cooper explores the complex themes of land use and stewardship along the rapidly receding frontier in the vicinity of Lake Otsego, New York, and the relationship between the residents of the growing town and the earlier inhabitants of the frontier. Continue reading “The Pioneers”

The Deerslayer

The Deerslayer
by James Fenimore Cooper
Foreword by Nathaniel Waring Barnes

The Deerslayer was published in 1841, the last published of Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales” saga. Chronologically, it is set before the other tales and thus first in the series. In recent years it has been viewed as the “prequel” to the Leatherstocking Tales.

“The Deerslayer” is of course Cooper’s indomitable frontier hero, Natty Bumppo, sometimes called “Hawkeye”, “Pathfinder”, “Leatherstocking” or “the Scout”, seen here as a young frontiersman in the vicinity of New York’s Lake Otsego, barely staying ahead of the advance of the British colonial settlements. Continue reading “The Deerslayer”

Main Street [Large Print]

Main Street
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Sinclair Lewis

Published in 1920, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis’s most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Told from the perspective of Carol Kennicott, a young woman married to a Midwestern doctor who settles in the small Minnesota town of Gopher Prairie, the novel satirizes small-town life as she comes into conflict with the small-town mentality of the residents of Gopher Prairie. After reading a book about village improvement in a sociology class while in college, she begins dreaming of redesigning villages and towns. After settling in her husband’s hometown she quickly comes to disdain the town’s physical appearance and conservatism and sets out to remake Gopher Prairie. Continue reading “Main Street [Large Print]”

George Eliot eBook Collection – 5 Classic Novels

Five major works by Victorian literary icon George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans):

Adam Bede
Daniel Deronda
Middlemarch
Silas Marner
The Mill On The Floss

This collection includes eBook editions of all five novels in PDF format, with the complete and unabridged text as originally published, searchable text, and a “clickable” table of contents. These are “free-flow” or “plain vanilla” eBooks, which means the text will flow from screen to screen depending on the size and settings of your device without being broken up by page headers or page numbers. Continue reading “George Eliot eBook Collection – 5 Classic Novels”

Riders of the Purple Sage [Large Print]

Riders of the Purple Sage
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Zane Grey

A classic of the western genre by master storyteller Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage is the story of Lassiter, a black-clad gunslinger who appears in a small frontier town in a remote corner of Utah just in time to thwart the matrimonial designs of a Mormon elder upon an unwilling bride, the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen. Lassiter does not appear by chance, but is on his own quest, which ends with the discovery of a hidden grave on Jane’s ranch.

Propelled by Grey’s characteristic mix of action, adventure, romance, violence, conflict, and sentimentalism, Riders of the Purple Sage is one of the most widely read westerns of all time. Continue reading “Riders of the Purple Sage [Large Print]”

Sense and Sensibility

Sense and Sensibility
Unabridged Original Classic Edition
by Jane Austen

This complete and unabridged edition  has been formatted and edited by human editors, based on the classic original edition, and is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover. A generous 6×9 page size and 11-point print make this edition easier on the eyes than many “standard” paperbacks.

Published anonymously in three volumes in 1811, Sense and Sensibility was Jane Austen’s first published novel. She began writing it about 1795, titled “Elinor and Marianne,” and worked on it sporadically until she extensively revised it in 1809 and began seriously pursuing its publication. Ultimately it was published under its well-known title after Jane’s family financed the initial costs of producing the book. Continue reading “Sense and Sensibility”

John Marshall and the Constitution [Annotated]

John Marshall and the Constitution
A Chronicle of the Supreme Court
by Edward Samuel Corwin

Widely considered the foremost historian of the Supreme Court for the first half of the 20th century, Corwin brought his historical approach and renowned narrative style to bear in this eminently readable account of the life and work of John Marshall, the single most influential jurist in American history.

Authoritative without being an overly detailed scholarly treatise, this unique work provides an excellent basic text for any reader interested in the roots of Constitutional law in the United States and the life of the man at the center of its early development. Continue reading “John Marshall and the Constitution [Annotated]”