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Trailin’!
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Max Brand
A classic western by Max Brand, a master of the western novel.
From an unlikely chance encounter at an improbable location, the unexpected opening scenes of this early Max Brand western classic quickly shift to the vast spaces of the old west and the non-stop western action Max Brand fans have expected and enjoyed for generations. Continue reading “Trailin’! [Large Print]”
The Childerbridge Mystery
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Guy Newell Boothby
The son of a hardworking country doctor, William Standerton found himself alone in Australia at the age of sixteen. In fifty years’ time, he was a wealthy man, telling himself that he owed his good fortune to his own hard work and shrewd business capabilities. A widower with a grown son and daughter, he turned his Australian holdings over to carefully selected managers, took his children with him, and returned to England to live the life of a country gentleman.
Deciding that Childerbridge Manor will suit his needs, he settles into the estate despite local lore which holds it to be haunted. But once the family takes up residence, the trouble starts. The ghost – or ghosts – seem to be both real and unfriendly, and a menacing secret has followed him from Australia, along with the villanous man who holds the key to that secret.
William Standerton will meet his fate in Childerbridge Manor, and an unexpected twist or two will lie along the path to solving the mystery of his death and uncovering the dark secret of his life. Continue reading “The Childerbridge Mystery [Large Print]”
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
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
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
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
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
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]”
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
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]”