Category: Classics

The Idiot: Unabridged Large Print Edition

The Idiot
The Complete and Unabridged Original Classic Edition in Large Print
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Translated by Eva Martin

This premium quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Idiot, printed on heavyweight, bright white paper in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Also included is authoritative introductory commentary discussing the life and work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and The Idiot in particular, providing the modern reader with useful background information to enhance the enjoyment of this classic novel. Continue reading “The Idiot: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

Moby Dick: Unabridged Large Print Edition

Moby Dick
The Complete & Unabridged Large Print Original Classic Edition
by Herman Melville

This quality large print edition contains the unabridged original classic version of Moby Dick in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, printed on heavyweight bright white paper, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Also included is an original introductory author biography and essay discussing the life and work of Herman Melville and the history and significance of Moby Dick, to provide the modern reader with useful background information and enhance the enjoyment of this classic novel. Continue reading “Moby Dick: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

Pride and Prejudice: Unabridged Large Print Edition

Pride and Prejudice
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic Edition
by Jane Austen

This premium quality large print volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Jane Austen’s timeless classic romance in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition.

With a large 7.44″x9.69″ page size, this large print edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design.

Set among the minor gentry in the vicinity of the fictional town of Meryton, near London in Hertfordshire, the novel follows the activities of Elizabeth Bennet, the second of five daughters of a country gentleman and his rather crass and intellectually limited wife. Continue reading “Pride and Prejudice: Unabridged Large Print Edition”

Riders of the Purple Sage

Riders of the Purple Sage
Unabridged Original Classic
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. Continue reading “Riders of the Purple Sage”

Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous
A Story of the Grand Banks
by Rudyard Kipling

Captains Courageous was first published in serial form in 1896 while Kipling and his family were living in Vermont and published in novel form the following year. It tells the story of Harvey Cheyne, Jr., the arrogant and utterly self-absorbed son of a railroad tycoon who finds himself overboard during an ocean crossing. Rescued by a fishing schooner working the Grand Banks, Harvey, stranded as a member of the crew for the season, learns a series of lessons about life and manhood in this classic coming-of-age tale. Continue reading “Captains Courageous”

Jane Austen eBook Collection – Novels

Beloved English author Jane Austen wrote six novels in her lifetime:

1811 Sense & Sensibility
1813 Pride & Prejudice
1814 Mansfield Park
1815 Emma
1817 Persuasion (published posthumously)
1817 Northanger Abbey (published posthumously)

This collection includes eBook editions of all six 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 “Jane Austen eBook Collection – Novels”

A Princess of Mars [Large Print]

A Princess of Mars
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This, the first of dozens of popular tales spun by Burroughs, is the story of the romance between John Carter, mysteriously transported to Mars from the Arizona desert, and Dejah Thoris, the “Princess of Mars” for whom the tale is named.

In Edgar Rice Burroughs’ trademark style, former Confederate officer John Carter is thrown into a series of non-stop adventures at breakneck pace, with the earthling pitted against a variety of Martian men and beasts, finding adversaries and adventure on seemingly every page and finding a few friends – and the love of his life – in the course of this epic adventure. Continue reading “A Princess of Mars [Large Print]”

Mansfield Park [Large Print]

Mansfield Park
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Jane Austen

This quality large print edition is not a machine scanned or facsimile “blowup” of an older edition. Edited and formatted by human editors, it is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover.

Mansfield Park…

Mansfield Park was Jane Austen’s third novel, first published in 1814. Characterized by Austen’s dry wit and biting satire, its tone and discussion of religion and religious duty, propriety and morality, obedience, privacy, and adultery has resulted in its description as both the most serious and mature and the most problematic of Austen’s novels. Continue reading “Mansfield Park [Large Print]”

The Secret Garden

The Secret Garden
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic Edition
by Frances H. Burnett

Little Mary Lennox, raised in India by servants and left alone in the world after a cholera epidemic, is sent to live with an uncle she has never met in a nearly empty mansion on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. Spoiled and self-absorbed, Mary soon finds that the mansion is not so empty as it seems at first, gradually learns that world does not revolve around her, and is filled with wonderful living things and people who can become friends. Continue reading “The Secret Garden”

Sense and Sensibility [Large Print]

Sense and Sensibility
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Jane Austen

This unabridged large print Edition is not an electronic scan or reproduction. The text 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.

Sense and Sensibility…

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 [Large Print]”