Category: Classics

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]”

Little Women [Large Print]

Little Women
Large Print Unabridged Edition
by Louisa May Alcott

With a large 7.44″x9.69″ page size and the complete text of both parts of this beloved classic, this large print edition is printed on hefty bright white paper with a fully laminated cover with an original full color design. Page headers and modern design and page layout are among the details characterizing this premium quality volume. This is not a machine-scanned “enlargement” of an old edition, but a freshly edited and formatted edition prepared by human editors.

Original content featured in this edition includes a detailed author biography, a detailed bibliography of Alcott’s work — both the well-known works and the little-known “potboiler” stories originally published anonymously or under pen names — and footnote annotations, added sparingly, to aid the modern reader with particularly unusual or antiquated words or phrases. Continue reading “Little Women [Large Print]”

Moby Dick

Moby Dick
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by Herman Melville

This quality edition, prepared by human editors and not machine-scanned, contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of Moby Dick, printed on heavyweight, bright white paper in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, with a fully laminated cover. Also included is a detailed introductory essay discussing the life and work of Herman Melville and the history and significance of Moby Dick, providing the modern reader with useful background information to enhance the enjoyment of this classic. Continue reading “Moby Dick”

The Lost World [Large Print]

The Lost World
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) is known the world over as the creator of the famous consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes. To a lesser extent, his irascible Professor Challenger is known to generations of readers. Continue reading “The Lost World [Large Print]”

The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground [Large Print]

The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by James Fenimore Cooper
Foreword by Nathaniel Waring Barnes

With the publication of “The Spy” in 1821, James Fenimore Cooper became an international figure and the first authentic American novelist, free of the forms and conventions of the British fiction of the day. In a writing career spanning thirty years, over thirty novels and an extensive body of lesser works, with “The Leatherstocking Tales” he became the first great interpreter of the American experience, chronicling the adventures of the indomitable Natty Bumppo, known variously as “Hawkeye,” “Deerslayer,” “Pathfinder,” “Leatherstocking” and other names, from the colonial Indian wars through the early expansion into the vast western plains. Continue reading “The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground [Large Print]”

A Tale of Two Cities [Large Print]

A Tale of Two Cities
The Complete and Unabridged Classic Edition in Large Print
by Charles Dickens

With well over 200 million copies sold and opening and closing lines that are among the most familiar in all of literature, “A Tale of Two Cities” (1859) is one of the best known and most widely-read books in all of literary fiction.

Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, the novel depicts the suffering of the French peasantry at the hands of the aristocracy and the subsequent abuses of the revolutionaries and their brutality against the aristocrats. Dickens, ever the social critic, manages to draw parallels to English society, and especially the stratified society of London, while creating his hallmark complex characters and compelling story. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Cities [Large Print]”

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities
The Complete & Unabridged Classic Edition
by Charles Dickens

This premium quality volume includes the complete and unabridged text of Charles Dickens’ timeless classic in a freshly edited and newly typeset edition. Not a reproduction or machine-scanned text, this edition has been prepared by human editors working from an exact digital image of the actual classic edition.

With well over 200 million copies sold and opening and closing lines that are among the most familiar in all of literature, A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is one of the best known and most widely-read books in all of literary fiction. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Cities”

The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume II

The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume II
The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau
Three Original Classics, Complete & Unabridged
by H. G. Wells

This freshly edited and newly typeset edition features a large 7.44″x9.69 page size and is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Also included in this volume are page headers and an introductory biographical sketch discussing Wells’ life, work and continuing literary significance.

The three tales included in this volume share the common theme of humanity’s efforts, with varying success, to advance and control science, and the effect of the individual scientist on the outcome, as well as the impact of scientific discovery on the individual scientist. A common theme in the science fiction genre, these tales by Wells represent three of the earliest and most influential such stories. Continue reading “The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume II”

The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume I

The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume I
The War of the Worlds, The First Men in the Moon
Two Original Classics, Complete & Unabridged
by H. G. Wells

This premium quality volume includes the complete text of two of H. G. Wells’ science fiction classics — The War of the Worlds and The First Men in the Moon — selected for this collection because of their enduring influence on the science fiction genre. Continue reading “The Best of H.G. Wells, Volume I”