The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]

The Innocence of Father Brown, Large Print Edition
Father Brown Mysteries
The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]: The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by G. K. Chesterton

Mystery fans unfamiliar with Father Brown may find Chesterton’s stories a bit different. Many of the stories don’t quite fit either the standard (“Whodunit?”) or inverted (“Howcatchem?”) styles common to the mystery genre, and Father Brown is frequently less concerned with the apprehension of the wrongdoer than with getting him to understand, and admit, the error of his ways. Continue reading “The Innocence of Father Brown [Large Print Edition]”

The Wisdom of Father Brown [Large Print]

Father Brown Mysteries
The Wisdom of Father Brown, Large Print Edition  The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by G. K. Chesterton

This premium quality large print edition contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of The Wisdom of Father Brown, including twelve stories featuring G.K Chesterton’s mystery-solving priest, printed on heavy, bright white 60# paper in a large 7.44″x9.69″ format, with page headers and a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design. Continue reading “The Wisdom of Father Brown [Large Print]”

The Island of Dr. Moreau [Large Print]

The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by H. G. Wells

In this 1896 science fiction classic, a shipwrecked Englishman named Edward Prendick is rescued from the sea and subsequently abandoned on a secluded island, which he soon finds is owned by a once-eminent British physiologist named Dr. Moreau. Shunned when his gruesome experiments with vivisection were exposed, Moreau continued his experiments on his island with horrific results, creating animals surgically altered to mimic human beings. Continue reading “The Island of Dr. Moreau [Large Print]”

Elmer Gantry [Large Print]

Elmer Gantry
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Sinclair Lewis

Written by Sinclair Lewis in 1926 and published in 1927, Elmer Gantry is a satirical novel that presents a disparaging view of fundamentalist and evangelistic religious activity in the United States and the public attitudes of the 1920s.

The novel tells the story of Elmer Gantry, a young, narcissistic, womanizing college athlete who abandons his plan to become a lawyer and instead, after college, attends a Baptist seminary and is ordained as a minister. Able to hide certain sexual indiscretions, he is ultimately expelled before completing his Bachelor of Divinity degree for missing a scheduled preaching engagement while drunk. Continue reading “Elmer Gantry [Large Print]”

The War of the Worlds [Large Print]

The War of the Worlds
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by H. G. Wells

This tale involves the theme of humanity coming into conflict with strange alien societies, in this case the invasion of the earth by hostile Martians. Wells would revisit this theme, in the context of the encounter between human explorers and the native inhabitants, in The First Men in the Moon. A common theme in the science fiction genre, these tales by Wells represent two of the earliest and most influential such stories. But unlike so many of the similar stories that have followed, Wells did not posit either the innate superiority of humanity or man’s scientific achievements as the earth’s salvation. Rather, Wells’ story portrays humanity as more or less at the mercy of forces beyond its control, reflecting an underlying fear that scientific discovery and progress might not make man the unchallenged master of the universe after all. Continue reading “The War of the Worlds [Large Print]”

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Large Print]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Large Print Unabridged Edition
by Robert Louis Stevenson

This quality large print edition is not a machine-scan or computer-generated reproduction of an older version. It has been edited and formatted by human editors and contains the complete and unabridged original classic version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s macabre tale, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, printed on heavy, bright white paper in a 6″x9″ format, with a fully laminated full-color cover featuring an original design.

Treasure Island (1883) was Robert Louis Stevenson’s first book-length work of fiction. It brought him widespread popularity and was one of the era’s most widely read books. With the publication of Kidnapped Stevenson came to be thought of as a children’s writer, which made the appearance of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde all the more startling. Continue reading “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [Large Print]”

The Circular Staircase [Large Print]

The Circular Staircase
Unabridged Large Print Edition
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

The Circular Staircase…

“This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective agencies happy and prosperous. . .”

And so begins The Circular Staircase, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s classic mystery tale featuring a bank failure, a murder, mysterious intruders, a kidnapping, arson and a characteristically complex plot which twists and turns like the circular staircase that figures so prominently, and ominously, in setting the scene for a series of mysterious events. Continue reading “The Circular Staircase [Large Print]”

The First Men in the Moon [Large Print]

The First Men in the Moon
The Complete & Unabridged Original Classic
by H. G. Wells

This story, an early and influential tale of humans traveling through space, involves the theme of humanity coming into conflict with alien societies, in this case the encounter between human explorers and the native inhabitants of the moon. Wells had previously considered this theme, in the context of the invasion of the earth by hostile Martians, in The War of the Worlds. A common theme in the science fiction genre, these tales by Wells represent two of the earliest and most influential such stories. But unlike so many of the similar stories that have followed, Wells did not indulge assumptions of the innate superiority of humanity or man’s scientific achievements. Rather, Wells portrays humanity as engaged in a struggle with forces beyond its control, reflecting an underlying fear that scientific discovery and progress might not make man the unchallenged master of the universe after all. Continue reading “The First Men in the Moon [Large Print]”

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]”