Unabridged Stories written by Mark Twain. The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County, Tom Quartz, The Story of the Old Ram, What Stumped the Blue Jays, Journalism in Tennessee, Carnival of Crime, Buck Fenshaw's Funeral.

Unabridged Stories written by Kate Chopin. Thirteen of the best of Chopin's stories of Louisiana including Desiree's Baby and Love on the Bon-Dieu.

"A Room with a View" by E. M. Forster is a captivating novel that takes readers on a journey of self-discovery, love, and societal conventions. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman torn between societal expectations and her desire for personal freedom. Lucy's life takes a transformative turn when she travels to Italy with her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Amid the stunning landscapes of Florence,...

The centuries old epic about the wrath of Achilles is rendered into modern English verse by a renowned translator and accompanied by an introduction that reassesses the identity of Homer. In Robert Fagles' beautifully rendered text, the Iliad overwhelms us afresh. The huge themes godlike, yet utterly human of savagery and calculation, of destiny defied, of triumph and grief compel our own humanity. Time after time, one pauses and re-reads before continuing....

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.