Framed for a murder he did not commit, John North must rely on his friends to help clear him of the charge. But, are they really his friends? Many...

The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions...

This novel was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a...

A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was...

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories,...

Joseph Andrews was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in...

Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the...

Written for the centenary of Jane Austen's death, W. H. Helm reflects poetically on the timelessness of her work: the must of age has not settled...

Deputy Sheriff Tug Blackstock wanted a dog to help with his work. As for Jim, at first glance he might almost have been taken for a slim, young...

A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing what...

The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to his early death from complications...

As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends...