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Sense and sensibility (Wordsworth Classics Ser.)
Par Jane Austen. 1811
This witty satirical novel, the first of Jane Austen’s to be published, is a study in contrasts between two sisters.…
Their unfortunate love affairs evoke very different responses from Elinor, who has sense, and Marianne, who has sensibility. 1811.Pride and prejudice (Classics Library)
Par Jane Austen. 2002
The entertaining novel has been popular since its original publication in 1813. The observation and characterization are more important than…
the plot, which deals with the five daughters of an English country family and their romantic affairs. 2002.Treasure island (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The red badge of courage (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Stephen Crane, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
Henry Fleming, an unsophisticated country boy, enthusiastic to serve his country, enlists with the Union forces at the beginning of…
the Civil War. At first, the shock of war causes him to retreat and his heroic vision of himself fades. In the next battle, however, his courage revives as he carries forward the regiment's colours in a crucial advance. Adaptation of the American classic by Stephen Crane, originally published in 1895. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.Frankenstein (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Emily Hutchinson. 1999
The monster created by Dr. Frankenstein was supposed to be man's benefactor but, scorned for his ugliness, he swears revenge…
on his creator and the human race. Adaptation of Mary Shelley's work, published in 1831. For junior and senior high readers. c1999.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Saddleback classics #Set Ii)
Par Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
A kind and well-respected doctor can turn himself into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug he has created.…
Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", first published in 1886. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.The adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin classics #Set Ii)
Par Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Saddleback classics #Set I)
Par Mark Twain, Joanne Suter. 1999
The hunchback of Notre Dame (Tor Classics Ser.)
Par Victor Hugo. 1996
The last of the Mohicans (Oxford World's Classics Ser.)
Par James Fenimore Cooper. 1994
A story of the French and Indian War at Fort William Henry in 1757. Around this historical event, Cooper built…
a fiction based on the adventures of Leatherstocking and his Indian friends. Sequel to "The Deerslayer". 1826.The professor (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
Par Charlotte Brontë, Heather Glen. 1989
This first novel by the famous author of "Jane Eyre," is based on Bronte's experience as a young woman studying…
in Belgium, where she fell hopelessly in love with a married teacher. Many scholars acknowledge it as a study for her later novel, "Villette." 1989.The mill on the Floss (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
Par George Eliot. 1994
Maggie Tulliver, whose father owns a mill on the River Floss, and her brother Tom are united by a strong…
bond. But when Maggie is pursued by the son of the lawyer who ruined their father, Tom forbids their friendship. Later, Maggie falls in love with the fiancé of her cousin Lucy Deane. Repenting, her life is made desperately unhappy. 1860.Great expectations (Penguin Popular Classics Ser.)
Par Charles Dickens. 1994
A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip, a young boy adopted by a blacksmith and his wife, with the chance to…
escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by the expectations of wealth, he abandons his friends and moves to London. 1861.The picture of Dorian Gray (Penguin classics)
Par Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall. 1890
"If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old...I would give…
my soul for that!" The wish uttered by Dorian Gray as he gazes on his portrait forms the basis of this story, of a gilded and spoilt hedonist who is willing to sell his soul for his beauty. 1890.Romola (Penguin classics)
Par George Eliot, Andrew Sanders. 1980
Set in late 15th-century Italy, in the Renaissance Florence of Machiavelli and the Medicis, "Romola" reconstructs a turning point in…
the intellectual history of Europe by charting the career and martyrdom of the charismatic religious leader Savonarola. Originally published in 1863. 1980.Old mortality (Forsyte chronicles)
Par Walter Scott. 1975
Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion known as the Covenanter uprising, Henry Morton of Milnewood is compelled to…
take up arms against the royalists, who are led by Claverhouse, a true villain in Scottish history. A moderate Covenanter, Morton is one of the "people's heroes" who challenge King Charles II and change the course of Scottish history. 1816.Rip Van Winkle and other stories (Puffin classics)
Par Washington Irving. 1994
Five tales by Washington Irving (1783-1859). In the title story, the good-natured but lazy Rip Van Winkle falls asleep for…
twenty years in the Catskills. In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," schoolmaster Ichabod Crane encounters the Headless Horseman. Includes "The Spectre Bridegroom," "The Pride of the Village," and "Mountjoy." Origianlly published 1819. 1994. Rip Van Winkle -- Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- Spectre bridegroom -- Pride of the village -- Mountjoy.Uncle Tom's cabin: or, Life among the lowly (A Harper classic)
Par Harriet Beecher Stowe. 1965
First published in 1852, abolitionist Stowe's depiction of the moral injustice of slavery and the evils of materialism. Tom saves…
little Eva's life, and years later she tries to help him gain his freedom. Eventually, Tom's protection of runaway Eliza costs him his life at the hands of the brutal ex-Yankee Simon Legree. 1965.Wives and daughters (The Penguin English library)
Par Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Frank Glover Smith, Laurence Lerner. 1969
This story of Mr. Gibson's new marriage and its influence on the lives of those closest to him is underpinned…
by a sense of social change, and of the more basic realities of birth and death. First published in 1866. 1969.Wild animals I have known (New Canadian library ; #141)
Par Ernest Thompson Seton. 1898