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This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!Mark Twain's "The Jumping Frog : In English, then in French, then clawed back into the civilized language once more by patient unremunerated toil" (1865), also known as "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog."Containing the original story (in english), a french translation which was published in la Revue des Deux Mondes and which Twain finds to be a travesty of the original text, and Twain's re-translation of the french back into english, word for word (this is where things degenerate). A masterpiece of babelfishien nonsense dating from well before babelfish was even a gleam in the binary code of its creator (1903). Best appreciated if you can read both French and English, but even if you skip the french version it's truly brilliant. If you have ever translated random text using babelfish just because it's funny, don't miss this book.As good old Samuel Clemens himself put it in his foreword "I cannot speak the French language, but I can translate very well, though not fast, I being self-educated."

This book contains a table of HTML content for easy reading.A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the enormous chasm of thousands of centuries, his consciousness has become entwined with that of Big-Tooth, an ancestor living at the dawn of humanity. Big-Tooth makes his home in Pleistocene Africa, a ferocious, fascinating younger world torn by incessant conflict between early humans and protohumans. Before Adam is a remarkable and provocative tale that thrust evolution further into the public spotlight in the early twentieth century and has since become a milestone of speculative fiction. The brilliance of the book lies not only in its telling but also in its imaginative projection of a mindset for early humans. Capitalizing on his recognized ability to understand animals, Jack London paints an arresting and dark portrait of how our distant ancestors thought about themselves and their world.

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, the novel's seven major characters create a dynamic imbalance, playing out the contrasts of city and country life and all the variations on love and family happiness.

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!An historical novel that interweaves historical and fictional characters. The action takes place immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt against Carthage in the third century BC. This book, which Flaubert researched painstakingly, is largely an exercise in sensuous and violent exoticism. The Carthaginian costumes described therein even left traces on the fashions of the time. Nevertheless, in spite of its classic status in France, it is practically unknown today among English-speakers.

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now referred to as the "Juvenilia," containing pieces originally written between 1787 and 1793. (from Wikipedia)The 1st volume of juvenilia includes:- Frederic & Elfrida- Jack & Alice- Edgar & Emma- Henry and Eliza- The Adventures of Mr. Harley- Sir William Mountague- Memoirs of Mr. Clifford- The Beautifull Cassandra- Amelia Webster- The Visit- The Mystery- The Three Sisters- Detached Pieces (A Fragment, A beautiful description, The generous Curate, Ode to Pity)

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable.The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC.This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last namesA Royal Prisoner [Marcel Allain]The Thames Valley Catastrophe [Grant Allen]Mr Standfast [John Buchan]The Three Hostages [John Buchan]Greenmantle [John Buchan]The Island of Sheep [John Buchan]The Thirty-Nine Steps [John Buchan]The Efficiency Expert [Edgar Rice Burroughs]The Man Who Was Thursday: a Nightmare [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]The Riddle of the Sands [Erskine Childers]The Woman in White [Wilkie Collins]The Rome Express [Arthur Griffiths]Lysbeth [Henry Rider Haggard]Desperate Remedies [Thomas Hardy]Rupert of Hentzau [Anthony Hope]The Prisoner of Zenda [Anthony Hope]The Apartment Next Door [William Andrew Johnston]The Film of Fear [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Green God [Frederic Arnold Kummer]The Czar's Spy [William Le Queux]The Pit: A Story of Chicago [Frank Norris]The Double Traitor [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Evil Shepherd [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The Kingdom of the Blind [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]The After House [Mary Roberts Rinehart]The International Spy [Allen Upward]The Bandbox [Louis Joseph Vance]Four Just Men [Edgar Wallace]The River of Death: A Tale of London In Peril [Fred Merrick White]The Dust of Death: The Story of the Great Plague of the Twentieth Century [Fred Merrick White]

Cronos Classics is the reference in classical works. All our works are of good quality and contain an active table of contents (HTML), which will make it easier for you to readOne Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient Indian literature and Persian literature, ancient Egyptian literature and Mesopotamian mythology, ancient Syria and Asia Minor, and medieval Arabic folk stories from the Caliphate era. Though the oldest Arabic manuscript dates from the fourteenth century, scholarship generally dates the collection's genesis to somewhere between AD 800–900.

The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Nell Trent, a beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen". An orphan, she lives with her maternal grandfather (whose name is never revealed) in his shop of odds and ends. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence with almost no friends her own age. Her only friend is Kit, an honest boy employed at the shop, whom she is teaching to write. Secretly obsessed with ensuring that Nell does not die in poverty as her parents did, her grandfather attempts to provide Nell with a good inheritance through gambling at cards. He keeps his nocturnal games a secret, but borrows heavily from the evil Daniel Quilp, a malicious, grotesquely deformed, hunchbacked dwarf moneylender. In the end, he gambles away what little money they have, and Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of the shop and evict Nell and her grandfather. Her grandfather suffers a breakdown that leaves him bereft of his wits, and Nell takes him away to the Midlands of England, to live as beggars.Convinced that the old man has stored up a large and prosperous fortune for Nell, her wastrel older brother, Frederick, convinces the good-natured but easily led Dick Swiveller to help him track Nell down, so that Swiveller can marry Nell and share her supposed inheritance with Frederick. To this end, they join forces with Quilp, who knows full well that there is no fortune, but sadistically chooses to 'help' them to enjoy the misery it will inflict on all concerned. Quilp begins to try to track Nell down, but the fugitives are not easily discovered. To keep Dick Swiveller under his eye, Quilp arranges for him to be taken as a clerk by Quilp's lawyer, Mr. Brass. At the Brass firm, Dick befriends the mistreated maidservant and nicknames her 'the Marchioness'. Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safet

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure!The story of a young adventurer, Godfrey Morgan, and his deportment instructor, Professor T. Artelett, who embark on a round-the-world ocean voyage. Their ship is wrecked and they are cast away on a remote island, where they rescue and befriend an African slave, Carefinotu.The novel is a robinsonade—a play on Daniel Defoe's 1791 novel Robinson Crusoe.