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When the Sleeper Wakes
H. G. Wells
Paperback (Everyman Paperbacks, Jan. 15, 1995)Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type, this book includes an introduction and comprehensive notes. This title is by H.G. Wells.
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Tales from Shakespeare
Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Hardcover (Dutton Adult, Sept. 1, 1960)Shakespeare's fourteen comedies and six tragedies retold in prose.
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Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Hardcover (Dutton Adult, April 15, 1969)In 1834, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., left the comforts of genteel Boston to endure the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working class.
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Typhoon and other stories
Joseph Conrad
Hardcover (Everyman's Library, Jan. 1, 1991)In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds.
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Cousin Phillis
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Hardcover (Dutton, Sept. 3, 1970)None
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Billy Budd & Other Stories
Herman Melville
Paperback (Everyman Paperbacks, May 15, 1993)Melville's last work, Billy Budd, Sailor (written between 1888 and 1891), is considered by many to be his finest work. Also in this volume is Melville's Piazza Tales, among them "Bartleby the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," and "The Encantadas."
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Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Hardcover (Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, )None
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Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Mark; Introduction by Christopher Morley Twain
Hardcover (J. M. Dent & Sons, Aug. 16, 1948)Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn [Number 976 Dent Everyman's Library]
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Thesaurus of English words & phrases
Peter Mark Roget
Hardcover (E.P. Dutton, March 15, 1925)None
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Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Hardcover (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., Jan. 1, 1959)None
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The heart of Midlothian
Walter Scott
Hardcover (Dutton, July 6, 1947)None
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The Ebb-Tide: A Trio and Quartette
Robert Louis Stevenson, David Daiches, Lloyd Osbourne
Paperback (Everymans Library, Dec. 1, 1994)Stevenson described the protagonists of The Ebb Tide (1894), who commandeer a schooner in pursuit of riches and adventure, as a "troop of swine." Yet in their murderous greed for pearls amidst the cruel splendor of Attwater's island, these characters lay bare the dilemmas of men morally at sea, their ideals and refinements corrupted by colonial illusions and cast adrift in unknown waters.