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  • The Sea-Wolf

    Jack London

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Classics, Sept. 15, 1993)
    Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title―offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Sea-Wolf includes a Foreword, Biographical Note, and Afterword by the Publisher.Shipwrecked during a weekend pleasure cruise, gentleman scholar Humphrey Van Weyden thinks his mysterious rescuers have saved his life.he's wrong.Van Weyden's trapped abroad the Ghost--a seal-hunting schooner crewed by the most desperate, brutal outcasts of the Pacific. Ghost's evil captain, Wolf Larsen--The Sea-Wolf--is murderous tyrant who uses his superhuman strength to torture and destroy, his brilliant mind to invent sick games, and his relentless will to control his mutinous crew.Each new day bring Van Weyden pain he'd never imagined. Escape is impossible. On deck flooded with the blood of the seal slaughter, he must battle a savage genius not just for his life--but for the last tattered shreds of his own soul.
  • The Swiss Family Robinson

    Johann David Wyss

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Classics, Feb. 15, 1996)
    Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Swiss Family Robinson includes an Introduction, Biographical Note, and Afterword by R. L. Fisher.The sea has been in a violent rage for many days. As the winds howled and the seas churned and boiled, the ship rolled and heaved in the gigantic waves. The crew and passengers grew more and more terrified. Suddenly--as if from the blow of a mighty fist--the ship broke apart....All were lost. All but a pastor, his wife, and four sons: the Swiss Family Robinson.Shipwrecked! Abandoned on a deserted tropical island with little more than a few simple tools--and each other--the family must use its intelligence, courage, ingenuity, and humor to survive. And each day brings yet another adventure...and danger!.
  • Cranford

    Elizabeth Gaskell, Prunella Scales

    (BBC Audiobooks America, Jan. 12, 2010)
    A portrait of the residents of an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford relates the adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances. Through a series of vignettes, Elizabeth Gaskell portrays a community governed by old-fashioned habits and dominated by friendships between women. This excellent unabridged reading is narrated by Prunella Scales.
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Mark Twain

    Mass Market Paperback (Aerie, June 15, 1987)
    Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title--offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn includes a Preface, Biographical Note, and Afterword by Keith Neilson.Breezy, outrageous, thrilling from first page to last, Huckleberry Finn is the most widely read and universally loved work in American fiction. It is also the most imitated. "All modern American literature," according to Ernest Hemingway, "comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
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  • Stories From Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare

    Hardcover (Usborne Books, Jan. 30, 2005)
    Contains: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, As you like it, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew.
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  • Ivanhoe

    Sir Walter Scott

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Classics, Sept. 15, 2000)
    As knights battle to the death, the fate of England hangs in the balance.England is in turmoil--torn by fierce and bitter hatreds between Norman and Saxon. Rival claimants to the throne have plunged into bloody civil war. Price John--taking advantage of Richard's absence while fighting in the Crusades--plots to make himself crowned king. Richard returns and vows to take his revenge on John.But he will need a courageous and able warrior on his side--a warrior like Wilfred of Ivanhoe.Disinherited by his father, disowned and dishonored, Wilfred allies himself with Richard. In many adventures he will battle knights in deadly tournaments, scale castle walls, be wounded, captured, and rescued by the infamous Robin Hood, and find true love with the fiery Rowena.In what has become Sir Walter Scott's most beloved and rousing adventure, Wilfred helps Richard I foil John's plot. More importantly, Wilfred of Ivenhoe reclaims his good name.
  • Men of Iron

    Howard Pyle

    Mass Market Paperback (Tor Classics, Feb. 7, 2006)
    The price of honor…Myles Falworth was only eight years old the day a knight in black rode into the courtyard of his father's castle with murderous intent, triggering a chain of events that brought disgrace to the house of Falworth. In spite of his family's disgrace, young Myles quickly wins a reputation for courage and independence while in training as a knight at the castle of the great Earl of Mackworth. Then one day, when Myles is sixteen, he discover that his blind father has been condemned for treason, and is being hunted by a powerful enemy who is close to the King. To challenge the King's champion means certain death. Myles must fight to restore his family's rights, but does he dare to risk battle to win back his family's honor?
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  • The Swiss Family Robinson

    Richard Blandford, Johann Wyss, Amit Tayal

    Paperback (Campfire, )
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  • Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

    Tony Digerolamo, Mark Twain, Rajesh Nagulakonda

    Paperback (Campfire, )
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  • The Wizard of Oz

    L. Frank Baum, Kathy Mitchell

    Hardcover (Golden Pr, Aug. 1, 1986)
    After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas.
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  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

    Phyllis Briggs

    Paperback (Dean & Son, )
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  • Moby Dick

    Lance Stahlberg, Herman Melville, Lalit Kumar Singh

    Paperback (Campfire, )
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