Books published by publisher Easton Press

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humor coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. The Comedy of Errors (along with The Tempest) is one of only two of Shakespeare's plays to observe the classical unities. It has been adapted for opera, stage, screen and musical theatre. The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers, Antipholus of Ephesus and his servant, Dromio of Ephesus. When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their twins, a series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to wrongful beatings, a near-seduction, the arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus, and false accusations of infidelity, theft, madness, and demonic possession. This volume is illustrated by John Austen; the text of the 1st folio edited and amended by Herbert Fargeon.

In this fine leather-bound edition, the frontispiece is taken from the dust jacket art of the original 1934 First Edition. Because Hammett complained about the jacket for an earlier novel, he created his own for 'The Thin Man.' In it, he featured a full-length photo of himself, which seemed to model the detective Nick Charles - elegant and debonair in a tweed suit and wide-brimmed hat, carrying a cane.

Felix Salten's BAMBI: A LIFE IN THE WOODS The immortal novel that follows the life of a deer in the forest – from his birth to his adulthood as a stag, and his learning of the dangers posed by interaction with humans. Salten’s novel is the source of the beloved Disney film. This edition features a wealth of vintage illustrations. 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", 304pp

This is a book originally sold by The Easton Press, 47 Richards Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06857 as part of its "100 Greatest Books Ever Written Collector's Edition" collection which then evolved into "The Greatest Books Ever Written" collection. Many of the books carry a 1979 copyright but may have been printed in different years with different cover art. This is a leather-bound volume featuring 22kt gold accents, illustrations, moiré fabric endsheets, gilded page ends, and a satin-ribbon page marker. The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come is a 1678 Christianallegory written by John Bunyan. The entire book is presented as a dream sequence narrated by an omniscient narrator. The allegory's protagonist, Christian, is an everyman character, and the plot centres on his journey from his hometown, the "City of Destruction" ("this world"), to the "Celestial City" ("that which is to come" or Heaven) atop Mount Zion. Christian is weighed down by a great burden—the knowledge of his sin—which he believed came from his reading "the book in his hand" (the Bible). This burden, which would cause him to sink into Hell, is so unbearable that Christian must seek deliverance.

Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.