Books published by publisher Readable Classics

Readable Classics gently edits the great works of literature, retaining the original authors’ voices, to provide study aids for students and make the classics more accessible to modern readers.The Odyssey was written by the blind poet Homer over 2,800 years ago, one of the first and greatest works of Western literature. This epic tells the story of the Greek king Odysseus who, after fighting in the Trojan War for ten years, spends the next ten years trying to return home.During his journey, he must confront monsters, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and the wrath of Poseidon, God of the Sea. When he finally returns home, he must ally with the goddess Athena and use his courage and cunning to regain his kingdom and his family from the evil men who would destroy him.

Readable Classics gently edits the great works of literature, retaining the original authors' voices, to provide study aids for students and make the classics more accessible to modern readers. Written by the blind poet Homer over 2,800 years ago, The Odyssey was one of the first and greatest works of literature. This epic tells the story of the Greek king Odysseus who, after fighting in the Trojan War for ten years, spends the next ten years trying to return home. During his journey, he must confront monsters, hurricanes, shipwrecks, and the wrath of Poseidon, god of the sea. When he finally returns home, he must ally with the goddess Athena and use his courage and cunning to regain his kingdom and his family from the evil men who would destroy him.

A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocked heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as British policy toward the Irish in general.In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire.This edition of the essay includes a biography on the life of Jonathan Swift.

First published in 1893, "Bond Slaves - The Story of a Struggle" is a social novel by Isabella Banks concerning the Luddite movement, an organisation of textile workers who destroyed machinery in protest and fear of losing their jobs to automation the early nineteenth-century England. Isabella Banks (1821-1897) was a Manchester-born English poet and novelist most famous for her book "The Manchester Man" (1876). Contents include: "A Prophecy", "The Home on the Moorside", "Going to Market", "Put to the Test", "Germs of Fate", Josiah and his Friends", "Haunted by Punishment", "Storms Let Loose", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "More than Coronets" (1881), "Caleb Booth's Clerk: A Lancashire Story" (1878), "Glory: A Wiltshire Story, Sybilla and other Stories" (1885). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new addition complete with "A Biography by Elizabeth Lee" from "Dictionary of National Biography" (1901).

"All in a Month and Other Stories" is a fantastic collection of short stories written by popular author Allen Raine, a Welsh author who has laid forgotten for many years. They include: "All in a Month", "'Flow On, Thou Shining River'", "A Life's Chase", "'In the Rush of the River'", "Was it the Wind?", "A Dream at Sea", "A Step in the Dark!", "Home, Sweet Home", "Betti Wyn's Christmas", etc. Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe (1836-1908), also known under the pen name Allen Raine, was a Welsh best-selling novelist whose novels had sold over two million copies by 1912. Other notable works by this author include: "Hearts of Wales" (1905), "Queen of the Rushes" (1906), and "Neither Storehouse nor Barn" (1908). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Daniel Lleufer Thomas.