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A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)

A Good Man Is Hard to Find (A Women's Press Classic)

by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American short story writers whose subjects are the duality of the Deep South and her Catholic faith. O'Connor once referred to A Good Man is Hard to Find as 'nine stories about original sin'. Combining a deft comic sensibility with the grotesque and tragic, they are stories in which characters lead lives of brutal poverty and fierce cruelty; where ordinary events can tip over... (more)

Bartleby The Scrivener

by Herman Melville

At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy. First, Turkey; second, Nippers; third, Ginger Nut. These may seem names, the like of which are not usually found in the Directory. In truth they were nicknames, mutually conferred upon each other by my three clerks, and were deemed expressive of their respective persons or... (more)

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for... (more)

The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic

The Story of My Life: The Restored Classic

by Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Dorothy Hermann

Finally restored to its original state, this is the most authoritative paperback version of Helen Keller's classic now available. The story of Helen Keller, who triumphed over deafness and blindness and became "a symbol of the indomitable human spirit," is now considered one of the "hundred most important books of the twentieth century" (New York Public Library). Yet the astonishing original version, first... (more)

Tarzan: Book 1

Tarzan of the Apes

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan of the Apes , by Edgar Rice Burroughs , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and... (more)

The Summerhouse

by Jude Deveraux

H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of CthulhuRoy Thomas, H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu

by Roy Thomas, H. P. Lovecraft

Dracula (Literary Touchstone Edition)

by Bram Stoker

This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Classic™ includes a glossary and notes to help the modern reader appreciate Stoker’s allusions, rich vocabulary, and Victorian setting. An apparently routine business venture becomes a battle for a young man’s very soul. Almost too late, Jonathan Harker realizes that the charismatic and seductive Count Dracula of Transylvania has come to England with a purpose much... (more)

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins

There, in the middle of the broad bright high-road -- there, as if it had that moment sprung out of the earth or dropped from the heaven -- stood the figure of a solitary Woman, dressed from head to foot in white garments, her face bent in grave inquiry on mine, her hand pointing to the dark cloud over London, as I faced her. I was far too seriously startled by the suddenness with which this extraordinary... (more)

The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Popular Classics)

The Diary of a Nobody (Penguin Popular Classics)

by George Grossmith, Weedon Grossmith

Mr Pooter's diary is a faithful record of the daily grind in respectable suburbia and the city office. It tells of his constant war against insolent tradesmen and impudent junior clerks, his incomprehensible son Lupin, and his over-whelming feeling that the biggest joke is on him.

A Study in Scarlet (Headline Review Classics)

A Study in Scarlet (Headline Review Classics)

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

'There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it'. Arriving in the wilderness of London and in need of lodgings, Dr John Watson finds himself living at 221b Baker Street with one Sherlock Holmes. When a corpse is discovered in a derelict house Watston, fascinated by his brilliant, eccentric companion, is... (more)

Moving PicturesTerry Prachett

Moving Pictures

by Terry Prachett

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Became Real(Christmas Edition)

The Classic Tale of the Velveteen Rabbit: Or, How Toys Became Real(Christmas Edition)

by Don Daily, Margery Williams

Courage picture books combine top-of-the-line illustrators with classic tales all at an unbelievable retail value. And now, Margery Williams beloved children's classic, The Velveteen Rabbit , is getting a makeover for the holiday season with a beautiful new festive cover for Christmastime. This edition illustrated by picture book great Don Daily still tells the precious story of the little rabbit stuffed in a... (more)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8)

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Book 1

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Today Show Book Club #8)

Never Deceive a Duke

by Liz Carlyle

Fairy Books: Book 3

Green Fairy Book

by Andrew Lang

From Lang's foreward: "The stories in all the <Fairy> books are borrowed from many coutnries; some are French, some German, some Russian, some Italian, some Scottish, some English, one Chinese. However much these nations differ about triffles, they all agree in liking fairy tales."

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

by Theodore Roosevelt

We of the great modern democracies must strive unceasingly to make our several countries lands in which a poor man who works hard can live comfortably and honestly- and in which a rich man cannot live dishonestly nor in slothful avoidance of duty; and yet we must judge rich man and poor man alike by a standard which rests on conduct and not on caste...' (Excerpt from original Introduction)