|
COVER •
Contents •
< PREV Page •
NEXT Page> •
Book Notes
CLASSICS CLUB Book List
Continued
-
Book: The Lost Continent
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...
Since earliest childhood I have been strangely fascinated by the mystery
surrounding the history of the last days of twentieth century Europe. My
interest is keenest, perhaps, not so much in relation to known facts as
to speculation upon the unknowable of the two centuries that have rolled
...
Read more!
-
Book: Lost Face — And Other Stories
By Jack London
...
It was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and
horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther
away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased. He sat in the
snow, arms tied behind him, waiting the torture. He stared curiously
...
Read more!
-
Book: The Lost World
By Sir Arther Conan Doyle
...
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,
-- a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured,
but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have
driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such
...
Read more!
-
Book: The Mad King
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
...
ALL LUSTADT was in an uproar. The mad king had escaped. Little knots
of excited men stood upon the street corners listening to each latest
rumor concerning this most absorbing occurrence. Before the palace a
great crowd surged to and fro, awaiting they knew not what.
...
Read more!
-
Book: The Man In The Iron Mask
By Alexandre Dumas
...
Since Aramis's singular transformation into a confessor of the order,
Baisemeaux was no longer the same man. Up to that period, the place which
Aramis had held in the worthy governor's estimation was that of a prelate
whom he respected and a friend to whom he owed a debt of gratitude;
...
Read more!
-
Book: The Man In Lower Ten
By Mary Roberts Rinehart
...McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten,
I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you can
build up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three
entirely different people ...
Read more!
-
Book: Mansfield Park
By Jane Austen
...
About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven
thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of
Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised
to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences
...
Read more!
-
Book: The Man Who Knew Too Much
By G. K. Chesterton
...
"it will be more legal for us to leave the body as it is until
the police are informed. In fact, I think it will be well if nobody
except the police is informed. Don't be surprised if I seem
to be keeping it dark from some of our neighbors round here."
Then, as if prompted to regularize his rather abrupt confidence,
he said: "I've come down to see my cousin at Torwood;
my name is Horne Fisher"
...
Read more!
-
Book: Meditations
By Marcus Aurelius
...
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was Marcus Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa, second King of Rome. Thus the most religious of emperors came of the blood of the most pious of early kings.
...
Read more!
-
Book: Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
...
"I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat
down together to our breakfast one morning. Go! Where to? To Dartmoor; to King's Pyland."
...
Read more!
-
Book: Merton of the Movies
By Harry Leon Wilson
...
Would you like to know," the ad demanded, "if you are adapted to this work? If so, send ten cents for our Ten-Hour Talent-Prover, or Key to Movie-Acting Aptitude, and find whether you are suited to take it up." Merton had earnestly wished to know this . . . and at last the cheering news had come. He had every aptitude in full measure, and all that remained was to subscribe to the correspondence course
...
Read more!
-
Book: Moby Dick — Or, The Great White Whale Volume One Of Three
By Herman Melville
...
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long precisely -- having
little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me
on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part
of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating
...
Read more!
-
Book: Moby Dick — Or, The Great White Whale Volume Two Of Three
By Herman Melville
...
Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his
thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick;
though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one
passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long
...
Read more!
-
Book: Moby Dick — Or, The Great White Whale Volume Three Of Three
By Herman Melville
...
It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most
significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew;
an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes
madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying
...
Read more!
All these books are yours when you join the Classics Club!
—
And you've not finished yet — there's more!
Join The Classics Club Now!
COVER •
Contents •
< PREV Page •
NEXT Page> •
Book Notes •
Top
|
BookStore