RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Frederick Baron Corvo One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the...

Joseph Conrad With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain'Then the vision of an enormous town prented itself, of a monstrous...

Oliver Goldsmith The sweetness of a pastoral poem and the spice of a vivacious comedy mark the enduring charm of The Vicar of Wakefield. With artful skill and delicious humor...

Adam Bagdasarian Based on a true story, this tale tells of the struggles a young Armenian man living in Turkey had to go through during the Armenian Holocaust in the...

Gloria Repp Kuri's father plants their yams in the usual way, except for one thing. He does not pray to the spirits. He says, "Behold, God is mighty," and he...

Mark Twain   With an Introduction and Notes by Stuart Hutchinson, University of Kent at Canterbury.Tom Sawyer, a shrewd and adventurous boy, is as much at home in the respectable...

Henry Fielding This is the story of a good-natured footman's adventures on the road home from London with his friend and mentor, the absent-minded parson Abraham Adams.The novel represents the...

Bram Stoker   Take the papers that are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find the great Un-Dead, and cut off his...

Jonathan Miller and David Pelham An easy to understand, pop up book for teaching the facts of life for children. October 1, 1984 by Viking Adult OS

Reader's Digest Earth's Great Natural A breathtaking photographic essay with impressive pictures of gemstones, precious metals, industrial ores and rocks, soils and chemicals with short explanatory texts that describe how...

Ebria Feinblatt Shows nineteenth-century posters by Oliva, Feure, Bonnard, Grasset, Cheret, and Mucha January 1, 1986 by Los Angeles : County Museum of Art