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"Who is this man, this scarlet pimpernel?" Each day this question grew more pressing to the rulers of the French Revolution. Only this man and his band of followers threatened their total power. Only this maddingly elusive fugre defied the vast network of fanatics, informers and secret agents the the Revolution spread out to catch its enemies. Some said this man of many disguises, endless ruses and infinite daring was an exiled French nobleman, returned...

A collection of short stories of Sherlock Holmes.

A collection of short stories in which Sherlock Holmes defies death and goes on to solve mysteries with his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson.

When the Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe, fleeing her brutish husband, her rebellious independence and passionate awareness of life stir the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, already engaged to be married to her cousin May Welland, "that terrifying product of the social system he belonged to and believed in, the young girl who knew nothing and expected everything." As the consequent drama unfolds, Edith Wharton's sharp ironic wit...

The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat,...

In Harry Haller, who considers himself half man, half wolf, as in civilized man of all ages, there is the conflict between nature and spirit. Newly revised translation of the novel.

Professor Challenger leads an expedition to explore an isolated plateau rising above the Amazon jungles where they discover dinosaurs, primitive ape-men, and prehistoric monsters. The Lost World, first published in 1912, tells the story of Professor Challenger, Professor Summerlee, adventurer Lord John Roxton, and reporter Ed Malone as they travel to a remote plateau in South America inhabited by dinosaurs, ape men, and prehistoric humans. In trying...

This is a classic tale of a house cursed through the centuries by a man hung for witchcraft, and haunted by the ghosts of its sinful dead, is now available in this special 150th anniversary edition that contains new supplementary material and a new afterword.

When reporter Kendall O'Dell agrees to help a co-worker find her Mexican relatives, who vanished after she'd paid to have them smuggled into Arizona, she travels to the secluded Guiding Light Mission in search of the only eyewitness - a terrified five-year-old Mexican boy who claims to have seen frightening creatures and unexplained lights in the sky.