This is a true "dime novel" from shortly after the turn of the twentieth century. Written for younger men, it is almost funny today, but well worth the read.

Jane Eyre, the story of a young girl and her passage into adulthood, was an immediate commercial success at the time of its original publication in 1847. Its representation of the...

The Lady Mary, the Lady Mary of England' the King said weightily and these last two words of his had a weight all their own, so that he added, 'of England' again, and then, 'will...

A scholar and explorer, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend professional hunter Richard Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African with the...

The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It is set after the Second Afghan War which ended in...

In 'The Fisherman and his Soul', a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. He...

This is a story about a fierce bad Rabbit, his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail, and his encounter with a nice gentle Rabbit.

Our narrator plots to murder an old man, though the narrator states that he loves the old man, and hates only his evil pale blue eye. The narrator insists that his careful...

Some of the best ghost stories including Count Magnus, Lost Hearts, Number 13, The Treasure of Abbot Thomas and many more from the master of haunted houses and terrifying accounts...

We follow Professor Challenger to a South American plateau in the Amazon basin where dinosaurs and other extinct creatures still survive. A legendary work of science fiction which...