Classic World Literature eBooks
The Jewel of Seven Stars
Classic World Literature, by Bram StokerThe Jewel of Seven Stars is a horror novel by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1903. The story is about an archaeologist's plot to revive Queen Tera, an ancient Egyptian mummy.
The King of the Dark Chamber
Classic World Literature, by Rabindranath TagoreTHE ORIGINAL BOOKS COLLECTION. Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly...
The Last Man
Classic World Literature, by Mary ShelleyA futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron, the novel offers a vision of the future that expresses a reaction against Romanticism, and demonstrates the failure of the imagination and of art to redeem the...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Classic World Literature, by Washington IrvingThe classic work of Irving
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton
Classic World Literature, by Daniel DefoeThe narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies who eventually makes his way to sea. One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, making it an intriguing if not...
The Longest Journey
Classic World Literature, by E. M. ForsterThe Longest Journey (1907) is a bildungsroman by E. M. Forster. Rickie Elliot is a student at early 20th century Cambridge, a university that seems like paradise to him, amongst bright if cynical companions, when he receives a visit from two friends, an engaged young woman, Agnes Pembroke, and her older brother, Herbert...
The Master of Ballantrae
Classic World Literature, by Robert Louis StevensonStevenson’s brooding historical romance demonstrates his most abiding theme—the elemental struggle between good and evil—as it unfolds against a hauntingly beautiful Scottish landscape, amid the fierce loyalties and violent enmities that characterized Scottish history. When two brothers attempt to split their loyalties between the warring factions of the 1745 Jacobite rising, one family...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Classic World Literature, by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Classic World Literature, by Edgar Allan Poe"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
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