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A boy finds a poetry-loving dragon and befriends it, but the townspeople call St. George to slay it. A plot twist results in a happy ending.

Quatermain has lost his only son and longs to get back into the wilderness. Having persuaded Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good, and the Zulu chief Umbopa to accompany him, they set out from the coast of east Africa, this time in search of a white race reputed to live north of Mount Kenya.

Very similar to The Treasure Island.

A man is accused of murdering his father-in-law using an axe. He was motivated by the reluctance of his father-in-law to sell him a neighboring field and he thought that by getting rid of his father-in-law, he would be able to farm as he’d please…

The Quest of The Great Ruby...and my soul shall lie forever under the curse, engulfed and hidden as deeply as the Great Ruby beneath the shadow of Dead Man's Rock.

A selection of Zola's most popular stories including: "The Flood, "The Miller's Daughter," "Captain Burle," and "The Death of Oliver Becaille."

This is a great book about the life around Les Halles in 19th Century Paris. Download this FREE e-Book today!

The seventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart cycle, L'Assommoir (1877) is the story of a woman's struggle for happiness in working-class Paris.

The classic book, Germinal, by Émile Zola.

As the book opens, Fauchery, a drama critic, is waiting for the hottest play in Paris to open. "The Blonde Venus" has bad music and bad actresses, but a new star, Nana, who appears on stage clad only in a diaphanous wrap brings down the house anyway. Nana is an experienced concubine. She exploits...