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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne. It was first published in French in 1864, then reissued in 1867 in a revised and expanded edition.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
After 18 years of imprisonment in the Bastille, the devoted Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter, the gentle Lucie, in England. There she captures the hearts of two very different men--Charles Darney, a banished French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a well-known English lawyer, both of whom must ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Famed for his illustrations of such classics as "Rime of the Ancient Mariner "and" The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," Willy Pogany created striking drawings for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in 1929. This splendid edition features numerous black-and-white images that offer a fresh accompaniment in the ...Show more
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Phileas Fogg is a creature of habit, a man who runs his life with clockwork precision. He knows when his shaving water is supplied two degrees cooler than it is meant to be; he knows exactly how many paces it is from his Savile Row home to the Reform Club; and he knows that it is perfectly possible to c ...Show more
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but long enough to see her only novel bec ...Show more
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Bram Stoker's bone-chilling vampire tale was not the first of its kind; the author was influenced by fellow Dubliner Sheridan Le Fanu's similarly-themed short story Carmilla, published in 1872, 25 years before Dracula. But it is the latter that stands at the pinnacle of this horror sub-genre. "We would ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persua ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
The Original Gothic-Horror Literary Classic! Mary Shelley's deceptively simple story of Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to life, first published in 1818, is now more widely read-and more widely discussed by scholars-than any other work of the Romantic period. From the creature's creation ...Show more
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Category: Classic | Series: Transatlantic Classics
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, ...Show more