Classics - Libros y biografía

When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the...

A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. It is also Burroughs' first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. He wrote it between July and...

Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World (1912) and Jules...

"The Chessmen of Mars" follows Tara of Helium as she is swept away by a Martian storm and finds herself in a region where headless bodies are controlled by brain-like creatures. She becomes a captive...

Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves -- but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following greedy...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) Widely considered one of the best novels ever written, Anna Karenina is the tragic...

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a "vulture eye". The murder...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The War of the Worlds (1898), by H. G. Wells, is an early science fiction novel which...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The classic science fiction novel with an exciting new cover design and a new introduction...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) In A Modern Utopia, two travelers fall into a space-warp and suddenly find themselves...

Golden Deer Classics publishes the greatest works of history's greatest authors and collects them to make it easy and affordable for readers to have them all at the push of a button. All of our collections...

L'équipe Golden Deer Classics est heureuse de vous proposer l'édition enrichie de Madame Bovary, oeuvre majeure de Gustave Flaubert, dotée de tables des matières actives. Découvrez ou redécouvrez l'histoire...

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran. In the book, the prophet Almustafa who has lived in the foreign...

"One of the comic gems of the English language." —Robert McCrum "[Jerome saw] that one of the funniest things a human being has is his conscience." —V. S. Pritchett Martyrs to hypochondria and general...

The third published novel of D. H. Lawrence, taken by many to be his earliest masterpiece, tells the story of Paul Morel, a young man and budding artist. Richard Aldington explains the semi-autobiographical...

Old acquaintances, made in the two other stories, reappear: Tars Tarkas, Tardos Mors and others. There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John Carter,...

Nightmare Abbey is a Gothic topical satire in which the author pokes light-hearted fun at the romantic movement in contemporary English literature, in particular its obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy...

Marilla Cuthbert and Matthew Cuthbert, middle-aged siblings who live together at Green Gables, a farm in Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as...

Mary Lennox is a sour-faced 10-year-old girl, who is born in India to selfish wealthy British parents who had not wanted her and were too wrapped up in their own lives. She was taken care of primarily...

Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing,...

"Mr. Brisher's Treasure" is a tale of a man who discovers a hidden box full of silver coins in his future in-laws' garden. As he tries to keep his find secret, he faces various comedic and nerve-wracking...

Professor Maxon performs secret experiments to make a "perfect race" of humans, finally succeeding with "Number Thirteen."

Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not prepared...

King Solomon's Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the Victorian adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led...

After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars -- an Eden...

"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being "The Murders in...

A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843; the first edition was illustrated by John Leech. A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer...

Discover the dark and captivating world of Carmilla—a gothic vampire novella that predates Dracula and defined the genre! In this haunting tale, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu takes readers into a mysterious...

With A to Z Classics, discover or rediscover all the classics of literature. Contains Active Table of Contents (HTML) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished...

Uncover the Mastermind's Secrets and Solve the Most Baffling Mysteries Venture beyond the pages and into the mind of the world's most renowned detective, Sherlock Holmes, as you embark on an extraordinary...