Cronos Classics - Libros y biografía

A triangle romance provides the basis for a questioning of the meaning of masculinity, as well as an examination of agribusiness in California. Jack London said of this novel: "It is all sex from start...

White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolfdog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story...

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is the second historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. It depicts the plight of the French proletariat under the...

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" these early works into three bound notebooks, now...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd...

This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will...

Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Jim Dillingham Young and his wife Della are a young couple who are very much in love with each other, but...

Perhaps as early as 1787, Austen began to write poems, stories, and plays for her own and her family's amusement. Austen later compiled "fair copies" of these early works into three bound notebooks, now...

Austen's "most wicked tale," Lady Susan is a short epistolary novel by Jane Austen, possibly written in 1794 but not published until 1871. Lady Susan is a selfish, attractive woman, who tries to trap...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn...

This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought...

Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in December 1815, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse, is described in the opening paragraph as "handsome,...

This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents. Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking...

The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. In 1859 Dickens founded a new journal called All the Year Round and the Uncommercial Traveller...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik, which tells...

This collection gathers together the works by Rudyard Kipling in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Madame Bovary scandalized its readers when it was first published in 1857. And the story itself remains...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Moby-Dick is an 1851 novel by Herman Melville. The story tells the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The story starts with a comet that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it....

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J. R. Kazallon, Passenger is an 1875 novel written by Jules Verne...

Great Expectations is a novel by Charles Dickens first serialised in All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. It is regarded as one of his greatest and most sophisticated novels, and is...

Left penniless by the death of his improvident father, young Nicholas Nickleby assumes responsibility for his mother and sister and seeks help from his Scrooge-like Uncle Ralph. Instantly disliking Nicholas,...

The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! "A Simple Heart", also called Un cœur simple or Le perroquet in French, is a story about a servant girl...

One might not necessarily think of Dickens as a mystery writer, but detectives and criminals do figure into much of his work. This...gathers a dozen of his stories featuring cops of one kind or another

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Here is one of those "forgotten" works. Ticket No. "9672" is a fascinating tale of two women who live in...