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Heroine of Southern Idaho, in the time of the gold rush, rides to seek her lover.

Heathcliff comes to Wuthering Heights, a brooding mansion on the Yorkshire moors, as an orphan child. Cathy is the daughter of the wealthy family that takes him in. They are drawn together from the moment they meet, their love consuming, destructive, and full of desire. They cannot be together, and yet they cannot stay apart. The consequences will haunt generations. The book's core theme is the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have,...

Here is a presentation of two of the best-loved adventures of the most famous detective in the mystery tradition. Both of them are presented in their entirety. The adventures retold here are "A Study In Scarlet" in which the good Doctor Watson is first introduced to our hero by young Dr. Stamford; and "The Sign Of Four," a wild and fast-paced tale of lost treasure and four unlikely men who have signed a pact. The stories begin at 221B Baker Street.

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Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustively significant to the second half of the twentieth century as Joyce's Ulysses was to the first. Its sprawling, encyclopedic narrative and penetrating analysis of the impact of technology on society make it an intellectual tour de force.

Originally published in 1900, The Grey Fairy Book ushered in a new collection of timeless stories from diverse authors with large followings across the globe. Andrew Lang presents an elite selection of moral and ethics-based tales. Author Andrew Lang's The Grey Fairy Book is a compilation of 30-plus stories from around the world. It's a colorful display of morality tales featuring dwarfs, magicians and monsters. The book consists of popular children's...

Emma Woodhouse arrives home in Norfolk ready to embark on adult life. Not only has her sister, Isabella, been whisked away on a motorcycle up to London, but her astute governess, Miss Taylor is at a loose end, abandoned in the giant family pile, Hartfield, alongside Emma's anxiety-ridden father. Someone is needed to rule the roost and young Emma is more than happy to oblige. But there is only one person who can play with Emma's indestructible confidence,...

"Mary Smith and her friends live in Cranford, a town predominantly inhabited by women. The return of a long-lost brother named Peter is the most dramatic event to occur over the course of the sixteen tales that comprise the novel. Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cranford' is an ironic portrayal of female life in a secluded English village."--Page 4 of cover.

When Laura Ingalls finds work as a teacher, Almanzo drives her to her family's home on the weekends--and Laura soon finds herself falling in love in this full-color collector's edition of this Newbery Honor Book.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family moves from the claim shanty into town for the winter, a winter that an Indian has predicted will be seven months of bad weather.

Indifferent to the plight of France's downtrodden and pained by unrequited love for Lucie Darnay, London barrister Sydney Carton finds meaning through an act of sacrifice.