Features a collection of short stories by Guy de Maupassant that feature themes of social pretension, lust and love, and terror and madness. Includes a biography of Maupassant, an introduction, and the translator's note.
Presents the 1855 autobiography of Frederick Douglass, telling of his experiences as a slave and discussing his life after he was able to escape to freedom.
A novel about a young woman writer who spends a summer in Dunnet Landing, a Maine fishing village. Includes four additional stories also set in the village.
Anne Elliot, persuaded by family and friends that the charming and handsome Frederick Wentworth is not worthy of her regard, questions her decision to send him away until he returns seven years later, his circumstances much improved.
Miss Fanny Price, the poor relation of a wealthy family, possesses only natural goodness to aid her against a witty and lovely rival as they compete for the man they both love.
Presents seventeenth-century author Daniel Defoe's fictionalized account of what it was like to live in London in 1665 when the city was in the grip of plague.
Presents Stephen Crane's 1893 novel about Maggie, a beautiful young tenement girl whose life takes a downward spin when she becomes involved with Pete; and features additional writings by Crane, including "George's Mother" and other Bowery tales, and a selection of New York journalism.
McTeague, a quack dentist in late nineteenth-century San Francisco, remains friends with Marcus even after stealing Marcus's girlfriend, but things sour between them when Trina wins the lottery and refuses to share with anyone.
