In her room in Amherst, Emily Dickinson wrote some of the most remarkable poetry ever composed. Only a few of her verses were published in her lifetime, but now all her poems are read worldwide. Her beautiful visions and haunting words cast a brilliant eye on the world around us and the world within us all. From the landscapes of nature to the landscapes of the mind, Emily Dickinson captures life in all its details and desires.
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
The mysterious Transylvanian Count Dracula wreaks havoc on young businessman Jonathan Harker, his fianc?e Mina, and several others, and when he is revealed to be a vampire, he must be destroyed at all costs.
Presents Robert Louis Stevenson's classic horror tale in which a respected doctor who lives a secret double life begins losing his identity to his violent, evil side. Also contains three of Stevenson's short stories.
After he is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, a sixteen-year-old orphan escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule.
Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo.
Jane, a plain and penniless orphan in nineteenth-century England, accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall and soon finds herself in love with her melancholy employer, Mr. Edward Rochester, a man with a terrible secret.
Presents the classic novel by nineteenth-century French author, Alexandre Dumas, about a young sailor, Edmond Dantes, who seeks revenge on the three men who had him sent to prison.
Presents ten short stories by nineteenth-century American author O. Henry, including "The Last Leaf, " "Springtime a? la Carte, " and the title work about the Christmas sacrifices of a young married couple.
