Twelve stories about animals, insects, and other subjects include "How the Whale Got His Throat," "The Elephant's Child," "How the Alphabet Was Made," and "The Butterfly that Stamped.".
A young Lithuanian immigrant arrives in America filled with dreams of wealth, freedom, and opportunity, but soon learns the truth of the workingman's lot at the turn of the century.
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret.
A horror story from the nineteenth century in which a scientist discovers the formula for "invisibility" which causes him to descend into madness and murder.
Presents Joseph Conrad's short novel in which Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his journey into the African jungle, and his encounter with a cruel white trader named Kurtz.
The orphaned Pip is serving as a blacksmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations.".
