19th century

Story of Maria and her journey from Poland to New York, where she finds a job and rejoins her husband, Leo.

An adaptation of the classic novel in which young Tom Sawyer embarks on a series of adventures along the Mississippi River with his friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher, including witnessing a murder, looking for buried treasure, and whitewashing a fence.

Clym Yeobright, tired of Paris city life, returns to Egdon Heath to open a school. There he marries a pleasure-loving girl and tragedy follows.

A nineteenth-century French woman pursues her romantic dreams through a series of lovers.

Illustrates what life was like for cowboys, including information about their Spanish origins, the rise of America's cattle industry, as well as cattle drives and the famous trails ridden by cowboys.

Rhyming text tells of a sea serpent that plays off the coast of Massachusetts the summer of 1817, and is hunted upon its return the next year. Includes a page of facts upon which the story is based.

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.

An abridged version of the story of an orphaned young girl who becomes a governess to the child of Edward Rochester, the master of Thornfield Manor, and the heartache surrounding her love for him.

A complete, illustrated edition of Charles Dickens's tale in which a miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.