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Cleopatra: Classics Illustrated (Classics To Go)
by H. HaggardSir Henry Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire. “Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis” is a novel written by the author H. Rider Haggard, the author of “King Solomon's Mines” and “She”. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Theology Philosophy and Religion for 13+ Revision Guide
by Michael WilcocksonThis indispensable revision guide is mapped precisely to the new Theology, Philosophy and Religion syllabus for 13+ Common Entrance, and provides students with a concise summary of everything they need to know for the latest exam beginning autumn 2019. Endorsed by ISEB, it covers all key content in an accessible format and includes test-yourself questions that embed knowledge as students work through the book.- Endorsed by ISEB- Summarises the key content for the new Theology, Philosophy and Religion syllabus replacing Religious Studies A- Guided activities and test-yourself questions enable pupils to recall knowledge and build exam-room confidence- Includes a handy glossary for easy reference throughout the book
Cleopatra Complete (Classics To Go)
by Georg EbersExcerpt: "If the author should be told that the sentimental love of our day was unknown to the pagan world, he would not cite last the two lovers, Antony and Cleopatra, and the will of the powerful Roman general, in which he expressed the desire, wherever he might die, to be buried beside the woman whom he loved to his latest hour. His wish was fulfilled, and the love-life of these two distinguished mortals, which belongs to history, has more than once afforded to art and poesy a welcome subject."
The Clergyman's Daughter (Classics To Go #Vol. 3)
by George OrwellA Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia. (Wikipedia)
The Clicking of Cuthbert: Revised Edition Of Original Version (Classics To Go)
by P. G. Wodehouse“The Clicking of Cuthbert” is a collection of ten short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, all with a golfing theme. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Club of Queer Trades: Large Print (Classics To Go)
by G. K. Chesterton"The Club of Queer Trades" is a collection of stories by Gilbert Keith Chesterton first published in 1905. Each story in the collection is centred on a person who is making his living by some novel and extraordinary means (a "queer trade", using the word "queer" in the sense of "peculiar"). To gain admittance one must have invented a unique means of earning a living and the subsequent trade being the main source of income. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Clue of the Twisted Candle: Large Print (Classics To Go)
by Edgar WallaceA vivid detective story. The scene is laid mainly in London but the motive power comes from Albania in the person of a young Greek, Remington Kara, who with his wealth, culture, and cruelty dominates the tale. He hates John Lexman, the novelist, because Lexman has married the woman he desired. By a subtly laid plot he effects Lexman's imprisonment for murder and also, by motor and aeroplane, his escape from jail. Lexman is carried off to a dungeon in Albania while his friend, T. X. Meredith, assistant commissioner of police in Scotland Yard, searches for him in vain. The denouement of the story turns on a woman, a Patagonian explorer, and a murder. (Amazon)
The Companions of Jehu: In English Translation (Classics To Go)
by Alexandre DumasThe Companions of Jehu were formed in the Lyon region of France in April 1795 to hunt down Jacobins implicated in the Reign of Terror. It is possible that they were founded by The Marquis de Besignan, who also founded royalist underground groups in Forez and Dauphiné with the Prince of Condé in 1796.[5] Their victims are believed to have numbered at least in the hundreds. They were made famous by the 1857 novel The Companions of Jehu by Alexandre Dumas which presented a highly romanticised account of them. (Wikipedia)
The Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers (Classics To Go)
by Georg EbersThe Complete Short Works of Georg Ebers features all five Short Stories by Georg Ebers: "In the Blue Pike", "A Question", "The Elixir", "The Greylock", and "The Nuts". Excerpt: ""May a thunderbolt strike you!" The imprecation suited the rough fellow who uttered it. He had pointed out of doors as he spoke, and scarcely lowered the strange tones of his voice, yet of all the rabble who surrounded him only two persons understood his meaning—a fading, sickly girl, and the red-haired woman, only a few years her senior, who led the swearing man by a chain, like a tame bear."
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Text Carefully Rev. , With Notes And A Memoir, Volume 1 (Classics To Go)
by Percy ShelleyMost of Shelley’s poetry reveals his philosophy, a combination of belief in the power of human love and reason, and faith in the perfectibility and ultimate progress of man. His lyric poems are superb in their beauty, grandeur and mastery of language.
The Convict: A Tale (Classics To Go)
by G.P.R. JamesExcerpt: "In a small high room of the oldest part of St. John's College, Cambridge, in a warm and glowing day of the early spring, and at about seven o'clock in the morning, there sat a young man with his cheek leaning on his hand, and his eyes fixed upon the page of an open book. There were many others closed and unclosed upon the table around him, as well as various pieces of paper, traced with every sort of curious figure which geometrical science ever discovered or measured. The page, too, on which his eyes were bent, was well nigh as full of ciphers as of words, and it was evident, from everything around, that the studies of the tenant of that chamber were of a very abstruse character."
Cool Air (Classics To Go)
by H. P. LovecraftWith this tale of horror set in 1923 New York City, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) touches on two subjects that, judging from the proliferation of films and novels spotlighting these peculiar topics, have continually aroused our human imagination: cryonics and zombies. (Goodreads)
The Coral Island: A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean (classic Reprint) (Classics To Go)
by R. M. BallantyneA teenaged boy that goes by "Ralph" is from a long family line seamen. As he gets older his desire for freedom on the sea grows. He is finally allowed to go to sea. He meets two other boys, Jack and Peterkin. Jack being older than Ralph, and Peterkin being younger than him. The three become best friends and are shipwrecked on a Pacific Island and are all alone to fend for themselves. They explore the island and start making it their home. As they do so, they start making surprising discoveries, and are almost always facing dangers. (Amazon)
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police A Tale of the MacLeod Trail (Classics To Go)
by Ralph ConnorWhen Ralph Connor (Rev. Charles William Gordon) first published "Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police A Tale of the MacLeod Trail" in 1912, he created the first great fictional Mountie hero. He based Allan Cameron on the real-life Sergeant William Fury, who alone faced down a mob in Kicking Horse Pass. His "I'll shoot the first man who takes one more step" became a staple in hundreds of later Hollywood Westerns. (Goodreads)
The Corsican Brothers: In English Translation (Classics To Go)
by Alexandre DumasThe Corsican Brothers (French: Les Frères corses) is a novella by Alexandre Dumas, père, first published in 1844. It is the story of two conjoined brothers who, though separated at birth, can still feel each other's pains. It has been adapted many times on the stage and in film. The story starts in March 1841, when the narrator travels to Corsica and stays at the home of the widow Savilia de Franchi who lives near Olmeto and Sullacaro. She is the mother of former conjoined twins Louis and Lucien. Louis is a lawyer in Paris, while Lucien clings to his Corsican roots and stays at his mother's home. The brothers were separated at birth by a doctor with his scalpel. Despite being separated, Louis and Lucien can still feel each other's emotions, even at a distance. Lucien explains he has a mission to undertake, with reluctance. He has to mediate in a vendetta between the Orlandi and Colona families and invites the narrator to accompany him and meet the head of the Orlandi family. (Wikipedia)
The Cossacks and Other Short Stories (Classics To Go)
by Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress.” This collection of ten of his best short stories include: The Cook's Wedding The Cossack The Darling The Death Of A Government Clerk The Dependents The Doctor The Duel The Examining Magistrate The First-class Passenger The Fish
The Cossacks: A Tale Of The Caucasus In 1852 (Classics To Go)
by Leo Tolstoy"The Cossacks" is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. Disenchanted with his privileged life in Russian society, nobleman Dmitri Olenin joins the army as a cadet, in the hopes of escaping the superficiality of his daily life. On a quest to find "completeness," he naively hopes to find serenity among the "simple" people of the Caucasus. In an attempt to immerse himself in the local culture, he befriends an old man. They drink wine, curse, and hunt pheasant and boar in the Cossack tradition, and Olenin even begins to dress in the manner of a Cossack. He forgets himself and falls in love with the young Maryanka, in spite of her fiancee Lukashka. While spending life as a Cossack, he learns lessons about his own inner life, moral philosophy, and the nature of reality. He also understand the intricacies of human psychology and nature. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Count of Monte Cristo: In English Translation (Classics To Go)
by Alexandre DumasThe book is considered a literary classic today. According to Luc Sante, "The Count of Monte Cristo has become a fixture of Western civilisation's literature, as inescapable and immediately identifiable as Mickey Mouse, Noah's flood, and the story of Little Red Riding Hood. (Wikipedia)
Counter-Attack and Other Poems (The World At War)
by Siegfried SassoonSiegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front,[1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. This collection of poems was first published in May 1918. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
A Country Cottage and Short Stories (Classics To Go)
by Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." This collection of ten of his best short stories include: A Bad Business A Blunder A Chamelion A Classical Student A Country Cottage A Daughter Of Albion A Day In The Country A Dead Body A Defenseless Creature A Doctor's Visit
A Country Doctor: Revised Edition Of Original Version (Classics To Go #499)
by Franz Kafka"A Country Doctor" is a short story written in 1919 by Franz Kafka. The plot follows a country doctor's hapless struggle to attend a sick young boy on a cold winter's night. A series of surreal events occur in the process, including the appearance of a mysterious groom in a pig shed. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
The Country Doctor (Classics To Go)
by Honoré BalzacDoctor Benassis is the title character in a poor village a few leagues from Grenoble. A chance visitor is enchanted with the small, exceedingly well-run village and intrigued by the unparalleled popularity of Doctor Benassis. Slowly he learns the history, not only of the village but of the man himself, including why he buried himself in such a remote area. (Goodreads)
A Country Gentleman and his Family (Classics To Go)
by OliphantExcerpt: "Theodore Warrender was still at Oxford when his father died. He was a youth who had come up from his school with the highest hopes of what he was to do at the university. It had indeed been laid out for him by an admiring tutor with anticipations which were almost certainties: "If you will only work as well as you have done these last two years!" These years had been spent in the dignified ranks of Sixth Form, where he had done almost everything that boy can do. It was expected that the School would have had a holiday when he and Brunson went up for the scholarships in their chosen college, and everybody calculated on the "double event." Brunson got the scholarship in question, but Warrender failed, which at first astonished everybody, but was afterwards more than accounted for by the fact that his fine and fastidious mind had been carried away by the Æschylus paper, which he made into an exhaustive analysis of the famous trilogy, to the neglect of other less inviting subjects. His tutor was thus almost more proud of him for having failed than if he had succeeded, and Sixth Form in general accepted Brunson's success apologetically as that of an "all-round" man, whose triumph did not mean so much. But if there is any place where the finer scholarship ought to tell, it should be in Oxford, and his school tutor, as has been said, laid out for him a sort of little map of what he was to do. There were the Hertford and the Ireland scholarships, almost as a matter of course; a first in moderations, but that went without saying; at least one of the Vice-Chancellor's prizes—probably the Newdigate, or some other unconsidered trifle of the kind; another first class in Greats; a fellowship. "If you don't do more than this I will be disappointed in you," the school tutor said."
The Courtship of Susan Bell (Classics To Go)
by Anthony TrollopeThis short story features a naïve nineteen-year-old called Susan who has led a sheltered life. Her mother is overprotective of her whilst her older sister tends to interfere where she isn’t needed. Therefore, when they take on a handsome young lodger, who falls in love with Susan, the courting ritual does not run smoothly. (Goodreads)
Cousin Henry: A Novel (Classics To Go)
by Anthony TrollopeCousin Henry is a novel by Anthony Trollope first published in 1879. The story deals with the trouble arising from the indecision of a squire in choosing an heir to his estate. One of Trollope's shorter novels, it has been called one of his most experimental. (Wikipedia)