Peter Pan--the mischievous boy who never grows up and can fly--has captivated the imagination of children and adults for decades with his adventures on the island of Neverland. Silke Leffler's ethereal art brings new magic to this class by legendary author J.M. Barrie.--Publisher's description.

"From "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Sherlock Holmes is famously outwitted by a woman, the captivating Irene Adler, to "The Five Orange Pips," in which the master detective is pitted against the Ku Klux Klan, to "The Final Problem," in which Holmes and his archenemy, Professor Moriarty, face each other in a showdown at the Reichenbach Falls, the stories that appear in The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes bear witness to the flowering of...

Contains a collection of short stories depicting the strange secret lives of the people of a small town from the perspective of both an old writer and eighteen-year-old George Willard, a reporter for the "Winesburg Eagle."

John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian characters and incidents -- the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas...

"London's classic 'alcoholic memoirs'--the closest thing to an autobiography he ever wrote--are a startlingly honest and vivid account of his life not only as a drinker, but also as a storied adventurer... John Barleycorn stands as the earliest intelligent treatment of alcohol in American literature..."--P. [4] of cover.

When the Cuthberts adopt a child, they expect a boy. To their surprise, an imaginative, impulsive red-haired girl arrives instead. Green Gables will never be the same again. Join Anne on her many adventures on Prince Edward Island in this much-loved story from Lucy Maud Montgomery. Presented in a beautiful slipcase edition featuring brand-new illustrations by Luisa Uribe, this classic tale of mischief, romance, and friendship is sure to delight readers...

"This harrowing tale of a young girl in the slums is a searing portrayal of turn-of-the-century New York, and Stephen Crane's most innovative work. Published in 1893, when the author was just twenty-one, it broke new ground with its vivid characters, its brutal naturalism, and its empathic rendering of the lives of the poor. It remains both "powerful, severe, and harshly comic" (in Alfred Kazin's words) and a masterpiece of modern American prose."...

The personal recollections and correspondence of Helen Keller, supplemented by the reports of her teacher Annie Sullivan, reveal the problems and obstacles that she surmounted in overcoming her handicaps.

A retelling of the medieval poem about a group of travelers on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the tales they tell each other. With their astonishing diversity of tone and subject matter, The Canterbury Tales have become one of the touchstones of medieval literature. Translated here into modern English, these tales of a motley crowd of pilgrims drawn from all walks of life-from knight to nun, miller to monk-reveal a picture of English life in the fourteenth...