During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese boy must free the «Man in the Box,» a captured American soldier, and bring him to safety. A powerful tale of friends in the midst of battle, «The Man in the Box» won the prestigious Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award in 1968. It remains as memorable today – and its message of compassion and friendship as fresh – as the day it was first published. Includes a Foreword by Ardath Mayhar from the 2006 ed ...
Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success following its publication in 1908. Anne, an orphaned girl, gave author Lucy Maud Montgomery a huge international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character, all of which are included in this volume (along with two collections of short stories in the same setting, some of which feature Anne). Titles included are:<P> Anne of Green Gables (19 ...
This volume assembles 46 classic works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, ranging from short stories to novels to poetry and essays. Included are: <P>THE JELLY-BEAN<BR> THE CAMEL'S BACK<BR> MAY DAY<BR> PORCELAIN AND PINK<BR> THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ<BR> THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON<BR> TARQUIN OF CHEAPSIDE<BR> "O RUSSET WITCH!"<BR> THE LEES OF HAPPINESS<BR> MR. ICK ...
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. This mammoth collection of her work assembles 28 novels and short stories, including many of her most famous works. Contained here are: <P> THE VOYAGE OUT<BR> NIGHT AND DAY<BR> JACOB'S ROOM<BR> ORLANDO: A BIOGRAPHY<BR> A HAUNTED HOUSE<BR> A SOCIETY<BR> BLUE & GREEN<BR> MO ...
The Frances Hodgson Burnett Megapack collects 40 classic works by the author of «Little Lord Fauntleroy,» «A Little Princess,» and «The Secret Garden.» Almost 5,000 pages of great reading! <P>THE SECRET GARDEN<BR> LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY<BR> A LITTLE PRINCESS<BR> THE LOST PRINCE<BR> A LADY OF QUALITY<BR> HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE <BR> THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER <BR> THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA < ...
"The Bjornstjerne Bjornson Megapack: collects 159 works by the great Norwegian author (and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature) – 24 prose works, 6 plays, and 129 poems – plus three critical introduction and a long introductory biography. Prose works include: <P> THE FATHER<BR> ABSALOM'S HAIR<BR> ARNE: A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life<BR> THE RAILROAD AND THE CHURCHYARD<BR> THROND<BR> A ...
The time: 1945. The place: Germany during the final days of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler. When Major John Carter and Sergeant Carson Napier discover a barracks at the Dachau concentration camp full of young, beautiful women being prepared as pagan sacrifices to the Norse god Odin, they embark upon a quest to defeat the German «priest» who's determined to reverse the course of the war–even at this late date. The key is finding Valhalla, t ...
Selma Lagerlof, author of the classic «The Wonderful Adventures of Nils» among many other works, was one of the great Swedish writers of all time. This volume assembled 31 of Lagerlof's classic novels and short stories. Included are: <P> THE EMPEROR OF PORTUGALLIA<BR> THE FLIGHT<BR> THE GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT<BR> THE SILVER MINE (version 1)<BR> THE AIRSHIP<BR> THE WEDDING MARCH<BR> THE MU ...
The horse has been championed throughout history as a war machine, a means of transport, an adjunct to farming, a source of popular entertainment, and, finally, as a true friend and companion. So it's no surprise that writers throughout history have featured the horse prominently in their fiction. Here are 25 stories and 5 poems of equine fiction and literature, from Anna Sewell's Black Beauty to classic tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ma ...
