Captains Courageous
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.73
Format: 256 pages,
Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the or…
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1. The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
By: Owen Wister , Gary Scharnhorst
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory… read more
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"Stand on your laigs you polecat, and admit you're a liar!"-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"For out of the eyes of every stranger looks either a friend or an enemy, waiting to be known."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Dr. MacBride had a manner of saying "pardon me," which rendered forgiveness well-nigh impossible."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
"Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader..."-Owen Wister, The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
2. Typhoon
By: Joseph Conrad
3.64
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Juke… read more
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"Fu qualcosa di formidabile e di subitaneo, come l'improvviso rompersi di un vaso colmo d'ira."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"He was a corpulent man, with a gift for sly chaffing, which to the end of his life he exercised in his intercourse with his son, a little pityingly, as if upon a half-witted person."-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
"Tale è la potenza disgregatrice di un uragano: essa isola l’individuo dai suoi simili. Un terremoto, una frana, una valanga soverchiano l’uomo incidentalmente, per così dire senza passione. La furia …"-Joseph Conrad, Typhoon
3. The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
By: Cecil Leslie , E. Nesbit
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
When their father's business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes… read more
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"If what we have written brings happiness to any sad heart we shall not have laboured in vain. But we want the money too."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this."-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
"Albert's uncle says I ought to have put this in the preface, but I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of th…"-Cecil Leslie, The Story of the Treasure Seekers (Bastable Children, #1)
4. She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.57
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
On his twenty-fifth birthday, Leo Vincey opens the silver casket that his father has left to him. I… read more
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"...For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Life is not worth the trouble of life, except when one in love."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
"Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."-H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure (She, #1)
5. Captains Courageous
By: Rudyard Kipling
3.73
Format: 256 pages,
Timeless Classics--designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the or… read more
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6. Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.79
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Tricked by the uncle who has stolen his inheritance, young David Balfour is kidnapped and bound for… read more
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"And life is all a variorum, at the best."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
"But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself."-Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
7. Little Lord Fauntleroy
By: Frances Hodgson Burnett , Reginald Birch
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885, 1886) by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a beloved children's novel that m… read more
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8. Beau Geste
By: P.C. Wren
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
French Legionnaires find one of their fortresses manned by dead men. Who could have done it? A flas… read more
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9. The Swiss Family Robinson
By: Arthur Pober , Johann David Wyss , Scott McKowen
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Hardcover
The Swiss Family Robinson (German: Der Schweizerische Robinson) is a novel by Johann David Wyss, fi… read more
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"It was one of those happy days that God grants us sometimes on earth to give us an idea of the bliss of heaven."-Arthur Pober, The Swiss Family Robinson
10. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more
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"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
11. The Ox-Bow Incident
By: Wallace Stegner , Walter Van Tilburg Clark
3.55
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incidentis a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violen… read more
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12. The Age of Revolution (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #3)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
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13. The New World (A History of the English Speaking Peoples, #2)
By: Winston S. Churchill
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Unknown Binding
Sir Winston Churchill's classic History of the English-Speaking Peoples; with an introduction by An… read more
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14. Burning Bright
By: John Steinbeck , None
4.16
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Written as a play in story form, this novel traces the story of a man ignorant of his own sterility… read more
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15. The Sea Wolf
By: Jack London
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
The novel begins when Van Weyden is swept overboard into San Francisco Bay, and plucked from the se… read more
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16. The Master of Ballantrae
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.93
Format: None pages,
Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North A… read more
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17. The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
By: Victor Davis Hanson
2.00
Format: None pages,
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18. The Black Arrow
By: Robert Louis Stevenson
3.80
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
From the beloved author of Treasure Island Originally serialized in a periodical of boys' adventure… read more
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"Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"He is one that goes to bed Lancaster and gets up York."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!"-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
"... and for the first time began to understand the desperate game that we play in life; and how a thing once done is not to be changed or remedied, by any penitence."-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow
19. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
By: Mark Twain
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels back… read more
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20. Under the Greenwood Tree
By: Thomas Hardy
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Under the Greenwood Treeis the story of the romantic entanglement between church musician, Dick Dew… read more
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21. Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
By: P.W. Singer
4.15
Format: None pages,
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