While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune as well as great danger.

Jane Austen's classic comedy of manners is one of the most enduring love stories in English literature In a remote Hertfordshire village in the early nineteenth century, Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have a problem. Or rather, five vivacious, headstrong problems: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, and Lydia. Mr. Bennet loves his daughters dearly, but spends more time with his nose buried in a book than planning for their futures. Since her husband's property...

Presents James Joyce's vignettes of Irish life in fifteen stories on Dublin.

Epic poem recounting the experiences of Odysseus during his return from the Trojan War.

The tragic story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his attempt to win back the love of Daisy Buchanan.

Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.

Illustrates the well-known poem about an important Christmas visitor.

Emma Woodhouse's charitable intentions toward others are increasingly undermined by her supreme narcissism. Bent on improving the looks, manners, and marital prospects of the parentless Harriet Smith, a young boarder at a neighborhood school, Emma must suffer through a series of mortifying misunderstandings before she learns to stop meddling in the lives of others.

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.

The story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world--and did. This novel is the setting for the author's philosophy of objectivism.