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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 20000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne. The story of Captain Nemo and his incredible underwater machine, the Nautilus. A submarine of considerable modern content (mysterious secret power plants, able to sustain underwater travel for extraordinarily long periods of time, complete living quarters, etc.), ...

Hounds of the Baskervilles Hounds of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville stirs up a dangerous business. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of the family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night, and it appears that the new ...

At The Earths Core At the Earths Core,by Edgar Rice Burroughs. When David Innes and his inventor friend Abner Perry pierced the Earths crust in their Iron Mole, never did they expect to find a fantastic inner world of eternal daylight! A world where prehistoric monsters still live and ...

The Land that Time Forgot The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs. In 1916 the US Montrose is fired on and sunken by a German U-boat. However the survivors manage to sneak aboard and capture the U-boat. In between subsequent coups, the British and Germans agree to an ...

The War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells The Martians unchain a direct assault to our planet, with hundreds of invulnerable ships. The invasion takes place all over the world, and all the major cities are destroyed one after one; even the atomic bomb can't ...

The Picture of Dorian Grey The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde Innocent young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted by a close friend. Soon after, under the influence of amoral Lord Henry Wotton, he jilts his fiancee, leading to her suicide. This is the start of a life ...

Journey to the Center of the Earth A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne (1864) Prof. Lindenbrook leads his intrepid party on an expedition to the centre of the earth, via a volcano in Iceland, encountering all manner of prehistoric monsters and life-threatening hazards on the way.

The Lost World The Lost World, by Arthur Conan Doyle. Explorer Professor Challenger is taking quite a beating in the London press thanks to his claim that living dinosaurs exist in the far reaches of the Amazon. Newspaper reporter Edward Malone learns that this claim originates from a ...

Far From The Madding Crowd Far From The Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. In 19th c. Wessex, women are not supposed to be as independent as Bathsheba Everdene. Her willful behavior has unexpected results in the lives of three men who love her.

Life On The Mississippi Life on the Mississippi is Mark Twain's memoir of his youthful years as a cub pilot on a steamboat paddling up and down the Mississippi River. Twain used his childhood experiences growing up along the Mississippi in a number of works, including The Adventures of ...