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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain and first published in 1885. Considered one of the great American novels, it is written in the vernacular and told in the first person by Huckleberry (Huck) Finn, best friend of Mark Twain's other famous creation, Tom Sawyer. The story follows Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave, as they drift down the Mississippi river on their raft. Through its depiction of the people and places a...

Tarzan of the Apes was written by Edgar Rice Burroughs and first published in novel form in 1914. It is the story of Tarzan, the son of a British Lord and Lady marooned on the West coast of Africa by mutineers. When Tarzan is a year old, his mother dies of natural causes, and his father is killed by Kerchak, leader of the ape tribe into which Tarzan is adopted. Tarzan meets a young American woman, Jane Porter, who along with her father and oth...

Frankenstein (also titled The Modern Prometheus but now generally referred to as Frankenstein), was written by Mary Shelley and first published anonymously in 1818. The title makes reference to one of the novel's main characters, a scientist named Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life. The monster itself has mistakenly been referred to as "Frankenstein", after its creator. The being Frankenstein creates is formed from pieces of bu...

The Vanishing of a Species? is a serious treatise exploring the past evolution, present predicament and possible future extinction of a particular species on planet Earth. The species is Homo sapiens. The threat to the species is Homo sapiens. The author, a former professor of geology and geophysics, starts his exploration by putting man in context, both in terms of space and time. We find that in either case, man is not as pre-eminent as ...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer presents the ultimate vision of boyhood. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous twelve-year-old boy living in the Mississippi River town of St Petersburg, Missouri with his Aunt Polly. Tom and his friend Huckleberry (Huck) Finn spend their days bouncing from one adventure to the next. Millions around the world have delighted in following Tom and his companions through their idyllic lives growing up in the America of yesteryea...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes presents the ultimate detective stories. Holmes is likely the world's best known fictional detective. Operating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he was a brilliant consulting detective, operating out of his home base on Baker Street in London, England. Holmes is famous for his powers of observation and deduction. He could always be called upon to crack the most difficult cases with the abl...

Dracula is the ultimate vampire story. It has it all, from a remote, eerie castle in Transylvania, to the strange nocturnal life of its inhabitant, Count Dracula. Plenty of blood, garlic, stakes to the heart and other details that have become staples of this horror genre. Dracula is written as a collection of realistic, but fictional, diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which add a degree of realism ...

The Count of Monte Cristo was written by Alexandre Dumas and first published in book form in 1844-45. It is a novel set firmly in history, with many key plot points based on external political events. The key figure in French politics during the first quarter of the nineteenth century was Napoleon Bonaparte, who, though he does not appear directly in the novel, plays such a significant role that he can almost be counted as one of the major cha...