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A nice edition of the Christmas classic that inspired The Nutcracker Ballet, complete with over 60 illustrations and flourishes.Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by Prussian author E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer ...

A nice edition with 100 illustrations from a 1876 edition.Old Christmas was published in book form in 1876. It contains the five Christmas stories in Irving's Sketch Book, where he portrayed an idealized celebration of old-fashioned Christmas customs at a quaint English manor. These depicted English Christmas festivities that he experienced while staying in England, which had largely been abandoned. Irving is credited with helping shape the Ch...

A nice edition with 50 illustrations from the first edition including 12 full page illustrations.The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It was illustrated by F. Y. Cory. The protagonist is a boy named Rob Joslyn. His age is not specified. Baum dedicated the book "To My Son, Robert Stanton Baum, " who was born in 1886 and would thus have been about fifteen at the time it ...

Campers can count on a lifetime of inspiration and instruction from this compilation of classic wilderness poetry, short prose, and essential outdoor survival information. Classics such as "The Cremation of Sam McGee, " "The Gettysburg Address, " and "Paul Revere's Ride" provide a thought-provoking complement to superb short works by Jack London and excerpts from Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic saga. Outdoor enthusiasts will further benefit from...

A collection of more than 340 unforgettable poems, this book includes such well-known favorites as "The Night Before Christmas, " "The Bridge Builder, " "If, " "Paul Revere's Ride, " "Old Ironsides, " and "O Captain! My Captain!" Selected for their rhyme, meter, and content, these poems tell stories, teach history, give advice, instill a reverence for nature, and inspire the mind. Comments are included with each poem, providing extra informati...

JavaScript has become the most popular programming language in the world. It has attained that position by being easy to use and powerful in its capabilities. It wasn't always that way but today it can be used to build virtually any application you desire. With the addition of HTML5 and CSS3, it allows for wonderfully animated and powerful web sites and applications without having to use other technologies such as Adobe Flash. JavaScript has a...

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island home of Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist who creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection. The novel deals with a number of philosophical themes, including pain and cruelty, moral responsibility, human identity, and human interference with n...

Offering a complete review of American history, civics, and culture with hundreds of illustrations.This unique collection provides both current and future citizens with the basics of the United States' common traditions and values to properly exercise their duties and obligations to vote responsibly. Amply illustrated and containing material not found in other sources, the book features a complete historical timeline of the United States, deta...

A nice edition of this Christmas classic by Charles Dickens includes 30 illustrations.The Cricket on the Hearth was published in 1845 in a version with illustrations by 5 artists. This edition uses illustrations from a 1900 version. It was one of Dickens' five Christmas books. It is divided into chapters called "Chirps", similar to the "Staves" of A Christmas Carol. It is the story of John Peerybingle, a carrier, who lives with his young wife ...

A nice edition of this Christmas classic with 20 original illustrations.The Chimes was first published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in Charles Dickens' series of "Christmas books, " five novellas with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840s. In addition to A Christmas Carol and The Chimes, the Christmas books include The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, and The Haunted Man an...

A special edition with 48 illustrations by Harry McVickar from an early edition.Daisy Miller first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. Da...

Some of Fitzgerald's most popular short stories. "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" was set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana. During a train ride, a young college student boasts that his father is "by far the richest man in the world", and boasts that his father "has a diamond bigger than the Ritz-Carlton Hotel." "Winter Dreams" is regarded as one of Fitzger...

A nice edition with 18 original illustrations.An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces) was written in 1897, in response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard the ship Halbrane to the South Pole. During their adventures, they find the source of strong magnetic fields, an Ice Sphinx. This edition conta...

The Beautiful and Damned, first published in 1922, is F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel. It explores and portrays New York café society and the American Eastern elite during the Jazz Age before and after the Great War in the early 1920s. As in his other novels, Fitzgerald's characters in this novel are complex, materialistic and experience significant disruptions in respect to classism, marriage, and intimacy. The work generally is considered...

Flappers and Philosophers is the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories: "The Offshore Pirate", "The Ice Palace", "Head and Shoulders", "The Cut-Glass Bowl", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair", "Benediction", "Dalyrimple Goes Wrong", "The Four Fists

The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 novel by the American author Owen Wister set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880's. It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch and is considered the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels. The Virginian paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour and several others. The Virginian is a ranch hand at ...

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. The book examines the lives and morality of American youth in the aftermath of World War I. Its protagonist Amory Blaine is an attractive student at Princeton University who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status seeking, and takes its title from a line of Rupert Brooke's poem Tiare Tahiti. The novel famously help...

A nice edition with 65 original illustrations.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was illustrated by Arthur Rackham and published in 1906. It is one of four major literary works by Barrie featuring Peter Pan. Most of the text originally appeared in Barrie's novel The Little White Bird. Peter is a seven-day-old infant who, "like all infants", used to be part bird. Peter has complete faith in his flying abilities, so, upon hearing a discussion of hi...

Tales of the Jazz Age is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald published in 1922. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". All of the stories had been published earlier, independently, in either Metropolitan Magazine (New York), Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Sunday Tribune, or Vanity Fair...