Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. He himself claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Gulliver's Travels, whose full title is Travels...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- An unknown girl given to a stranger, a deserted Abby, secret chambers, bones, a cruel Marquis, the handsome stranger, The Romance of the Forest is a romance novel and adventure in one. A guilty pleasure for young girls whose imagination has a tendency to run wild. What evil lurked each time they took the carriage out? What unknown spirit lived within the forest? Radcliffe's descriptions of nature and her creation of an admirable, attractive heroine make this book memorable. The elements of...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- An unknown girl given to a stranger, a deserted Abby, ...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate and his wife, in San Diego, California. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Harvey can neither persuade them to take him quickly to port, nor convince them of his wealth. Disko Troop, captain of the schooner We're Here, offers him temporary membership in the crew until they return to port, and Harvey later accepts. Through a series of trials and...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Protagonist Harvey Cheyne, Jr., is the son of a wealth...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Man is a romantic novel by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, written in 1905. It has also been published under the title The Gates of Life.The Man is a novel from the Victorian era of British history and culture. The Victorian Era was the period during the reign of Queen Victoria, from her coronation on 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The Victorian era is known for its long period of peace, prosperity, and national pride for the British...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Man is a romantic novel by Bram Stoker, the...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack London, serialized in 1906 and 1907 in Everybody's Magazine. It is the story of a man who dreams he lives the life of an early hominid Australopithecine. The story offers an early view of human evolution. The majority of the story is told through the eyes of the man's hominid alter ego, one of the Cave People. In addition to the Cave People, there are the more advanced Fire People, and the more animal-like Tree People. Other...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Before Adam is a historical novel by Jack Lo...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr., as the name implies, is a story about a boy. Through some conspiracy, the hero of the story when a baby, was taken from his relatives and given into the care of a kind woman. Not knowing his name, she gave him her husband's name, Frank Fowler. She had one little daughter, Grace, and showing no partiality in the treatment of her children, Frank never suspected that she was not his sister. However, at the death of Mrs. Fowler, all...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Frank Fowler, the Cash Boy by Horatio Alger, Jr...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is an 1883 novel by the American illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Consisting of a series of episodes in the story of the English outlaw Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, the novel compiles traditional material into a coherent narrative in a colorful, invented "old English" idiom that preserves some flavor of the ballads, and adapts it for children. The novel is notable for taking the subject of Robin Hood, which had been increasingly popular...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood is an 1883 n...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a sea voyage in August 1651, against the wishes of his parents, who want him to pursue a career, possibly in law. After a tumultuous journey where his ship is wrecked in a storm, his lust for the sea remains so strong that he sets out to sea again. This journey, too, ends in disaster, as the ship is taken over by Sale pirates (the Sale Rovers) and Crusoe is enslaved by a Moor. Two years later, he escapes in a boat with a boy named Xury; a...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Crusoe sets sail from the Queen's Dock in Hull on a se...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Defoe published the follow-up to his best-seller Robinson Crusoe just five months after the first book hit the streets, in a surprisingly modern marketing effort to cash in on the name recognition. Surprisingly modern, that is, given that both books were published in 1719, just one hundred years after Shakespeare and the King James Version of the Bible set the standard for the English language for the next 300 years. The book starts with the statement about Crusoe's marriage in England....
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Defoe published the follow-up to his best-seller Ro...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Finish what you start. Follow through. Pay attention to the little details that affect the major things (the things other people ignore). Do what others are not willing to do. Don't waste time. Sharpen your focus. Study. Be courageous. These tidbits and more are covered in the process to succeed. Marden fills the pages with excellent stories from his day about success and how men of the era made successful lives out of following simple tenets for success. Quotes from famous names abound which color...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Finish what you start. Follow through. Pay attention t...
