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David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map in a pirate's chest in his parents' inn, he is drawn into a world of danger and adventure.

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

Set in the Civil War, the story of Henry Fleming, a raw Union army recruit eager to confirm his patriotism and prove his manhood.

Presents the original text of the Mark Twain story that relates the escapades of Tom Sawyer and his friends in a small, 19th-century town on the Mississippi River, and provides side notes, illustrations, and annotations that contain information on the history, geography, and social customs of the day.

The Story of one brave man's attempt to restore Richard The Lion- Hearted to the throne stolen by his evil brother, Prince John, Ivanhoe also depicts an unusual dilemma of love.

Presents Charles Dickens's classic novel set in London and Paris during the French Revolution and includes explanatory notes, an author chronology, a historical time line, a theme and plot outline, contemporary and modern critical analyses, discussion questions, and a list of related books and films.

A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers.

In 1815 Edmond Dant?s, a young and successful merchant sailor who has just recently been granted the succession of his erstwhile captain Lecl?re, returns to Marseille to marry his Catalan fianc?e Merc?d?s.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

"The second in the Leatherstocking tales "presents Chingachgook and his son Uncas as the last of the Iroquis aristocracy.

Presents the classic adventure novel in which Sir Percy Blakeney defies French revolutionaries in order to save innocent men and women from being put to death in the guillotine, and includes background information, a chronology of the author's life and work, explanatory notes, critical analyses, and other study aids.

The house of the Seven gables . . . cursed for more than two hundred years .

Presents Thomas Hardy's novel about a young woman who attempts to restore her family's fortunes, is seduced by a heartless aristocrat, and is punished by society's double standards when she gets a chance at real love; and includes an introduction and explanatory notes.