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A Dream of John Ball explores human equality and the extinction of socioeconomic classes. It was first published as a serial in The Commonweal between November 13, 1886, and January 22, 1887. The paper took as its special charge proletarian education and organization, publishing political news, fiction, poems, and songs with working-class themes, Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A Man of Means is a collection of six short stories that first appeared in the United Kingdom in 1914 and in the United States in 1916. The stories all feature Roland Bleke, a young man for whom success comes far too easily and for whom financial success is a mixed blessing. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (1863-1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist, the counterpart to France's Alexandre Dumas (author of The Three Musketeers). Best known today for his novel The Prisoner of Zenda, he published A Man of Mark, his first novel (a political satire), in 1890. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Elnora finds comfort and inspiration through the flora and fauna of the Limberlost Swamp Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Must-read classic from the brilliant French economist and philospher.

One morning- when I had gone out to see a friend- I suddenly received the news that twenty Red soldiers had surrounded my house to arrest me and that I must escape.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

Possibly George Macdonald's best-known fantasy, At the Back of the North Wind has enchanted children and adults for more than a century. A landmark in the development of children's writing, this insightful and enthralling fairy tale is just as enchanting today as when it was first published. Modern readers will thrill to the adventures of little Diamond with the mysterious and majestic North Wind, who is both kind and terrible, and who seems t...

The classic inspirational masterpiece, with excerpts on the power of thought from William Walker Atkinson.

Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She meets a rich, handsome bachelor, chases a cow, and wins a writing contest. Refusing Gilbert Blythe's marriage proposal, she begins teaching at Kingsport Ladies' College, an exclusive girls' school, where she runs into trouble with another teacher, Miss Brooke, and the Pringle clan (who turn out to be the family of the rich, handsome bachelor). Anne...

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote an eyewitness account of life in ancient Egypt-one of the few such histories available. Discover for yourself the strange and remarkable customs of one of the most magnificent of civilizations.

A collection of wonderful articles, poems, and stories by that master of comedy and complications, P. G. Wodehouse, the author of My Man Jeeves. Includes "Some Aspects of Game-Captaincy, " "An Unfinished Collection, " "The New Advertising, " "The Secret Pleasures of Reginald, " "My Battle with Drink, " "In Defense of Astigmatism, " "Jeeves Takes Charge, " and much more! Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion P...

A 17th-century work by a Portuguese priest who spent nine years as a missionary in Abyssinia. This unique work of both travel and religious writing examines the customs, dress, and hospitality of a truly ancient and alien civilization.

Anne Shirley, once a mischievous orphan at Green Gables, has turned eighteen and is going to faraway Redmond College in Kingsport. Her college years are sure to be full of fun, but they will also be a time for life-changing decisions. When Gilbert Blythe proposes, Anne feels they can never be more than friends. But Anne has a new admirer: the handsome and wealthy Roy Gardner. Is he the man of her dreams? And should she follow her dreams, even ...

The first novel in the classic Mars series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

Published in 1896, A Monk of Fife is a first-person narrative of the adventures of a young Scot in France with Joan of Arc from 1429 to 1431. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 6-by-9-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

A firsthand account of insanity and recovery.

The Conquest of Canaan is the story of social pariah Joe Louden, who as a young man is the subject of much gossip and malignment in the small Midwestern city of Canaan. His fiercest opponent is Judge Pike, the richest and most powerful man in town. In spite of his poverty, Joe begins studying law in his spare time, eventually leaving town to work his way through law school. Returning to Canaan, he begins practicing law, handling the unpopular ...