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No poem has ever received the kind of immediate and overwhelming response that Poe's "The Raven" did when it first appeared in the New York Evening Mirror on January 29, 1845. It made Poe an overnight sensation (though his great fame never brought him much wealth) and the poem, a powerfully haunting elegy to lost love, remains one of the most beloved and recognizable verses in the English language. The illustrations that accompany this Top Fiv...

The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Collodi (the pen name of Carlo Lorenzini) was first published in book form in 1883 in Florence, Italy, after its successful serialization in the weekly Giornale per i Bambini from July 1881 to January 1883. The story of an enchanted marionette who yearns to be a real boy, Pinocchio was an immediate sensation and has never gone out of print, having been translated into hundreds of languages and adapted to the s...

Any Other World Will Do presents an alien vision of Earth's possible future. It's a send-up of the genre that wraps its earnest warning in plausible deniability." -Foreword Reviews * 2022 Benjamin Franklin Award - Silver Winner * In a chance encounter on the overnight train from Paris to Barcelona, Vikram stumbles across a promising new recruit. Miles, an eighteen-year-old kid running away from a past he'd just as soon forget, is drawn to ...

This Top Five Classics edition of The Brothers Grimm Illustrated features 54 of the most beloved and well-known household tales from the Brothers Grimm, with more than 65 full-color illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Gustaf Tenggren, retold in modern English that retains the homespun, plain language of the original tales. Including favorites like "Hansel and Gretel, " "Little Red Riding-Hood, " "Rapunzel, " "Rumpelstiltskin, " "The Frog King,...

When I finished Unity Temple, I had it. I knew I had the beginning of a great thing, a great truth in architecture." -Frank Lloyd WrightEarly on the morning of June 4, 1905, lightning struck the steeple of Unity Church in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, igniting a fire that would raze the building to the ground. The Unitarian congregation suddenly needed a home and turned to local architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a new approach. Thus begins th...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights includes the complete, unabridged text, 12 starkly beautiful woodcut illustrations by renowned artist Clare Leighton (which were the inspiration for the sets of the classic 1939 Laurence Olivier-Merle Oberon film adaptation), as well as a helpful introduction, detailed author bio, and bibliography.Wuthering Heights was released in 1847 in the shadow of the instantly...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness..." In 1775 Doctor Manette is reunited with his daughter Lucie after having been locked away in the Bastille for 18 years. Lucie nurtures her half-mad father back to health, but their troubles are far from over, as their lives become entangled with Charles Darnay, the emigrant son of the Marquis St. Evrémonde, the ne'er-do-well Sydney...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."With every one of Jane Austen's novels still in print more than two hundred years after their initial publication, Pride & Prejudice remains her most beloved and enduring work.Elizabeth Bennet, the second oldest of five daughters, would already be married if her mother had anything to say about it. At twenty-one, she is headstr...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein includes all 65 hauntingly beautiful, moody, and subtly erotic woodcut illustrations by Lynd Ward from his 1934 edition, the unabridged 1831 text of the popular revised edition by Mary Shelley, a helpful introduction, and a detailed author bio.Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the foundational text of both the horror and science fiction genres, a classic that has been read...

The Hound of the Baskervilles, which saw the return of Sherlock Holmes eight years after his apparent death at the hands of his nemesis Moriarty, is often considered the greatest mystery novel in the English language. It became Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous work and launched an improbable and incredibly successful second act for the world's greatest detective.This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles includ...

Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring!" When Count Dracula welcomes Jonathan Harker into his ancient castle, perched amid Transylvania's Carpathian Mountains, the young solicitor is plunged into a nightmare that will test his mettle and his sanity. Dracula--as Harker, his fiancée Mina Murray, Lucy Westenra, her suitors, and Dr. Abraham Van Helsing will soon learn--is a dangerous and power...

The fairy tales of Charles Perrault-10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697-have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes that define the genre. Told with style, sophistication, and wry humor, Perrault's tales inspired writers and folklorists throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and were the basis for numerous popular adaptations, including the animated films of Walt Disney.Including all 10 of Perrault's fairy ta...

The fairy tales of Charles Perrault-10 timeless stories published from 1693 to 1697-have endured in the public imagination, becoming archetypes that define the genre. Told with style, sophistication, and wry humor, Perrault's tales inspired writers and folklorists throughout the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and were the basis for numerous popular adaptations, including the animated films of Walt Disney.Including all 10 of Perrault's fairy ta...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Treasure Island includes the original, unabridged text by Robert Louis Stevenson, more than 60 illustrations-all 17 paintings by N.C. Wyeth for the 1911 edition, 44 drawings by Louis Rhead from his 1915 edition, and, of course, a treasure map-Stevenson's essay, "My First Book: Treasure Island, " on the writing of his classic, a glossary of nautical and historical terms, and a helpful introduction, ...

This Top Five Classics edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland includes:• The complete texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass• John Tenniel's 92 original illustrations• The Hunting of the Snark, with Henry Holiday's 10 original illustrations• An informative introduction, author bio, and helpful notesOriginally written and hand-drawn from 1862 to 1864 by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) for 10-year-old Alice...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Treasure Island includes the original, unabridged text by Robert Louis Stevenson, more than 60 illustrations-all 17 color paintings by N.C. Wyeth for the 1911 edition, 44 drawings by Louis Rhead from his 1915 edition, and, of course, a treasure map-Stevenson's essay, "My First Book: Treasure Island, " on the writing of his classic, a glossary of nautical and historical terms, and a helpful introduc...

This Top Five Classics illustrated edition of Dickens' immortal holiday classic, A Christmas Carol, includes the original color illustrations by John Leech, as well as another 20 woodcut engravings by Sol Eytinge Jr. from the 1869 American edition by Ticknor & Fields. Beautifully designed and carefully edited, this hardcover edition also includes a short introduction and bio.Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old curmudgeon who spurns Christmas as a ...

This Top Five Classics edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland includes: • The complete texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass • John Tenniel's 92 original illustrations, including 35 in color • The Hunting of the Snark, with Henry Holiday's 10 original illustrations • An informative introduction, author bio, and helpful notes Originally written and hand-drawn from 1862 to 1864 by Lewis Carroll (Charles Do...

By the time Lucien Carr stabbed David Kammerer to death on the banks of the Hudson River in August 1944, it was clear that the hard-partying teenage companion to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and William S. Burroughs might need to reevaluate his life. A two-year stint in a reformatory straightened out the wayward youth but did little to curb the wild ways of his friends.MANIA tells the story of this remarkable group-who strained ...

The impressive first in a historical series, which effortlessly alternates between Washington, D.C., in 1862 and the same city 95 years later...this debut shows definite promise." -Publishers Weekly No one noticed anything suspicious about the death of a wounded soldier at the height of the Civil War-not, that is, until almost a hundred years later. In 1957, a young Washington, D.C. police sergeant, Ben Carey, heads up a team of officers in a ...