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Presents excerpts chronicling one of the most colorful periods of the Restoration.

Presents the most tragic episodes in the history of Athens' decline: the trial and condemnation of Socrates.

Contains unabridged recordings of four selections from the book: Mark Anthony, Cicero, Theseus, and Romulus.

Presents a story of adventure and discovery on the high seas.

With these stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M.

Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia.

Tells the story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and its aftermath as reported from a firsthand account.

Presents Roosevelt's firsthand narrative of the Spanish-American War.

In vigorous, frank, and powerful prose, Sherman reveals his strategic planning for battles such as Bull Run, Shiloh, and Vicksburg and delivers classic lessons--and military philosophies--about thi

A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.

The epic novel of the passsion between Madame de Renal and Julien Sorel. It is considered to be among the greatest literature of France.

Presents a fairy tale full of sweetness and whimsy, sympathy and tenderness, and merriment and poetry.

In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.

In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen; a

Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.