http://www.ebooks.com/Classic-LiteratureFeatured Classic Literature titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2012 Ebooks Corporation Ltd6/6/2012 8:58:06 PMhttp://www.ebooks.com/543838/classic-science-fiction-collection/various/20120606.5438386/6/2012 8:58:06 PMTable of ContentsList of Works by Author List of Works in Alphabetical Order Authors' BiographiesEdwin Abbott Abbott :: Edgar Rice Burroughs :: John Wood Campbell :: Raymond King Cummings :: Arthur Conan Doyle :: Tom Godwin :: Andre Norton :: H. Beam Piper :: Mack Reynolds :: Mary Shelley :: Edward Elmer Smith :: Jules Verne :: H. G. WellsEdwin Abbott AbbottFlatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsEdgar Rice BurroughsThe Chessmen of Mars The Gods of Mars The Land that Time Forgot The Mucker andhttp://www.ebooks.com/120632/slaughterhouse-five/vonnegut-kurt/20120606.1206326/6/2012 8:58:06 PMVonnegut's wildly imaginative, witty and affecting novel tells Billy Pilgrim's story in just that fashion. It spins back and forth through time, layering in the elements of Billy's life, which begins, chronologically, in 1922 in the upstate New York town of Ilium, and ends over 50 years later, when he is a successful middle-class optometrist with a wife and two grown children. Like Vonnegut himself, Billy was a World War II draftee and a prisoner of war in Dresden when the Allies firebombed the http://www.ebooks.com/130340/a-passage-to-india/forster-e-m/20120606.1303406/6/2012 8:58:06 PM Forster´s 1924 masterpiece, A Passage to India , is a novel about preconceptions and misconceptions and the desire to overcome the barrier that divides East and West in colonial India. It shows the limits of liberal tolerance, good intentions, and good will in sorting out the common problems that exist between two very different cultures. Forster´s famous phrase, 'only connect', stresses the need for human beings to overcome their hesitancy and prejudices and work towards realizing affehttp://www.ebooks.com/349854/north-and-south/gaskell-elizabeth/20120606.3498546/6/2012 8:58:06 PMNorth and South draws on Gaskell's own experiences of the poverty and hardship of life in the industrial north of England. Her heroine, Margaret Hale, is taken from the wealthy south by her nonconformist minister father, to live in a fictional northern town. The stark differences are explored through Margaret's abrupt change in circumstance, and her sympathetic reaction to the plight of the northerners. She comes into conflict with a local mill owner who proposes marriage to...http://www.ebooks.com/502276/three-men-in-a-boat/jerome-jerome-k/20120606.5022766/6/2012 8:58:06 PMThree Men in a Boat was meant to be a serious travel guide to the Thames, between Kingston and Oxford. Instead, it is one of the wittiest, funniest fictional jaunts down a river ever written. The three men are based on author Jerome and two of his friends. The dog "developed out of that area of inner consciousness which, in all Englishmen, contains an element of the dog."http://www.ebooks.com/563831/the-red-house-mystery/milne-a-a/20120606.5638316/6/2012 8:58:06 PMThe Red House Mystery is a classic "whodunit" set in an English country house. An eclectic cast of characters are gathered in the house when the owner's brother, recently arrived from Australia, is found murdered in a locked room. Two of the house guests take the investigation upon themselves and they wade almost playfully through the abundance of evidence and theories.http://www.ebooks.com/441254/the-sheik/hull-edith-maude/20120606.4412546/6/2012 8:58:06 PMThe Sheik is a book by Edith Maude Hull, an English novelist of the early twentieth century. It was her most popular and was the basis for the film of the same name. The novel opens in an hotel in the Algerian city of Biskra. A dance is being held, hosted by Diana Mayo and her brother. It transpires that Diana, who doesn't know what love is and doesn't want to know, is planning to go on a month long trip into the desert, taking no-one with her but the Arab guides...http://www.ebooks.com/193038/in-cold-blood/capote-truman/20120606.1930386/6/2012 8:58:06 PM National Bestseller  On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.  As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathhttp://www.ebooks.com/349905/a-tale-of-two-cities/dickens-charles/20120606.3499056/6/2012 8:58:06 PMA Tale of Two Cities is shorter and more compact than many of Dickens' novels and also more serious. Set in England and France during the French Revolution, it deals with ideas of grace and resurrection and explores the mob mentality of the Revolution. It is also a love story.http://www.ebooks.com/349901/persuasion/austen-jane/20120606.3499016/6/2012 8:58:06 PMWhen she was young and beautiful Anne Elliot fell in love with a dashing, but poor naval officer. Her family considered him beneath her and persuaded her to break off the match. Eight years later, when the novel begins, Anne is well past the bloom of her youth. Until Wentworth, now a celebrated captain, returns to the area to court her young neighour. Anne begins to slowly bloom a second time, though she hardly dares hope that he will return to her...http://www.ebooks.com/402659/the-war-of-the-worlds/wells-h-g/20120606.4026596/6/2012 8:58:06 PMCausing mass hysteria as listeners of its 1938 radio broadcast believed a Martian invasion of Earth really was taking place, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is perhaps the most famous novel of its genre. This 1898 story has spawned films, radio and television series and comic-book adaptions, and its popularity endures today.http://www.ebooks.com/409271/alice-in-wonderland/carroll-lewis/20120606.4092716/6/2012 8:58:06 PMAlice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.http://www.ebooks.com/349855/pride-and-prejudice/austen-jane/20120606.3498556/6/2012 8:58:06 PMMr and Mrs Bennet have five unmarried daughters. When the amiable Mr Bingly moves into the neighbourhood, Mrs Bennet therefore feels entirely sure that he is meant for one of her girls. Her eldest Miss Bennet captures his attention, but Mr Bingley's proud friend Mr Darcy does not approve the match and takes his friend away to London. Though not before losing his own heart to the second eldest, Lizzie. With an indolent father on one side and a nervous, ignorant mother on the other...http://www.ebooks.com/402655/the-picture-of-dorian-gray/wilde-oscar/20120606.4026556/6/2012 8:58:06 PMA beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton, who convinces him that only beauty is worth pursuing. Gray wishes that his portrait, and not himself, might age and show the effects of time. His wish comes true, and wild, hedonistic pursuits horribly disfigure the portrait. This Faustian story caused much controversy when it was first published, as it discusses decadent art and culture...http://www.ebooks.com/160852/the-joy-luck-club/tan-amy/20120606.1608526/6/2012 8:58:06 PMA stunning literary achievement, The Joy Luck Club explores the tender and tenacious bond between four daughters and their mothers. The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don't know about their earlier never-spoken of lives in China. The mothers want love and obedience from their daughters, but they don't know the gifts that the daughters keep to themselves.