Over fifty stunning illustrations from acclaimed artist Christian Birmingham bring this treasured classic new life. When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends, and suffers from the cruelty and greed of his human masters. Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and...

A small squad of soldiers during WWII attempt to take out a German machine gun nest, while trying to stay alive.

Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rillian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.

As a man awaits execution for murdering his wife, he ells a series of hapenings where a cat exposes the murder of is wife.

On the eve of World War II in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, an exiled Irish schoolteacher becomes involved with Justine, the Jewish wife of a Coptic Christian

Bored with his easy life, a handsome young Englishman leaves for a European holiday. But what begins as a pleasant vacation soon turns into the adventure of a lifetime.

A visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse.

The only full-length novel by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" was first published in 1838. It is the story of a boy from Nantucket, Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship, the "Grampus", with the help of his friend Augustus, the ship captain's son. Pym and Augustus experience many unexpected adventures and misfortunes at sea, including mutiny, violent storms, cannibalism, and the destruction of the ship. Eventually,...

Presents the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie profoundly devoted to his Sunnybank master and mistress.

The story of the Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus.