Multimedia course focuses on thirteen literary classics from many different times and many different cultures. Each lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on a particular work. Read excerpts from each work and...

This is the full text of the English novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; this classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic literary works from famous authors. One book, originally published in German in 1812, is Johann David Wyss' Swiss Familiy Robinson. This English translation was book first published in 1814.

This resource includes the full text of a classic short story by Richard Malcolm Johnston, "The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard Malcolm Johnston." This story is part of the classic literature collection from Classic Reader.

This resource includes the full text of a classic short story by Rex Ellingwood Beach, "His Stock in Trade." This story is part of the classic literature collection from Classic Reader.

This resource includes the full text of a classic short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Hollow of the Three Hills." This story is part of the classic literature collection from Classic Reader.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, also called Over the Top with the Winnebagos, was the fifty-fifth volume from the "Camp Fire Girls" adventure series from...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author famously known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things," a piece from the early 1800's. This story was written by the French author named Honore de Balzac.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work, The Tin Woodman of Oz from the early 1900s, is the twelfth book from his "Oz" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1922, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the children's book, The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is a Convert of the Mission, a selection about the 1800s Wild West.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. New Chronicles of Rebecca is the sequel to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, was published in 1907, and was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "Common People," a piece from the 1800's. This story was written by the American author named T.S. Arthur, whose full name was Timothy Shay Arthur.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the fairy tale collection, The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1851, one work is The House of Seven Gables. This Gothic fictional work was written by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1887, one work is The Home Acre. This book was written by Edward Payson Roe.

This is the complete text of the British novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

This is the complete text of the novel The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by. Scott Fitzgerald including a brief synopsis.

This is the complete text of the British novel Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens.

This is the full text of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, a prose satire by this Irish writer and clergyman that is both a satire on human nature and the "travelers' tales" literary subgenre.

This is the full text of the book A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy, a collection of short stories. The stories are contained by a frame narrative in which ten members of a club each tell one story about a noble dame in the 17th or...

This is the complete text of the novel Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.