A sixteen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

A collection of ten short stories reflecting various aspects of American life at the turn of the nineteenth century.

In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.

The novel that first made Willa Cather famous, O Pioneers! is a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman. No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. Alexandra Bergson, one of the great heroines of American literature, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's...