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Siddhartha

Herman Hesse (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423840

Siddhartha tells the story of a young Brahmin's search for reality after a meeting with the Buddha. This strange and simple story has resonated with millions of readers looking for enlightenment and a blend of Eastern mysticism and Western psychology.

Riders of the Purple Sage

Zane Grey (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423734

Riders of the Purple Sage is a classic of the Western genre. It is the story of Lassiter, a gunslinging avenger in black, who shows up in a remote Utah town just in time to save the young and beautiful rancher Jane Withersteen from having to marry a Mormon elder against her will.

Sir Gawain and the Lady of Lys

Jessie L. Weston (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423864

Gawain is unfailingly valiant, generous, and courteous, even, to excess. It is in truth Gawain and not Arthur who was the typical English hero. Ride with him now on one of his most gallant adventures!

Poor Folk

Fyodor Dostoevsky (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423628

Varvara Dobroselova and Makar Devushkin are two very poor neighbors. They are in love with each other and write letters to one another. They also exchange books, but their condition cannot allow them to marry. Makar is determined to change this and starts saving money. Will he succeed?

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

Anthony Trollope (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423871

Sir Harry is a wealthy man who has a son and a daughter. His fortune seems safe but when his son dies, his family title is under heavy threat. His only descendant is Emily who will inherit the estate yet lose the name Hotspur of Humblethwaite. There is a solution though: if Emily marries his cousin’s son, George Hotspur, the family title will survive. Is Sir Harry willing to take this deal?

Phantastes

George MacDonald (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423567

Imagine turning 21 and being dragged into a fantasy world full of perils and creatures that want to kill you. Imagine overcoming these dangers, going from villain to hero and beyond, loving and being deceived, helping and being helpless. Imagine waking up and everybody saying you’re gone for 21 days, though it felt like 21 years. How would you change your life?

Ralph the Heir

Anthony Trollope (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423703

Squire Gregory Newton of Newton Priory owns an estate which will be eventually inherited by his nephew, Ralph Newton after his death. Gregory has an illegitimate son by the same name as his nephew but he’s not legally entitled to his estate. Who will end up with the small fortune: Ralph the Heir or Ralph the Illegitimate?

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Kate Douglas Wiggin (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423710

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a delightful children's novel in the vein of Anne of Green Gables. Written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, it tells the story of a young girl (Rebecca) who goes to live with her two dour aunts. Rebecca injects joy into their lives and finds a way to keep her impoverished family afloat.

Sir Nigel

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423888

Nigel Loring is at a crossroads: his family was ravished by the Black Death and now the local monks have set their eyes on his family’s welfare. To make a name for himself, he joins the army of King Edward III of England. Can he restore the family’s pride and wealth?

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423635

This is a novel about manners by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of the British Regency.

Rowdy of the Cross L

B.M. Bower (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423772

A nice western novel from B.M. Bower - the adventures of cowboy Rowdy Vaughn who falls for schoolteacher Jessie Conroy. The problems start when Jessie’s brother turns out to be a good-for-nothing kind of guy who had done some nasty things to Rowdy in the past.

Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Anne Brontë (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423604

Although best-known for their novels, the Brontë sisters also left us a number of widely anthologised pieces of verse.

Roughing It

Mark Twain (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423765

As a teenager, Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, spent a great deal of his time traveling from town to town with his brother in the states of Nevada, California and the Sandwich Islands - currently known as Hawaii. Roughing It is about these adventures from gold digging and real estate speculation to find his true meaning and vocation as a writer and novelist.

Prosepine and Midas

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423642

A short collection of two mythological dramatic works. A combination of Mary Shelley's drama and Percy Bysshe Shelley's lyric poems. Midas and Prosepine are two plays that were written originally as children's literature.

Rilla of Ingleside

Lucy Maud Montgomery (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423741

Book 8 in the Anne of Green Gables series This book by Lucy Maud Montgomery focuses on Rilla Blythe, the youngest daughter of Anne and Gilbert. This novel is more serious in tone than many of the "Anne" books and is set during World War I, with many of the series' characters fighting in Europe.

Persuasion

Jane Austen (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423543

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel, and tells the story of Anne Elliot who is persuaded not to marry the love of her life because he is poor and without connections. When she encounters him eight years later, he has become wealthy and is determined to marry anyone but Anne.

Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France

Marie de France (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423253

Although she was born in France, Marie spent almost all her life in England, at the royal court of King Henry II, in the 12th century. There she wrote a series of rhymed fairy tales known as Breton lai or lays inspired from the ancient Greeks and Romans. Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France are a collection of 12 such poems written to both instruct and entertain the reader.

Michael Strogoff or, The Courier of the Czar

Jules Verne (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423284

Michael Strogoff, the brave courier, must warn the Governor-General of Siberia that the fierce Feofar-Khan is pouring his men into Siberia and fomenting rebellion. This is widely considered to be one of Verne's best novels.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423352

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an 1845 memoir and treatise on abolition written by a former slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the same period. The text describes the events of his life and is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature to fuel the abolitionist movement of the early 19th century in the United States.

Moby Dick

Herman Melville (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423307

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851) is a novel by Herman Melville considered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the American Renaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severed his leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failure and out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, its reputation as a Great American Novel grew during the twentieth century.

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423192

Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is a feminist novel set in 18th century England at a time when women were just mere assets to men. Having woken up in the wrong marriage, Maria tries to escape her husband, and instead is imprisoned in an asylum. There she meets warden Jemima, a woman abused as a child, and fellow inmate Henry Darnford, sane but living a chaotic life. Maria ends up falling in love with Henry preparing us for an open ending with many twists and turns.

North and South

Elizabeth Gaskell (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423376

Forced to move from the traditional south of England to the north to the industrialized Milton, Margaret Hale slowly but steadily learns the new ways of Victorian society. At first, she resents the town and its people. However, as time goes on, she gets more and more involved defending the working class and standing by them in their was against mill owner John Thornton, a member of the New Rich. Soon, the arguments between Margaret and John take an unusual turn.

Peter Pan

J.M. Barrie (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423550

Read the original adventures in Neverland! Join Peter, Wendy and all of the Lost Boys for J.M. Barrie's original adventure in Neverland.

Omoo

Herman Melville (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423451

Omoo is basically a fiction-driven adventure novel based on Herman Melville’s South Pacific seamanship experience. The novel is a sequel to Typee; this time, the action is set on the remote islands of Tahiti and includes mutiny, recruiting new members, facing cannibalistic local tribes and handling the mutineers. How will the story end?

Michael O'Halloran

Gene Stratton-Porter (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423277

Michael O’Halloran is the charming Gene Stratton-Porter novel of an orphaned newspaper seller who asks nothing of the world except to "be square". The book presents a vivid description of American life in 1914 and, though the characters suffer many hardships, the overall tone is so upbeat that it's easy to see why this book outsold "Pollyanna" in 1916. Stratton-Porter's skill as a naturalist make the country scenes especially vibrant. Her ear for dialog is unsurpassed showing the reader that, if life in America wasn't like this, it should have been. Readers of this book will be led to wonder if children and adults did speak this nicely to each other once upon a time, and if the world would be a better place if everyone could just "be square".