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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.

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.

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.

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".

Master and Man

Leo Tolstoy (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423239

This is the story of Vasili Andreevich and his servant Nikita, trapped for the night in a snowdrift, struggling to survive against the gathering intensity of a storm.

Personal Reflections of Joan of Arc

Mark Twain (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423536

After the death of his family at just five years of age, Louis de Conte is sent to a small village to live with a priest. There he meets Joan of Arc, a young peasant girl who would change French history forever. Enchanted by Joan, Louis de Conte becomes her servant and also her biographer.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423444

This is the story of an orphan, Oliver, who endures a miserable existence in a poor house. He escapes and flees to London where he joins a gang of pick pockets.

One of Ours

Willa Cather (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423482

Claude tries to escapes from his family firm grasp who want him pious and working at their family farm in Nebraska. He marries in his attempt to escape only to realize that his wife is not interested at all in him. That’s when another opportunity arises: going overseas and fight for the American army in World War One.

Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423314

Moll Flanders tells the story of a woman's humble criminal beginnings to her transformation into a wife of a Virginia plantation owner. Daniel Defoe's tale is a vivid and entertaining novel.

Mathilda

Mary Shelley (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423246

This is the tale of young lonely girl who desperately wishes for a relationship with her absent father. When he finally returns after 15 years, Mathilda finds that his interest in her is beyond tragic. This novella is a perfect example of the period of Romantic literature and is filled with obsession, betrayal and crushing sadness.

Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423383

Northanger Abbey was Jane Austen's first novel and tells the story of the romantic, yet sometimes silly, Catherine who travels to Bath and lets her imagination run away with her. Filled with the wit and complexity that Austen is famous for, this is a classic romantic novel.

Monday or Tuesday

Virgina Woolf (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423321

Monday or Tuesday is a collection of eight stories crafted beautifully by Virginia Wolf. In all eight stories, the reader can witness ordinary people with extraordinary feelings that shape their mundane everyday life.

Mark Twain's Speeches

Mark Twain (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423208

Mark Twain's Speeches have delighted audiences for over one hundred years. Filled with wit and wry observation, these speeches are enjoyable to read and excellent examples of the way to entertain and persuade a crowd.

Martin Eden

Jack London (author)

Publisher: Xist Publishing ISBN: 9781532423215

An interesting, semi-autobiographical novel, this is the story about a struggling young writer who thirsts for knowledge, self-improvement, and to join the upper ranks of the intelligent and cultured within his society.