Aladdin is one of the most famous stories from the classic book Arabian Nights. In this tale, Aladdin finds a magic lamp that can make all his wishes come true, however an evil magician knows its power and wants to get his own hands on the lamp.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom f...
Based on the classic French fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast tells the story of Belle, an intelligent young woman scorned by her townspeople for being a bookworm, weary of fighting off the advances of the arrogant Gaston, and dreaming of escape. When her father gets lost in the woods and captured by...
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major f...
Abraham Lincoln, also known as "Honest Abe", was one of America's most prolific presidents, frontiersman, and statesman, known best as the man who freed the slaves. Before his heroic stand against slavery and heartbreaking assassination there is much to learn. Would you be surprised to know that the...
A novella by English author Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol tells the storyof sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. The book was written and published in early Victorian era Brita...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world (Wonderland) populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with ...
Far beneath the oceans, the Nautilus, a mysterious underwater intruder, embarks in a whirl of adventure...20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is Jules Verne's pioneering, nineteenth-century science fiction novel about the brilliant but strange Captain Nemo who has designed and pilots a gigantic submarine. ...
William Shakespeare portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom f...
A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Jules Verne tells the tale of Phileas Fogg and his faithful servant, Passepartout, as they embark on a journey into a world filled with danger and beauty. From India, where the heroic travelers ...