Classic Starts (Sterling) — Multiple Authors

• Mar-2005
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A horse never knows who may buy him, or who may drive him . . . . When Black Beauty is just a young colt, his mother warns him that a horse's life is often difficult. And this strong, handsome horse soon meets with many adventures and all types of...

• Mar-2005
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Ever since Captain Billy Bones walked into the inn owned by young Jim Hawkins's parents, Jim was thrown into a whirlwind of adventure. That's because the captain brought with him not only a spyglass, a sea chest, and dreadful tales of murder, looting...

• Mar-2005
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King of the Wild Buck's teeth clamp on his rival's throat like the jaws of a steel trap. It's a fight to the death. Stolen from his home, whipped and brutalized, Buck quickly learns the harsh law of survival among the men and dogs of the gold-craz...

• Mar-2005
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The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping, their souls into their father's; and to both parents ... they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death...

• Mar-2005
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Here is a light-hearted excursion into boyhood, a nostalgic return to the simple, rural Missouri world of Tom Sawyer and his friends Huck Finn, Becky and Aunt Polly. It is a dreamlike world of summertime and hooky, pranks and punishments, villains an...

• Mar-2005
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"You don t want me because I'm not a boy! This is the most tragical thing that ever happened to me!" Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert had planned to adopt a boy to help out around Green Gables farm. But waiting for Matthew at the train station is freckl...

• Mar-2005
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The beloved adventures of Robin Hood come vividly to life in this wonderful illustrated version by Howard Pyle. Deep in Sherwood Forest, the legendary Robin Hood -- the brave, good-humored outlaw the whole world loves -- proves himself the best in En...

• Mar-2005
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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date),comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's b...

• Mar-2005
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He's rude, arrogant, cold, unfriendly, and easily bored. Nobody minds. Because he is a genius at solving mysteries. But, to interest Holmes at all, the case must be impossible. Like the mysteries of: the blackmail scheme that might destroy a natio...

• Mar-2005
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What secrets lie behind the doors at Misselthwaite Manor? Recently arrived at her uncle's estate, orphaned Mary Lennox is spoiled, sickly, and certain she won't enjoy living there. Then she discovers the arched doorway into an overgrown garden, shut ...

• Jan-2006
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Lemuel Gulliver always dreamed of traveling the world. But when a violent storm claims his ship and casts him adrift among uncharted lands, he is taken to places that he could not even dream of. Traveling to the nation of Lilliput, where the inhabita...

• Jan-2006
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Slavery was cruel, but it was the law. Huck Finn grew up along the Mississippi in the days of slavery. Huck was a homeless rebel -- a boy who loved freedom more than respectability. Huck isn't above lying and stealing but when he meets up with Jim...

• Apr-2006
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Victor Frankenstein didn't mean to make a monster. But when he builds a man out of dead body parts and brings him to life, he unleashes a horrible creature on the surrounding countryside. Can Frankenstein's monster be stopped?...

• Apr-2006
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Camelot is a mythical, mystical land filled with knights in armor, wily wizards, and beautiful damsels. It's in this magical setting that Arthur, the "once and future king," and his exalted Knights of the Round Table live, love, and battle their way ...

• Apr-2006
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Step into battle with Henry Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now he's a raw recrui...

• Apr-2006
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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as a "shilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores...

• Apr-2006
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Charles Dickes classic novel with biography, plot summary, character analysis and more. Oliver Twist is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who escapes f...

• Apr-2006
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THE SAVAGERY OF THE WILD He was three quarters wolf and all fury. Born in a cave, in famine, in the frozen arctic. Born in a world where the weak died without mercy, where only the swift, the strong, the cunning saw each dawn. It was White Fang's wor...

• Apr-2006
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The narrow panel had scarcely closed upon me when I was enveloped by profound darkness. A rapid shudder froze my very veins. A glorious mission to rid the seas of a monstrous creature becomes a terrifying nightmare when Professor Aronnax, Conseil ...

• Apr-2006
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A storm at sea ... a doomed ship . a sole survivor . . . here is Daniel De-foe's immortal tale of a young merchant seaman cast ashore on an uninhabited tropical island, destined to spend twenty-four years in isolated loneliness. But more than a story...

• Feb-2007
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She's the kind of girl everyone wants for a friend. When Rebecca Randall goes to live with her aunts in Riverboro, she doesn't know what to expect. Rebecca has six brothers and sisters back home at Sunnybrook Farm. Aunt Jane and Aunt Miranda live ...

• Feb-2007
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'Oh, Aunt Polly, I don't know how to be glad enough that you let me come to live with you!' As soon as the orphaned Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The...

• Feb-2007
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Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania for a business deal with a Romanian nobleman, only to find himself ensnared in the horrific world of Count Dracula, a mysterious man with an evil secret. Worst of all, the Count is now headed toward London -- a...

• Feb-2007
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They are the same age. They look alike. In fact, there is but one difference between them: Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. A chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothes--and roles with the...

• Feb-2007
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A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager -- he will travel around the world in eighty days or forfeit his life's savings. Thus begins Jules Verne's classic 1872 novel, which remains unsurpassed in sheer storytelling entertainment and...

• Feb-2007
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Enter a world of magical fantasy and enchanting wit as you follow the escapades of four very different friends and neighbors. Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger keep their animal characteristics as they go about their lives in the English countryside, but t...

• Feb-2007
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Perhaps the greatest “cloak and sword” story ever written, The Three Musketeers, first published ion 1844, is a tale for all time. Pitting the heroic young d’Artagnan and his noble compatriots, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis against the master of i...

• Feb-2007
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SHIPWRECKED! Four young boys and their mother and father are stranded on a tropical island. All the crew is lost. The Robinson family manages to save the animals and provisions from the wreck to start a new life on this deserted island. They buil...

• Feb-2007
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One day, an unknown flying object crashes to the ground in England. It is the harbinger of inconceivable events, in the course of which people have to recognize painfully that they are not alone in the universe. And it quickly becomes clear that the ...

• Feb-2007
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Left in the care of her grandfather after her parents' death, five-year-old Heidi thrives in her new environment until she is summoned to Frankfurt to serve as the companion to a crippled girl. Reprint....

• Feb-2008
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The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans the most popular of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales. Deep in the forests of upper New York State, the brave woodsman Hawkeye (Natty Bu...

• Feb-2008
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A huge inheritance turns Ceddie Errol, an impoverished New York City street kid, into Lord Fauntleroy, the heir to Dorincourt Castle and to the meanest earl in all of Britain. By the author of The Secret Garden. Reprint. ...

• Feb-2008
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor: these are just some of the strange and amazing stories that clever Scheherazade tells to captivate her husband, King Shahryar…and to save her own life. Each one is more fantastic than the ...

• Feb-2008
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The famous Doctor Dolittle can never say "no" to an adventure; but this one, to floating, Spidermonkey Island, may be his last! The natives have just crowned him king -- for life, and they'll never let him go, unless... What will Dolittle think...

• Feb-2008
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He lurked in the shadows of the Paris Opera House--a man with the voice of an angel but the face of a monster. His only hope for love is a beautiful soprano who draws him . . . to disaster. First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phant...

• Feb-2008
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Here is the exciting story of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves deep in the jungles of India. As he grows, he learns the language and ways of animals. Bagheera the panther befriends him, and Baloo the bear teaches him the lore of the jungle. He has adve...

• Feb-2008
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"As much a love letter to the cathedral as it is the story of two doomed lovers." -- Smithsonian Magazine Written in 1831, The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo is a beloved French gothic novel which centers around the wondrous Notre Dame Cathe...

• Feb-2008
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"The Adventures of Pinocchio" follows the heartwarming and magnificent tale of an old woodcarver who decides to create a boy out of wood and give him life. He names him Pinocchio. Many adventures and misfortunes to the animated doll and his "father" ...

• Mar-2008
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Deep inside the dreaded Bastille a twenty-three-year-old prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long, dark years. He does not know his real name or what crime he is supposed to have committed. But Aramis, one of the original Thre...

• Mar-2008
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The Time Machine is one of the best science fiction novels. H. G. Wells presented the sci-fi genre through this novel. The plot begins at a dinner party, where the Time Traveller is the host and explains to his guests how Time is just human-made. He ...

• Mar-2009
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With two young sons of her own, and twelve rescued orphan boys filling the unusual school at Plumfield, Jo March - now Mrs Jo Bhaer - couldn't be happier. But the boys have a habit of getting into scrapes, and their mischievous antics call for th...

• Mar-2009
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At sixteen Anne is grown up... almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan, she has earned the love of the people of Avon...

• Mar-2009
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One summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice. Dodgson often spun fairy tales on these boating trips to...

• Mar-2009
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James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan" is considered one of the greatest fantasy tales ever written. It is the story of a boy who wouldn't grow up. Follow Peter Pan with Wendy to Neverland and share in their adventures with the lost boys,...

• Apr-2009
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“To help mother”: that was the goal of each and every one of the five Pepper children. Yet even as “Mamsie” struggles hard to feed and educate her brood, she still manages to fill the house with joy. The adventu...

• Feb-2010
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No American masterpiece casts quite as awesome a shadow as Melville's monumental Moby Dick. Mad Captain Ahab's quest for the White Whale is a timeless epic--a stirring tragedy of vengeance and obsession, a searing parable about humanity lost in a un...

• Feb-2010
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Great Expectations is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mystery and a profound examination of moral values. Written at a time when Dickens' relationship with Victorian society had reached a crisis, this novel is peopled by characte...

• Feb-2010
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Here come the animals! From Rudyard Kipling’s most popular Just-So Stories to Jack London’s "Brown Wolf,” this collection features some of the best-loved animal tales of all time. They include Kipling’s "How the Elephant Got His Trunk”; Ha...

• Jun-2011
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From the moment a strange Icelandic parchment is discovered in an old bookseller's shop to the fantastic descent into the dark hollow heart of the earth itself, A Journey to the Center of the Earth is fiction at its very best -- a classic of science-...

• Jun-2011
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Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the immortal Brothers Grimm. Now, in the new, expanded third edition, renowned scholar and folklorist Jack Zipes has translated all 250 tales collecte...