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The Song of Hiawatha is an epic verse of life in America before the coming of Europeans, written by one of our country's most notable poets. In creating the story of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth...

Join the bard at his bawdy best in one of his most popular comedies. Fearing that no man will marry his quick-tempered daughter Katherine, the wealthy Merchant Baptista declares that she must wed...

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - The Time Machine was first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two theatrical films of the same name,...

The Upanishads are some of the world's most important works of spiritual literature, presented here in an accessible form by an early ambassador of Vedantic teaching. Swami Paramananda's translations...

The Upanishads are some of the world's most important works of spiritual literature, presented here in an accessible form by an early ambassador of Vedantic teaching. Swami Paramananda's translations...

The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle is a high-seas adventure of exploration, shipwreck, derring-do, and of course, talking animals. The animals talk because Doctor Dolittle is no ordinary doctor. He has...

The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - When an army of intelligent aliens from Mars touches down in Victorian England and threatens to destroy the civilized...

The Woman Who Did, by Grant Allen - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - The Woman Who Did is Grant Allen's controversial tale of rebellion and its aftermath. It follows Herminia Barton, a young...

The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, by L. Frank Baum - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Experience L. Frank Baum's most famous and fabulous story in its original form. Dorothy and her dog Toto live on...

In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates engages a young geometry student in a conversation about the nature of knowledge. Beginning with the idea of knowledge as sensory perception, and then looking at...

In Plato's Theaetetus, Socrates engages a young geometry student in a conversation about the nature of knowledge. Beginning with the idea of knowledge as sensory perception, and then looking at...

Some people like to distance themselves from the animal world - not so Clarence Day Jr. In this witty collection, Day muses on our similarities with our ape cousins and how our simian blood affects...

Three Men on the Bummel is the story of a Victorian bicycle trip gone wrong - then wrong and wrong again! A group of British gentlemen attempt a cycling expedition in Germany's Black Forest...

From the creator of Tarzan comes another swashbuckling tale set on the weird and wonderful world of Mars. Prince Carthoris of Helium is the half-human son of the hero John Carter. When Carter rescued...

Timaeus is a work of dramatic scope, presenting a view of the world as Plato knew it. Beginning with an account of the origins of the universe and ending with an exploration of human health and...

Timaeus is a work of dramatic scope, presenting a view of the world as Plato knew it. Beginning with an account of the origins of the universe and ending with an exploration of human health and...

Is loyalty to the state worth everything? Titus Andronicus, Rome's most honored general, has led twenty-one of his sons to their death on battlefields, fighting for Rome, even killing one for, in his...

Is loyalty to the state worth everything? Titus Andronicus, Rome's most honored general, has led twenty-one of his sons to their death on battlefields, fighting for Rome, even killing one for, in his...

When identical twins wash upon the shore of Ilyria confusion, mistaken identities and misplaced infatuations are sure to follow in this delightful comedy. The shipwrecked twins Viola and Sebastian,...

When identical twins wash upon the shore of Ilyria confusion, mistaken identities and misplaced infatuations are sure to follow in this delightful comedy. The shipwrecked twins Viola and Sebastian,...

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is the original - and still the greatest - undersea adventure. Ships are being attacked by a strange sea monster. Professor Aronnax joins an expedition to stop...

In what is perhaps Shakespeare's earliest play, love goes astray, deception and betrayal cause confusion, and a multilayered plot keeps the pace energetic and joyful. Proteus and Valentine are each...

In what is perhaps Shakespeare's earliest play, love goes astray, deception and betrayal cause confusion, and a multilayered plot keeps the pace energetic and joyful. Proteus and Valentine are each...

Two Years in the Forbidden City, by The Princess Der Ling - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Gain a fascinating glimpse into the vanished world of imperial China with Two Years in the...

Two Years in the Forbidden City, by The Princess Der Ling - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Gain a fascinating glimpse into the vanished world of imperial China with Two Years in the...

This collection of tales by Howard Garis featuring the much-loved Uncle Wiggily has been enchanting children for generations. Uncle Wiggily is the uncle we all would like to have - a kindly gentleman...

This collection of tales by Howard Garis featuring the much-loved Uncle Wiggily has been enchanting children for generations. Uncle Wiggily is the uncle we all would like to have - a kindly gentleman...

Utopia, by Thomas More - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London. After...

Vedanta means 'the end of the Veda.' It is also the name for India's most profound system of philosophy. In this book, based on a lecture given in 1901, Swami Abhedananda concisely and vividly...

Walden is a timeless record of one man's inner journey in the great outdoors. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau set out on a personal experiment that was as simple as it was profound. For two years, two...