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With these stories, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, The Facts in the Case of M.

Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia.

Tells the story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and its aftermath as reported from a firsthand account.

Presents Roosevelt's firsthand narrative of the Spanish-American War.

In vigorous, frank, and powerful prose, Sherman reveals his strategic planning for battles such as Bull Run, Shiloh, and Vicksburg and delivers classic lessons--and military philosophies--about thi

A fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman.

The epic novel of the passsion between Madame de Renal and Julien Sorel. It is considered to be among the greatest literature of France.

Presents a fairy tale full of sweetness and whimsy, sympathy and tenderness, and merriment and poetry.

In 1874, Stevenson left Edinburgh for San Francisco to join his fiancee. A shrewd and sympathetic observer, he produced the best account ever written of the passage to the New World.

In 1815 in Scotland, having realized that the corpses he and his peers examine in anatomy class are stolen from fresh graves, a young medical student finds that he must procure the next specimen; a

Presents a Hawaiian couple who find themselves saddled with a genie in a bottle who is no bargain; and three other supernatural tales: Markheim; Thrawn Janet; and Olalla.

A recording of excerpts from the history written by Tacitus during the Julian line of Emperors in Rome.

Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie that was particularly devoted to his owners.

The author's travel narrative aboard a freighter bound for the Amazon in the winter of 1909.

The title story of this collection of short stories features the tale of the "most honest and upright" town of Hadleyburg, whose residents boast of their unsmirched moral character.