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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne - Penguin Books
Format: Hardcover

Jules Verne's timeless underwater adventure story in a stunning Hardcover Classics edition with the original illustrations In this thrilling adventure tale by the father of science fiction, three men embark on an epic journey under the sea with the mysterious Captain Nemo aboard his submarine,...
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The Call of the Wild, White Fang & To Build a Fire

Jack London - Modern Library
Format: Paperback

The Call of the Wild - Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeTo this day Jack London is the most widely read American writer in the world," E. L. Doctorow wrote in The New York Times Book Review. Generally considered to be London's greatest...
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Moby Dick

Herman Melville - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Elibron Classics series edition
Format: Book

Call me Ishmael.Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literaturethe voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequods captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump...
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The Count of Monte Cristo

Robin Buss - Penguin Classics; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful new clothbound edition of Alexandre Dumas' classic novel of wrongful imprisonment, adventure and revenge. Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of the Chteau d'If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure...
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The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle
Format: Hardcover

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales I; The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie

James Fenimore Cooper - Literary Classics of the United States
Format: Hardcover

The five novels in The Leatherstocking Tales (collected in two Library of America volumes), Cooper's great saga of the American wilderness, form a pageant of the American frontier. Cooper's hero, Natty Bumppo, is forced ever farther into the heart of the continent by the advance...
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain - Penguin Classics; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback

The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen and a foreword by Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and The Republic of ImaginationIn recent years, neither the persistent effort to "clean up" the racial...
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Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne - Signet Classics
Format: Print book

Jules Verne was a French novelist and is one of the most beloved writers with many tales that have been told over and over again in movies, theater and on TV. Many of his books have been kept in print since first publication as he has continued to greatly influence science fiction genre...
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Around the World in 80 Days

Jules Verne - Dalmatian Press
Format: Hardcover

In 1872, English gentleman Phileas Fogg has many adventures as he tries to win a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
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The Time Machine

Wells, H. G.

Wells's genre-defining novel of time travelWhen a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year a.d. 802,701, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment, and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descende
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