FICTION / Classics from YJS BOXES OF BOOKS

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde.] It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll,and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the… Read more about this item

New York, Scribner and Sons, 1912 Edition, 5 volumes Kidnapped- St. Ives- Merry Men and Other Tales and Fables and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hide- Treasure Island- The Wrecker. All in good condition, all have Ex-Libris on inside front cover, all have frontispiece and protective tissue ,some shelfwear, some bumped covers. Merry… Read more about this item

Pasternak is best known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the First World War. Due to the novel's independent-minded stance on the socialist state, Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR. At the instigation of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago was smuggled to Milan and published… Read more about this item

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman. (Wiki). Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the Hartford Female Seminary and an active abolitionist, featured the character of Uncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave… Read more about this item

Translation by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustrations by Stefan Beltzig. The Patience of Maigret is a 1965 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret searches for evidence that an old nemesis of his is behind a series of jewel robberies. Maigret believes the ageing gangster is organising a gang from his apartment. However, when the gangster… Read more about this item

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass,[1] revising it multiple times until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first a small book of twelve poems and the… Read more about this item

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With… Read more about this item

Beige cloth with wraparound vignette of famiilies moving out of the Midwest. Author's famous novel of the dust bowl and the Great Depression in an unusual edition. Mr. Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1940 for this novel, and later was presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature. ---

Pollyanna is a best-selling 1913 novel by Eleanor H. Porter that is now considered a classic of children's literature, with the title character's name becoming a popular term for someone with the same very optimistic outlook. The book was such a success that Porter soon produced a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books",… Read more about this item

Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth.… Read more about this item

Artwork by Disney animators accompanies the story of Quasimodo, the lonely hunchback, who proves his devotion to Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy

True Grit is a 1968 novel by Charles Portis that was first published as a 1968 serial in The Saturday Evening Post.[1] The novel is told from the perspective of a woman named Mattie Ross who recounts the time when she was 14 years old and sought retribution for the murder of her father by a scoundrel namedo physicl damage… Read more about this item

EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY Translated from the original MS. by Mark Twain [NOTE. I translated a portion of this diary some years ago, and a friend of mine printed a few copies in an incomplete form, but the public never got them. Since then I have deciphered some more of Adam's hieroglyphics, and think he has now become sufficiently important… Read more about this item