Classics

Journey to the Center of the Earth (Extraordinary Voyages #3) by Jules Verne

The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano…

by ericarobbin April 25, 2020April 26, 2020

Canoeing in the Wilderness by Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau’s poetic yet realistic observations of the landscape are accompanied by his accounts of day-to-day events.

by ericarobbin March 29, 2020April 2, 2020

Voltaire Candide, or Optimism by Voltaire

Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in “the best of all possible worlds.”

by ericarobbin January 21, 2020April 2, 2020

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I.

by ericarobbin January 17, 2020March 8, 2020

Hawaii by James A. Michener

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga.

by ericarobbin August 29, 2019

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

The story of a mentally disabled man whose experimental quest for intelligence mirrors that of Algernon, an extraordinary lab mouse.

by ericarobbin May 9, 2019

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of In one of the most important and beloved Latin American works of the twentieth century, Isabel Allende weaves a luminous tapestry of three generations…