Mr. Pickwick, a convivial old gentleman, resolves that he and three other "Pickwickians"-Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman-should travel beyond London to add to their experiences of the quaint and curious phenomena of life. The friends traverse the countryside of Georgian England, where their comic misadventures include an encounter with highwaymen, romantic entanglements, and a challenge to a duel. Best of all, they...

First serialized in "The Century Magazine" between 1893 and 1894, Mark Twain's "Pudd'nhead Wilson" is a murder mystery set before the American Civil War in Missouri, more specifically, in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. During infancy, a light-skinned black baby and a white-skinned baby were switched at birth by a slave mother. Because the black baby grows up thinking he is white, he is highly racist toward his slaves. The white baby,...

Ten Days That Shook the World is American journalist John Reed’s account of the Russian Revolution from November 7th through November 18th. Writing for an American socialist newspaper at the time, Reed experienced the events of the revolution first-hand, and the book conveys all the fervor, suspense and sheer raucousness of those fateful days. This edition includes the introduction written by Vladimir Lenin in the 1922 printing.