Mermaids Publishing: 27 books

“War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose...

Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic literature to a modern era of digital reading by producing high quality books in ebook format. All of the Mermaids Classics epublications are reproductions of classic antique books that were originally published...

"Moby-Dick or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael...

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by French writer Jules Verne (1828-1905) is a classic science fiction novel first published in 1870. “As the story begins, a mysterious sea monster, suggested by some to be a giant narwhal, is sighted by ships of several nations; an ocean liner...

“A Scots Quair is a trilogy by the Scottish writer Lewis Grassic Gibbon, describing the life of Chris Guthrie, a woman from the north east of Scotland during the early 20th century.” (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia) “It consists of three novels: Sunset Song (1932), Cloud...

“The Monk: A Romance is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis, published in 1796. A quickly written book from early in Lewis's career (it was written in ten weeks, before he turned 20), its convoluted and scandalous plot has made it one of the most important Gothic novels of its time, often imitated...

“Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and first published in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular in the poet's lifetime and it remains so today.” (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia)...

“Euripides' Electra was a play probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles' version of the Electra story.” (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia) “The play begins with the introduction of...

Four Plays of Aeschylus by Aeschylus (525bc-456bc) includes The Suppliant Maidens, The Persians, The Seven Against Thebes and The Prometheus Bound. Mermaids Classics, an imprint of Mermaids Publishing brings the very best of old classic books to a modern era of digital reading by producing...

Aristotle's Poetics (c. 335 BCE) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. (Citation from Wikipedia: The free Encyclopaedia) In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek...

“The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler that attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. Butler dared not publish it during his lifetime, but when it was published it was accepted as part...

"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" is an 1898 western short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Originally published in McClure's Magazine, it was written in England. The story's protagonist is a Texas marshal named Jack Potter, who is returning to the town of Yellow Sky with his eastern...

“Barren Ground is a 1925 novel by Ellen Glasgow giving an account of thirty years in the life of a rural Virginia woman, Dorinda Oakley who is an intelligent, independent and vibrant young lady who is trying find herself and her purpose in life by moving to New York after a love disillusion.”...

 “Lysistrata is a comedy by Aristophanes. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means...