Midwest Journal Press: 311 books
Johnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
About this book:
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known simply as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is...
Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
About this book: Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly...
Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
About this book: Les Misérables is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. In the English-speaking world, the novel is usually referred to by its original French title, which has not been successfully...
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
About this book: Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.
It tells the story of a plain governess (Jane) who, after early life difficulties,...
Charles Dickens' Great Expectations
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2013
About this book: Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is the second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth...
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
About this book: The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country...
Sun Tzu's Art of War
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book: The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The text is composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare. It is commonly known to be the definitive work on military...
Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
About this book:
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by French author Alexandre Dumas (père). Complete in 1844, it is one of the author's most popular works, along with The Three Musketeers. Like many of his novels, it is expanded from...
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book:
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England....
Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
About this book:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of World War I, in 1916, and first published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920.
Styles was Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot,...
H. G. Wells' The Time Machine
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
About this book:
The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in...
Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
About this book:
Heart of Darkness (1899), by Joseph Conrad, is a short novel about Charles Marlow’s job as an ivory transporter down the Congo River in Central Africa. This river is described to be “... a mighty big river, that you could see on the map, resembling an immense snake uncoiled,...
Carolyn Wells' Mystery Story Technique for Writers
A Midwest Journal Writers' Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Do you love mystery stories, such as the Sherlock Holmes stories and those of Edgar Allan Poe and Agatha Christie? Do you ever yearn to be a good writer of mysteries?
This is virtually a miniature course in creative writing of the mystery story.
Originally published in 1913, this was...
J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan
A Midwest Journal Writers Club Selection
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
About this book:
Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up or Peter and Wendy is J. M. Barrie's most famous work, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel, respectively. Both versions tell the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of...