Treasureword Classics: 174 books

A classic work of fiction featuring Judge Priest, dramatic and compelling, using a wealth of precisely rendered detail to evoke a powerful mood.

The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally regarded as the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Walpole, by extension, is arguably the forerunner to such authors as Charles Maturin, Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and Daphne du Maurier.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic...

Benson's fictional memoirs of Arthur Hamilton of Trinity College, extracted from his letters and diaries, with reminiscences of his conversation by his friend Christopher Carr, first published anonymously in 1886.

An entertaining collection of stories and sketches of Cornwall and the outlying islands.

Includes the following classic ghost stories:    I. THE BECKONING FAIR ONE   II. PHANTAS   III. ROOUM   IV. BENLIAN   V. IO   VI. THE ACCIDENT   VII. THE CIGARETTE CASE   VIII. THE ROCKER   IX. HIC JACET

A classic Western novel by Max Brand. When a man's father is murdered, he follows the trail of the killer west.

A classic collection of short stories by Rex Beach.

In ancient Babylon and Persia, kings and queens are prominent. Darius the King fights rebels and Zoroaster, after revelation, seeks holy mysteries. Zoroaster began as a good-hearted prince, but meets defamation at the hands of an evil queen. His meditations bring powers greater than mortal man.

An entertaining story concerning various incidents at a school for girls. The competition for a school scholarship, which is won by unfair means, is the central incident.

A classic novel of the outdoors, by Stewart Edward White.

Will Warburton was George Gissing's last novel. It was published in 1905, three years after Gissing's death.    Will Warburton is a young gentleman of means, a man of commerce, who, losing everything in speculation, is forced into the life of a grocer, a thing he finds, at first, enormously tragic.

Primarily of the bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its title character, including her growth to adulthood, and her love for Mr. Rochester, the byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding...

A classic novel whose action is divided between the Swiss Alps and a series of sea voyages.