Serialized in 1930 and published in book form in 1931, Edgar Rice Burroughs’s A Fighting Man of Mars, the seventh novel in the Barsoom series, follows the young officer Tan Hadron...
John Carter, a former Confederate soldier, undergoes a mysterious experience in an Arizona cave and suddenly finds himself transported to Barsoom, where the planet’s lower gravity...
After Sola reveals the truth of her birth and her connection to Tars Tarkas, John Carter and his companions attempt to escape but are recaptured, and Carter is taken by the Warhoon...
Cooper describes Paris after the July Revolution through his conversations with Lafayette, examining the unstable government of Louis-Philippe, the relationship between monarchy an...
Entering Switzerland, Cooper travels from the Falls of the Rhine through Zurich, Einsiedeln, Lake Zug, the Brünig Pass, Lauterbrunnen, Grindelwald, Berne, and the region around Lak...
Mining heir David Innes and inventor Abner Perry test an experimental drilling machine only to lose control of it and descend some five hundred miles beneath the Earth’s surface, ...
Gleanings in Europe: England, Volume I is James Fenimore Cooper’s travel and social commentary on England, written from an American perspective and concerned not only with scenery...
Gleanings in Europe: England, Volume I is James Fenimore Cooper’s travel and social commentary on England, written from an American perspective and concerned not only with scenery...
Gleanings in Europe: France, Volume I opens as a series of personal travel letters in which James Fenimore Cooper leaves New York aboard the packet Hudson, records the practical re...
Gleanings in Europe: France, Volume II begins with James Fenimore Cooper’s encounters with celebrated figures such as Sir Walter Scott and expands into a wide-ranging American ass...
Gleanings in Europe: Italy, Volume I follows James Fenimore Cooper from Milan through Lodi, Piacenza, Parma, Modena, and Bologna to Florence and the Tuscan region, combining descri...
Gleanings in Europe: Italy, Volume II follows James Fenimore Cooper from Sorrento and Amalfi through Salerno, Paestum, Pompeii, and Naples, then onward by Caserta, Gaeta, and Terra...
