Frederick D. Ellsworth – författare

Seven years before Edgar Rice Burroughs sent John Carter to Barsoom, Edwin Lester Arnold sent a New York man to Mars on a magic carpet. He wakes on a dying world of decayed cities, listless golden people who have forgotten their own history, and a princess borne away on the river of the dead. It sold badly, Arnold never wrote another novel, and readers have argued ever since about how much the planetary romance owes to this strange, beautiful book. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 38 full-page color plates.

Eleanor H. Porter trained as a singer in Boston before she turned to fiction and gave the language 'Pollyanna.' In this middle Billy novel, the spirited heroine is engaged to Bertram - and every member of both families has a decided opinion, while a lovelorn composer, a managing sister-in-law, and a great deal of Boston propriety all take a hand. It is the book in which Porter's comic machinery pays off most sweetly. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 39 full-page color plates.

H. Rider Haggard, who raised the Union Jack over the Transvaal as a young man, drew on Boer and Zulu testimony gathered while the survivors still lived to write the earliest chapter in the life of his great hero, Allan Quatermain. At eighteen, Quatermain loves a Boer girl whose father will not have an Englishman - a love tested by siege, by the perils of the Great Trek, and by the horror of Retief's massacre at the hands of Dingaan. This edition presents Haggard's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates.

E. Phillips Oppenheim - who invented the international-intrigue novel and produced some hundred and fifteen of them - spins an elegant Edwardian thriller of diplomacy and death. A Japanese prince, the most charming man in London, stands at the center of an affair in which two men die and an alliance between empires hangs in the balance, while Inspector Jacks knows exactly who is responsible and can prove nothing. Unusually for its day, the prince is the most honorable person in the book. This edition presents the complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 48 full-page color plates.

One of Charles Dickens's most genial Christmas numbers. A pompous head waiter discovers a departed guest's luggage stuffed with manuscripts and, after seven scrupulous years, sells the lot to a publisher - Dickens's sly excuse for a garland of stories, among them 'His Boots,' one of the loveliest things he ever wrote about a child. This edition presents the complete and unabridged text, newly typeset and illustrated with 30 full-page color plates.

The finest and darkest of the Scarlet Pimpernel adventures. In the Paris of 1794, with the Terror at its height, Sir Percy Blakeney slips back into the city to smuggle the child Dauphin out of the Temple prison - but his enemy Chauvelin has at last found the one bait the Pimpernel cannot refuse, and springs a trap designed to break the man behind the mask. Suspenseful and unexpectedly moving, this edition presents Orczy's complete and unabridged novel, newly typeset and illustrated with 50 full-page color plates of the Revolution, David's among them.