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Sent to live with her crotchety grandfather in the Swiss Alps, five-year-old orphan Heidi immediately takes to her environment. Fearless, engaging, and independent, she befriends a young shepherd and his family and eventually softens the chilly nature of her caretaker. Johanna Spyri's classic novel depicts the irrepressible spirit of a young girl who, despite her hardships, trusts firmly in God's providence and genuinely attempts to better each life she encounters...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Passed in 1689 after the Glorious Revolution, this document formed the foundation for the English constitutional government. It succeeded in limiting the powers of the monarchy and established the rights of Parliament in relation to the Crown...

Elderly siblings Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert apply to an orphanage for a boy and instead receive spunky, free-spirited redhead Anne Shirley. An instant bestseller, Anne's adventures and antics have charmed generations. ..

Malthus warns of the dangers of overpopulation and discusses how, as humans continue to populate the Earth, the world's resources will dwindle and eventually run out. The most controversial aspect of this work is Malthus's view that starvation, poverty, and disease are necessary to keep human population in check...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

A sequel to Lewis Carroll's famed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass brings to life a curious new world that Alice finds after traveling through a mirror. On the other side, sensations, experiences and facts are reversed and, on her journey, Alice meets a new cast of now-legendary characters: Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum and a garden full of Talking Flowers, to name a few...

A Victorian scientist invents a time machine and travels to the year 802,701 A.D. There, he meets the Eloi, a group of dwarf-like creatures that descended from humans. They appear to live in a utopian society, where poverty does not exist and everything is peaceful. This illusion is shattered, however, after he meets the Morlocks, another race that descended from humans, who dwell in underground tunnels. The Time Machine, published in 1895, is regarded as one of the masterpieces of science fiction literature and won Wells immediate recognition. ..

Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale of the struggle between good and evil begins with an experiment gone awry, as Dr. Jekyll consumes a potion that allows his evil alter ego, Mr. Hyde, to emerge. Worried about Dr. Jekyll's sudden, erratic changes in behavior, Jekyll's friend and lawyer Mr. Utterson attempts to uncover the identity of Mr. Hyde...

Henry Fleming, a young man longing to experience the heroics of war, joins the army to fight in the U.S. Civil War. Once he is immersed in real fighting, his romantic ideas about battle vanish, and Henry struggles against the fear of dying, fear of the judgments of other men, and guilt when he runs from battle. He returns to the fight to overcome his fears and finds that, when tested, he does indeed possess courage and leadership. ..