A Classic Manual for Building Log Cabins, Forest Shelters, and Cabin Furniture This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Building With Logs is full of old-time tips and methods from the forest experts on how to build log cabins, shelters, houses, and buildings with the natural materials fro...

For early American households, the herb garden was an all-purpose medicine chest. Herbs were used to treat apoplexy (lily of the valley), asthma (burdock, horehound), boils (onion), tuberculosis (chickweed, coltsfoot), palpitations (saffron, valerian), jaundice (speedwell, nettles, toad flax), tooth...

The classic adventures of one of American literature’s most beloved characters from Mark Twain, one of America’s best-loved writers. Here is a lighthearted excursion into boyhood, a nostalgic return into the simple, rural Missouri world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Becky Thatcher, and A...

Part of the Timeless Classics series,  The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every known tale written by the famous gothic American writer. Poe’s often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include “The Raven,” “The Black Cat,” ...

From the time of its discovery, the new world was regarded by American settlers as a new Eden and a new Jerusalem. Although individual pioneers' visions of paradise were inevitably corrupted by reality, some determined ideatists carved out enclaves in order to develop collective models of what they ...

Introduction by Frank Conroy Commentary by William Dean Howells, Athenaeum, The Illustrated London News, and Hartford Christian Secretary   Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s  The Great American Read This irresistible tale of the adventures of two friends g...

Illustrations and descriptions of all antique furniture from the European backround (English and French), american classics (Pilgrim and William and Mary, Queen Anne and Chippendale, Federal), the age of Victoria, and Country and painted furniture (Early American, Windsor, Shaker)...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick's epic tale of two families wrestling with questions of loyalty, liberty, and love during the American Revolution, with an introduction from New York Times bestselling author Margot Livesey. At the dawn of the American Revolution, young Isabella Linwood is poised to marry...

Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants....

Stephen Crane’s immortal masterpiece about the nightmare of war was first published in 1895 and brought its young author immediate international fame. Set during the Civil War, it tells of the brutal disillusionment of a young recruit who had dreamed of the thrill and glory of war, only to find hi...

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Sparkling with mischief, jumping with youthful adventurousness, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer is one of the most splendid re-creations of childhood in all of literature. It is a lighthearted romp, full of humor and...

“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” —  New Republic Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up in Columbus, Ohio, with the same humor and sharp wit that def...

Henry Fleming dreams of the thrill of battle and performing heroic deeds in the American Civil War. But his illusions are shattered when he comes face to face with the bloodshed and horrors of war. Now he's a raw recruit, Henry experiences both fear and self-doubt. Will war make Henry a coward or a ...

An epic rendition of the imperial experience in India, one of Kipling's greatest works A Penguin Classic Kim, orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor white mother, and the lama, an old ascetic priest, are on a quest. Kim was born and raised in India and plays with the slum children as he liv...

Tom Sawyer is sure to find trouble wherever the river leads him in this timeless classic full of laughter, daring escapes, and unforgettable friendships! On the banks of the Mississippi River, Tom Sawyer and his friends seek out adventure at every turn. Then one fateful night in the graveyard they...

For twenty years I had been perfectly comfortable; for twenty years I had had the window-boxes filled in the spring, the carpets lifted, the awnings put up and the furniture covered with brown linen; for as many summers I had said good-bye to my friends, and, after watching their perspiring hegira,...

2022 Reprint of Two Books Published in One. Facsimile of the Two Original Editions and Not Reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. How to Build and Furnish a Log Cabin is a compilation of two of Ben Hunt's out-of-print classics: Building a Log Cabin, published in 1947, and Rustic Construction,...

The three-volume woodworking "bible": master the foundational skills, hybrid techniques, and design principles you need to build furniture that lasts a lifetime. For decades, master craftsman Tage Frid has been the gold standard in woodworking instruction, revered worldwide as the "Dean of American ...

Sometimes our greatest moments of enlightenment come from our worst mistakes. When life supplies eleven-year-old Tommy Grant with some unfavorable circumstances intruding on his otherwise tranquil life in rural 1980's Ohio, he retreats into the spell-binding Order of Cosmic Champions. When he disco...

The author of such modern classics as The Bald Soprano, Exit the King, Rhinoceros, and The Chairs, Eugène Ionesco is “one of the most important and influential figures in the modern theater” (Library Journal). This crucial collection combines The New Tenant with Amédée and Victims of Duty—the...