One of H.G. Wells' most visionary tales, "The Island of Dr. Moreau" relates the disturbing tale of Pendrick, a shipwrecked naturalist who unwittingly discovers a horrific scientific and social experiment that is creating a mutant race of hideous creatures, half-human and half-beast. Terrifying and s[...]
The world's beloved fables from history's most famous storyteller get the Classics Illustrated treatment! Eric Vincent's richly detailed paintings breathe new life into favorite tales like "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse," "The Fox and the Grapes," and "The Tortoise and the Hare." A charming i[...]
"McTeague" is the story of a poor dentist scraping by in San Francisco at the end of the 19th century, and his wife Trina, whose $5,000 lottery winning sets in motion a shocking chain of events. Few works have captured the seamy side of American urban life with such graphic intensity.[...]
From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857-1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction-vol[...]