Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classics. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Qualitas Classics)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Qualitas Classics) Review



The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes presents the ultimate detective stories. Holmes is likely the world's best known fictional detective. Operating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he was a brilliant consulting detective, operating out of his home base on Baker Street in London, England. Holmes is famous for his powers of observation and deduction. He could always be called upon to crack the most difficult cases with the able assistance of his steady side-kick, Dr. Watson, who narrates the stories. This publication of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is part of the Qualitas Classics Fireside Series, where pure, ageless classics are presented in clean, easy to read reprints. For a complete list of titles, see: http://www.qualitaspublishing.com


Friday, October 28, 2011

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Wishbone Classics #6)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Wishbone Classics #6) Review



Taken under the wing of legendary hero Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, young peasant boy Gilbert witnesses the Merry Men's quest for justice for the poor and freedom for the good King Richard.


Monday, September 5, 2011

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics)

The Adventures and Misadventures of Maqroll (New York Review Books Classics) Review



Maqroll the Gaviero (the Lookout) is one of the most alluring and memorable characters in the fiction of the last twenty-five years. His extravagant and hopeless undertakings, his brushes with the law and scrapes with death, and his enduring friendships and unlooked-for love affairs make him a Don Quixote for our day, driven from one place to another by a restless and irregular quest for the absolute. Álvaro Mutis's seven dazzling chronicles of the adventures and misadventures of Maqroll have won him numerous honors and a passionately devoted readership throughout the world. Here for the first time in English all these wonderful stories appear in a single volume in Edith Grossman's prize-winning translation.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Qualitas Classics)

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Qualitas Classics) Review



The Adventures of Robin Hood was written by Howard Pyle and first published in 1883. While its official title is The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, it has been shortened here to reflect popular usage. In this work, Pyle distilled many legends and ballads concerning the mythical Robin Hood and tailored them to be suitable to a childe audience. While none of the tales in the book were Pyle's own invention, he wove them together to form a unified story. Robin Hood's dashing acts of wealth redistribution (from the rich to the poor) have captured the imagination and fascination of millions of delighted readers through the ages. This publication of The Adventures of Robin Hood is part of the Qualitas Classics Fireside Series, where pure, ageless classics are present in clean, easy to read reprints. For a complete list of titles, see: www.qualitaspublishing.com