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A Journal of the Plague Year
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
First published in 1722, this unabridged edition of Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year covers events in London, England, in 1665 as the bubonic plague spread throughout the city.… Read More →
First Avenue Classics ™ Grades 6–8 Collection (Multi-User) — eBook Set
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
From Alice and the Wizard of Oz to Hamlet and Don Quixote, your favorite characters from literature are now accessible from any digital device. First Avenue Classics transform unabridged… Read More →
First Avenue Classics ™ Grades 9–12 Collection (Multi-User) — eBook Set
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
From Alice and the Wizard of Oz to Hamlet and Don Quixote, your favorite characters from literature are now accessible from any digital device. First Avenue Classics transform unabridged… Read More →
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The wizard Merlin foretells that King Arthur's bastard son Mordred will one day bring about the ruin of Camelot. At Merlin's urging, Arthur tries to have the boy killed. Arthur then marries… Read More →
Middlemarch
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Middlemarch's society is a complex web, and those who do not learn to navigate the intricate threads soon find themselves hopelessly entangled. In 1830s England, social status is no longer… Read More →
The Count of Monte Cristo
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Betrayed by his closest companions who are jealous of his success and his beautiful fiancée, Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned in Château d’If in France. The prison is home to the most… Read More →
The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
In the midst of the French and Indian War, young Alice and Cora Munro set out to visit their father, a colonel in the British army. It's a dangerous journey through the western New York… Read More →
The Man in the Iron Mask
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
The courageous musketeers—Athos, D'Artagnan, Aramis, and Porthos—return to sword fighting in the final installment of the D'Artagnan Romances. When Aramis visits the Bastille, an infamous… Read More →
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Drawn by visions of glory on the battlefield, Henry Fleming joins the Union Army to fight the Confederates. But his dreams of valor are outweighed by his fear, and after one battle, Harry… Read More →
The Scarlet Letter
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Hester Prynne has committed one of the worst crimes in seventeenth-century Puritan Boston: adultery. To make matter worse, she is pregnant. As punishment, she is shamed and forced to wear a… Read More →
The Three Musketeers
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Young, poor D'Artagnan is off to seek his fortune in Paris. Even before he reaches the city, he gets himself into mischief and, shortly after arriving, he offends three of the King's… Read More →
War and Peace
From the Series First Avenue Classics ™
Part historical fiction, part philosophical treatise, and part romance novel, this genre-transcending epic follows the increasingly intertwined fates of the children of five prominent Russian Read More →