The Awkward Age
by Henry James | 
The Confidence-Man
by Herman Melville | 
The Red Rover
by James Fenimore Cooper | 
The Princess Casamassima
by Henry James | 
The Masque of the Red Death
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Selected Tales
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
The Spoils of Poynton
by Henry James | 
A Hazard of New Fortunes
by William Dean Howells | 
Typee
by Herman Melville | 
The Rise of Silas Lapham
by William Dean Howells | 
Benito Cereno
by Herman Melville | 
The Prairie
by James Fenimore Cooper | 
Redburn
by Herman Melville | 
The American
by Henry James | 
The Europeans
by Henry James | 
The Bostonians
by Henry James | 
The Tragic Muse
by Henry James | 
Tales of Mystery and Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
Tales of Mystery & Imagination
by Edgar Allan Poe | 
The Pit and the Pendulum
by Edgar Allan Poe |
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys, who find themselves repeatedly on the brink of discovery or death, witness many hair-raising events, including mutiny, savagery, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits.