Sage, storyteller, and wit, Washington Irving created such staples of American fiction as the stories \\\"Rip Van Winkle\\\" and \\\"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.\\\" He earned his preeminence in early American literature with the masterpieces in miniature collected here: dozens of stories, travel essays, biographical discourses, and literary musings....

Since its publication in 1922, The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle has delighted people of all ages throughout the world with its blend of fantasy and environmentalism. Doctor John Dolittle, the world\"s greatest naturalist, has the unique ability to communicate with animals in their own languages....

1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell\"s prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. \\\"1984\\\" is still the great modern classic \\\"negative Utopia\\\" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words....