With all those tiny words filling up the pages of your favorite classics, what are you to do? You can use a magnifier or reading glasses. Or, you can read large-print editions. Don't let the size of the font deter you from reading your favorite classics! Read on.
by Evan Bates (Editor). "Best-Loved Short Stories" features F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," Chekhov's "The Lady with the Toy Dog," and O. Henry's "The Furnished Room," along with works by Gustave Flaubert, Leo Tolstoy, Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, and Willa Cather. Read great works of American and European literature--in large-format.
by Philp Smith (Editor). This large-print anthology features 101 of the greatest classics from the 16th century to the 20th century. Read Shakespeare's "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?," Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress," Frost's "The Road Not Taken," as well as works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Pound, and others.
by Clarence C. Strowbridge (Editor). This large-print book includes: Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," Herman Melville's "Bartleby," "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" by Bret Harte, as well as works by O. Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Henry James, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Kate Chopin.
by Paul Negri. The large-print selections include: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Children's Hour," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven," Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death," Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," Carl Sandburg's "Chicago," and T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
by James Joyce. "Dubliners" features 15 classic stories, including some of James Joyce's best known and most often anthologized short works: "The Dead," "Araby," "Eveline," and "A Painful Case." Here, Joyce explores "significance of trivial things." And, this collection offers Joyce's "Dubliners" in a large-print format.
by Emily Dickinson. This large-print collection of Emily Dickinson's poems features: "Because I could not stop for Death," "Hope is the thing with feathers," "I heard a fly buzz when I died," "I'm nobody! Who are you?" and "My life closed twice before its close." In all, the book has more than 100 poems.
by O. Henry. His name was William Sydney Porter, and he drew from the stuff his life experiences were made of to create memorable short fiction. "The Ransom of Red Chief," "The Last Leaf," "The Voice of the City," and "The Gift of the Magi" are among the 16 classic stories collected in this large-print edition of O. Henry's fiction.
by Edgar Allan Poe. In "Great Horror Stories," you'll find some of Poe's most famous tales of horror, from "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Masque of the Red Death" to "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Black Cat," "Ligeia," and "The Gold Bug."
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This large-print edition of Sherlock Holmes stories includes: "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," "The Final Problem," "The Adventure of the Empty House," "The Musgrave Ritual," and "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."
by Robert Frost. "Birches and Other Poems" includes poems in large-format, including: "The Road Not Taken," "The Death of the Hired Man," "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," and "Putting in the Seed." This edition features 77 poems from Robert Frost.