48 Ebooks by Styx Classics
Styx Classics & Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who …
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Styx Classics & Mary Shelley: The Last Man
A futuristic story of tragic love and of the gradual extermination of the human race by plague, The Last Man is Mary Shelley's most important novel after Frankenstein. With intriguing portraits …
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Styx Classics & Mary Shelley: The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
The Fortunes of Perkin …
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Styx Classics & Mary Shelley: Falkner
Falkner charts a young woman’s education under a tyrannical father …
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Styx Classics & Karel Čapek: R.U.R.
R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) is a science fiction play in the Czech language by Karel Čapek. It premiered in 1921 and is famous for having introduced and popularized the term …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the first of his famous Barsoom series. It is also Burroughs’ first novel, predating his Tarzan stories. He wrote it between July …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Warlord of Mars
Old acquaintances, made in the two other stories, reappear: Tars Tarkas, Tardos Mors and others. There is a happy ending to the story in the union of the Warlord, the title conferred upon John …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Gods of Mars
After the long exile on Earth, John Carter finally returned to his beloved Mars. But beautiful Dejah Thoris, the woman he loved, had vanished. Now he was trapped in the legendary Eden of Mars — an …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan of the Apes
When Tarzan is orphaned as a baby deep in the African jungle, the apes adopt him and raise him as their own. By the time the boy is ten, he can swing through the trees and talk to the animals. By the …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Beasts of Tarzan
As the Beasts of Tarzan begins, Tarzan — as Lord Greystoke — is settled in civilized London. But two of his enemies, Nikolas Rokoff and henchman Alexis Paulvitch, are on his trail. The pair abducts …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Son of Tarzan
The story begins 10 years after the conclusion of the previous novel, which places it about 1923. Tarzan (John Clayton) would be about 34 and his son, Jack, around 11. During the past decade, Alexis …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Land That Time Forgot
Starting out as a harrowing wartime sea adventure, Burroughs’s story ultimately develops into a lost world story reminiscent of such novels as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: Thuvia Maid of Mars
This installment shifts focus from John Carter and Dejah Thoris, protagonists of the first three books in the series, to their son Carthoris, prince of Helium, and to Thuvia, princess of Ptarth, and …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent is one of the least-known of Burroughs' thrilling science-fiction tales. In the year 2137, civilization has been in decline for nearly two centuries, and war-torn Europe is but …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Monster Men
Professor Maxon performs secret experiments to make a "perfect race" of humans, finally succeeding with "Number Thirteen." Das E-Book wird angeboten von und wurde mit folgenden …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Cave Girl
Blueblooded mama's boy Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones is swept overboard during a south seas voyage for his lifelong ill health. He finds himself on a jungle island. His bookish education has not …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
Here Tarzan returns to Opar, the source of the gold for lost Atlantis. Ages ago Atlantis sunk beneath the waves — but the denizens of Opar still mine the gold of this lost colony. Tarzan, following …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: At the Earth’s Core
The author relates how, traveling the Sahara, he's encountered a remarkable vehicle & pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story to tell. Innes is a mining heir who finances an …
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Styx Classics & Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Efficiency Expert
The Efficiency Expert, an often overlooked by Burroughs' fans, is a cracking tale of young Jimmy Torrance, an upstanding college graduate in post-World War I Chicago who inadvertently rubs …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Fall of the House of Usher
The tale opens with the unnamed narrator arriving at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher, having received a letter from him in a distant part of the country complaining of an illness and asking …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Raven
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It was published for the first time on January 29, 1845, in the New York Evening Mirror. Noted for its …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Tell-Tale Heart
‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in 1843. It follows an unnamed narrator who insists on his sanity after murdering an old man with a ‘vulture eye’. The murder …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
Tales of the Grotesque and …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Black Cat
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Cask of Amontillado
‘The Cask of Amontillado’ (sometimes spelled ‘The Casque of Amontillado’) is a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey’s Lady’s Book.
The …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Pit and the Pendulum
‘The Pit and the Pendulum’ is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. It has been claimed as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his ‘tales …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade
Having fulfilled this vow for many years to the letter, and with a religious punctuality and method that conferred great credit upon him as a man of devout feeling and excellent sense, he was …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Gold-Bug
Set on Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, the plot follows William Legrand, who was recently bitten by a gold-colored bug. His servant Jupiter fears Legrand is going insane and goes to …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Devil in the Belfry
In an isolated town called Vondervotteimittis (wonder-what-time-it-is), the punctilious inhabitants seem to be concerned with nothing but clocks and cabbage. This methodical, boring and quiet little …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: A Descent into the Maelström
Inspired by the Moskstraumen, it is couched as a story within a story, a tale told at the summit of a mountain climb. The story is told by an old man who reveals that he only appears old – "You …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Masque of the Red Death
‘The Masque of the Red Death’, originally published as ‘The Mask of the Red Death’, is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842. The story follows Prince Prospero’s …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: Mesmeric Revelation
The death of Edgar Allan Poe on October 7, 1849, has remained mysterious: the circumstances leading up to it are uncertain and the cause of death is disputed. On October 3, Poe was found delirious on …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Purloined Letter
"The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin, the other two being …
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Edgar Allan Poe & Styx Classics: The Mystery of Marie Rogêt
"The Mystery of Marie Rogêt", often subtitled A Sequel to "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe written in 1842. This is the first murder …
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