The Mark of Zorro
Page 26
This classic swashbuckling adventure on the high seas is alive with color, romance, and excitement, and also smoothly comments on the social injustices of slavery, the dangers of intolerance, the power of love, the role of fate, and how oppression can drive men to desperate measures.
ISBN 0-14-218010-6
The Four Feathers
A. E. W. Mason
With an Introduction by Gary Hoppenstand
Just before sailing off to war in the Sudan, British guardsman Harry Feversham quits his regiment and immediately receives four white feathers—symbols of cowardice—one each from his three best friends and his fiancée. To prove his bravery, Harry dons an Arabian disguise and leaves for the Sudan, hoping to regain their love and respect.
ISBN 0-14-218001-7
The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau
Anthony Hope
With an Introduction and Notes by Gary Hoppenstand
The ever-popular The Prisoner of Zenda and the darker, more dramatic Rupert of Hentzau are full of swashbuckling feats of heroism as well as witty ironies that brilliantly satirize late nineteenth-century European politics.
ISBN 0-14-043755-X
The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Translated with an Introduction by Lord Sudley
Based on historic fact, set in France in the seventeenth century, this is the stirring, romantic story of d’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and their fight to preserve the honor of their Queen. ISBN 0-14-044025-9
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
With an Introduction by John Seelye
The quintessential British adventure story, Stevenson’s novel is narrated by cabin boy Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates. This edition includes Stevenson’s own essay about the composition of Treasure Island, written just before his death. ISBN 0-14-043768-1