Ocean State Libraries

The Bells, The Cask of Amontillado • The Tell-Tale Heart • The Fall of the House of Usher • The Raven THE BLACK CAT • Berenice • The Man Who Was All Used-Up.

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a grinning cat and a rabbit with a pocket-watch, joins a mad tea party and plays croquet with the Queen. Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. Fogg is a rich English...

The adventures of a sixteen-year-old orphan who was kidnapped by his villainous uncle but later escaped and became involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.

"A viscount seeks to unravel the mystery of the Paris Opera House and rescue the woman he loves from the threat of the phantom of the opera." "This love story/thriller relates the tale of the mysterious masked terror who inhabits the cellars of the Paris Opera House."

Tom's plan to become famous involves Huck Finn and his friend Jim in a crusade to the Holy Land by balloon ascension.

Rip-roaring fictional adventures of swashbuckling pirates and buccaneers of the Spanish Main. Includes The Ghost of Captain Brand, Tom Chist and The Treasure Box.

Animal farm: A political satire in which the animals take over running the farm but find their utopian state turning into a dictatorship. Moby Dick: Sailor Ishmael tells the story of Captain Ahab, who sails on a vengeful quest to slay the legendary white whale known as Moby Dick.