Indian Classics

Children everywhere have read and loved Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book—and continue to do so. Here Blackstone offers this collection of moral fables in its entirety. Tales of Mowgli, the boy raised by animals in the exotic jungles of India; Rikki-tikki-tavi, a courageous young mongoose...

He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were...

Winner of the 2007 Audie Award for Solo Narration—Female and Finalist for Fiction, Unabridged From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove comes a big, brilliant, unputdownable saga of the Old West, told in the spunky courageous voice of a young woman named Nellie Courtright. When...

A narrative of the unparalleled adventures of Matthew Brayton is compiled for the satisfaction of those who wished to preserve a memorial of his romantic history. Extraordinary as the incidents may appear, there is abundant proof of their entire truth. Living witnesses bear testimony to the circumstances of the mysterious loss of the hero, and his identity is established by incontrovertible proofs. Numerous circumstances also confirm the account given by him of his adventures during the 34 years spent among the Indians.

Treasured by Buddhists of all traditions, The Way of the Bodhisattva (Bodhicharyavatara) is a guide to cultivating the mind of enlightenment, and to generating the qualities of love, compassion, generosity, and patience. This text has been studied, practiced, and expounded upon in an unbroken...

This annotated edition of The Last of the Mohicans includes: • A 16,500-word critical study, "The Man Who Invented America" • A reckoning with Mark Twain's famous demolition of Cooper • An honest look at Cooper's Indians — idealization and its costs • A full biography of James Fenimore Cooper • Notes on the complete, unabridged 1826 text 1757. The forests of upstate New York, where two empires are at war and a way of life is ending. As the French and their allies close on Fort William Henry, a frontier scout called Hawkeye and his two Mohican companions — Chingachgook and his ...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Best Fiction Narrator An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel ever written about the last defiant wilderness. “My favorite book: there are so many that I would be afraid to say. Probably if I had to pick anything I’d say Lonesome Dove by...

India is often reputed to be the home of the fairy tale. Here are some of the best from the sub-continent, from the Jatakas to the folktales of Kashmir. You'll hear stories about the evil magician Punchkin, the magic fiddle, and more.

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Driving home from town on the Fourth of July, a boy and the farm family he has ridden with count nine drunken Indians lying by the roadside in the dust. The family teases him about a tenth: the Indian girl he has been seeing all summer. At home his...

Jack Hays led from the front. He was the man who set the standard for Texas Rangers for decades to come. He wasn’t a big man – five foot six, a hundred thirty pounds – but to the men he led into battle, he was a giant. John Coffee Hays, native Tennessean and surveyor by trade, came to the Texas frontier when the region was still part of Mexico. He stayed through the era of the Republic and eventual statehood, riding with men like Sam Walker, Ben McCulloch, and Bigfoot Wallace, all of whom became legends in Texas history. He freely admitted he wasn’t a crack shot with handgun or ...

Nearly two thousand years ago, an anonymous Greek-speaking merchant recorded the sea routes connecting Roman Egypt with eastern Africa, Arabia, and India. His practical handbook—known today as The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea—preserves an extraordinary firsthand picture of commerce across the ancient Indian Ocean. Port by port, the author identifies anchorages, sailing distances, seasonal winds, local rulers, dangerous waters, and the goods exchanged at each destination. Ivory and tortoise shell leave Africa; frankincense and myrrh come from Arabia; pepper, pearls, gemstones, cotton, ...

“With a graceful, measured elegance” (The New York Times), this lyrical novel reimagines the life of the infamous queen from the ancient epic the Ramayana, giving voice to an extraordinary woman determined to leave her mark in a world where gods and men dictate the shape of things to come. I...

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major...

Four in the morning at Fort Whipple, Arizona, and a lieutenant has just been refused by the girl he waited two years to ask. He is crying against a tree when the "Boots and Saddles" call sounds — an Apache outbreak twenty miles up the valley, ranches burning, a mail rider found stripped in a thicket — and he straightens up with something close to relief: the war has arrived to rescue him from an awkward evening. That single scene, from the fourth chapter of The Colonel's Daughter, is the whole collection in miniature. Charles King wrote it in 1882, eight years after he was himself ...

The Jungle Book does not end in the jungle. It ends in the mud of an artillery park the night before a military review, where a young mule, frightened by shapes he cannot name, asks the only question a children's book about animals rarely bothers to ask: why do we have to fight at all? Three species answer him in the same words. He asks who gives the orders, and the answer runs link by link — driver to sergeant, sergeant to officer, officer up through the whole structure of the army and out the top of it, to the Viceroy and the throne behind him. The one animal on the field who is afraid ...

The first prequel in Larry McMurtry’s beloved Lonesome Dove series features the early adventures of Texas Rangers Augustus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call, two of the most memorable heroes in contemporary fiction. As young Texas Rangers, Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call ("Gus" and "Call" for short)...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2026 GILLER PRIZE ONE OF INDIGO'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2026 From the award-winning and bestselling author of Five Little Indians comes a powerful family saga following three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them to each other...

From bestselling author B.B. Reid comes a wicked retelling of your favorite fairytale. America’s sweetheart has been canceled. From teen star to international phenom to the biggest celebrity in the world, Aurelia George has suddenly found herself on the other side of adoration. The public...

Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha is one of the most enduring novels of spiritual self-discovery—a story about the search for wisdom, meaning, and inner peace. Set in India during the time of the Buddha, the novel follows Siddhartha, a young Brahmin who leaves behind the security of his family and religious tradition in search of a truth he can experience for himself. His journey takes him among the Samanas, into an encounter with Gotama the Buddha, and eventually into the very different world of love, desire, wealth, and material success. Through Kamala, the beautiful courtesan, Siddhartha ...