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Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the tent...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the eigh...

A Shakespearean Comedy A ship is caught in a powerful storm and the vessel is shipwrecked on an island. The storm, it turns out, is a magical creat...

Arabian Nights Andrew Lang’s retelling of the famous stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) also known as Arabian Nights (English). The wo...

Or The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...

The Adventures of David Balfour A historical fiction novel set in the 18th century around Scottish events. The story is narrated by David Balfour, ...

The Three Chimneys The story of a family who moves to a home near a railway after their father is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying....

An English Classic Follow Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger on their adventures in the English countryside. These stories are for those “who keep the spi...

American Pioneers and Patriots A biographical account of the legendary American frontiersman, soldier, and politician David Crockett. The book trac...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the fift...

The Aesopica A collection of fables credited to Aesop, an ancient Greek slave and storyteller who lived between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins...

The Secret Garden The story of Mary Lennox, a 10 year old girl, and her time after the death of her parents in India. Mary is sent to live with her...

By the Sieur Louis de Conte Mark Twain’s last completed novel, it is presented as a translation by “Jean Francois Alden” of memoirs by Louis de Con...

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob M...

Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life A first-person account of a 2-month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, & Kansas in ...

Tom Sawyer’s Comrade Huckleberry Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adve...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the twel...

The Boy Scouts From the Author: The Boy Scouts series of books has been written with a twofold purpose: To stimulate on the part of every one of my...

The Oldest Old Thing in England A historical fantasy book containing a series of short stories set in different time periods of English history inc...

Christian Pioneer and Explorer David Livingstone was a Scottish Congregationalist and pioneer of Christian medical missionary work in Africa.  Mr. ...

It was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...

A War Novel Henry Fleming, a young private in the Union Army, deserts his regiment and flees during his first battle in the American Civil War. Ove...

Fairy Tales A selection of fairy tales collected and edited by Scottish author Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang. The book is the elev...

A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself The Vicar, Dr. Charles Primrose, lives an idyllic life in a country parish with his wife Deborah, son Geo...

Father Brown A collection of 12 short stories based on the fictional character Father Brown. A Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective, Father ...

Mediaeval Builders of the Modern World A series of stories about the early period of the Middle Ages in Europe. The book focuses on the wandering n...

From His Own Letters and Journals Edward Everett Hale’s recounting of the life of Christopher Columbus. Hale uses Columbus’s own writings as his pr...

A Return to Primitivism The story of Buck, a powerful St. Bernard-Scotch Collie mix, who lives happily in California as a pampered pet of Judge Mil...

The Sierra Nevadas John Muir’s recounting his experiences during the summer of 1869 when he worked as a shepherd in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of ...

Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Ernest Shackleton describes leading his second expedition to Antarctica from 1914-1917. The expedition is consi...

Or, Life in the Woods. Written by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, the book is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundin...

A Collection of Essays The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay u...

The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tale of Troy Padraic Colum’s classic retelling of the Odyssey and the Iliad for children. Included are such famo...

A Dog The adventures of Lad, a rough collie, who lives at the Place. Lad is based on Terhune’s real life collie who was born in 1902. The book is o...

The Personal History The story of David Copperfield's life and his many adventures including the friends and enemies he meets along the way. The bo...

A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper’s best known novel and second volume in his pentalogy the Leatherstocking Tales. Set during the French an...

Roosevelt’s Rough Riders Theodore Roosevelt recounts his time leading the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry nicknamed the Rough Riders. The book recount...

A Shakespearean Comedy Set in Athens and consisting of several plots connected by the celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the ...

The Rightful King The story of twelve-year-old Marco Loristan, the son of Stefan who is working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom ...

The Good Stars Met in Your Horoscope The story of Anne Shirley, an imaginative and talkative orphan girl. Mistakenly sent to live with Marilla and ...

In Her Own Words Helen Keller’s autobiography detailing her early life and experiences. Keller was an author, disability rights advocate, political...

Unexpectedly Difficult Wodehouse was one of the most widely read humorists of the twentieth century. This story tells of amiable but hard-up "Bill"...

Rob Roy MacGregor A historical fiction novel and one of the Waverly novels. The story is narrated by Englishman Frank Osbadistone who due to a disa...

A Tale of the Two Roses Set during the tumultuous period of the Wars of the Roses in 15th-century England. The story follows the young hero, Dick S...

Told From VirgilThe retelling of the Æneid by Rev. Alfred J. Church.  The book is intended as an introduction to Virgil’s epic poem. The writing st...

A Historical Novel Luise Mühlbach’s historical fiction novel about Marie Antoinette and her son, Louis XVII, during the French Revolution. The book...

The Third Crusade Taking place at the end of the Third Crusade, scheming and partisan politics, as well as the illness of King Richard the Lionhear...

A Shakespearean Comedy Likely Shakespeare’s first play, Valentine is leaving Verona for Milan to broaden his horizons. He asks his best friend, Pro...