When an injustice befalls the poor, Allan is the first to fight for what is right. But as he cont...

One of Zola's Three Cities Trilogy, Lourdes is a story surrounding the famous Catholic healing sh...

One day, Mr. H. M. Woggle-Bug, became separated from his comrades who had accompanied him from th...

But what was more admirable in Babylon, and eclipsed everything else, was the only daughter of th...

Johnny and Jane Potter, being twins, went through Oxford together. Johnny came up from Rugby and ...

From Scott's introduction: 'The incidents on which the ensuing Novel mainly turns, are derived fr...

THE LIGHT PRINCESS When the Light Princess was born, somebody screwed up an invitation to her chr...

Never without grief and pain could I remember the fate of Prince Zaleski -- victim of a too impor...

No novel of the war period made a more profound impression than did Miss Sinclair's 'The Tree of ...

The editors of Amazing Stories -- who first published this novel in August, September, and Octobe...

The people of the small towns and villages at the foot of the mountains were losing their past wh...

'H.L. Mencken wrote of Mark Twain, 'I believe that he was the true father of our national literat...

At the age of fifty-five, former president Theodore Roosevelt took part in an expedition to the f...

Long ago, a human infant was abandoned in a bewitched woodland. Taking up the boy, the nymph Neci...

Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William is a humorous...

Eight Cousins (1875) is a happy story about a sad girl, thirteen-year-old Rose Campbell. Orphaned...

Father Brown's son is stirring a commotion among all the denizens of the meadow -- for he sets an...

The deep shadows were lightened by shafts of sunshine which, here and there, managed to pierce th...

A gripping tale of betrayal, blood-gorged blades and the pursuit of heart's desire, Eric Brightey...

. . . . They are nearly 18 miles from Fort Henry and they worry for their lives. Fortunately, for...

Thea always knew she was destined for greatness. She has a fabulous voice, one that she believes ...

The Nabob figure is a Hungarian potentate of vast estates, who lives amidst a crowd of retainers,...

The narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of grow...

When orphaned Mary Lennox was sent off to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody s...

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), although brought up in privileged circumstances, became a merc...

This is England -- but an England none have ever seen and perhaps none will ever see: for it is a...

Coming from all over the country, the fortune seekers gather in San Francisco and board a ship fo...

No weapon has ever been frightful enough to put a stop to war -- perhaps because we never before ...

This is England -- but an England none have ever seen, and perhaps none will ever see: for it is ...

Little Jim was, for the time, engine Number 36, and he was making the run between Syracuse and Ro...

Peter Rabbit of the Brier-patch is full of mischief today -- and hopes to pull a little prank on ...

'After I glimpsed a kind of thin, yellowish, shimmering exhalation rising from the nitrous patter...

The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans and...

If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not)...

One way to hide an ex-officio agency of the United States Government was to label it truthfully -...

The memoir has been highly regarded by the public, military historians and literary critics. Gran...

The beautiful light-haired, blue-eyed Sylvia Bailey -- married at 19, and already a widow at 25 -...

Ah, leave the hills of Arcady,Thy satyrs and their wanton play,This modern world hath need of the...

Evelina and Ann Eliza are two spinster sisters living together in a one bedroom apartment. They m...

'A light proceeding from the edifice made every part of the scene visible. A gleam diffused itsel...

Included in this 1908 compilation are a number of Dunsany's classic tales: 'The Sword of Welleran...

I could not understand where the charm had gone that I had felt, when as a school-boy of twelve o...

ONE SAVVY SCOT SKIPPEREver wonder what it was like to be the Captain of a Clyde Puffer -- that is...

This volume contains Tales for Children, including 'God Sees the Truth, but Waits,' 'A Prisoner i...

Raised alongside her sickly cousin, Therese lives the quietest of lives. Yet something impetuous ...

Grandfather Frog has a hard time keeping a straight face -- for Buster Bear has outsmarted that r...

The regiment was also called 'Wood's Weary Walkers' in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leon...

Edmond Dantes was a young sailor who, in 1815, returned to Marseilles with great expectations. Bu...