Pearl is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieva...
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kids and adul...
Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by...
Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little was 'done'...
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-child has bee...
The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was...
This is the story of the Donner party who left their home in Illinois to relocate to California in the 1840s. Due to a decision to take an alternate t...
The novel follows the character Pelle Karlsson, who immigrates to Denmark from Sweden in 1877 at age eight. At 18, he moves from Bornholm to Copenhage...
John Clare was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England’s greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when...
This book, a Ruritanian romance for children, is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin called "The Rat". Marco's father, S...
"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-Webster, stands...
“Under the Sunset” is a collection of eight amazing fantasy tales from the mind and imagination of the legendary Bram Stoker (Dracula.) Originally con...
This book of poems has many elements which would appeal to children but there’s also some exploration of her feelings of love, lust and longing which...
"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science a...
The Emperor of Portugallia is a novel by Nobel-laureate Selma Lagerlöf, published in 1914 with drawings by Albert Engström. Lagerlöf called it a "Swed...
"It is quite generally recognized that psychology has remained in the semi-mythological, semi-scholastic period longer than most attempts at scientifi...
"Mr. Spaceship" is a science fiction short story by American writer Philip K. Dick, first published in 1953 in Imagination in January 1953, and later...
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observatio...
The book is divided in half, into humans (and human nature, and primarily human history pre-Christ, and also pre-history because that is a paradox and...
Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the precedin...
In this volume, the author has "tried to point out a few of the things that make [the world] so loveable. If something I have said," he writes, "makes...
This book takes readers on a heart-pounding journey, immersing them in a world filled with danger, intrigue, and a relentless pursuit of justice.
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This engaging book is an inestimable resource for any student of the merry monarch, Charles II. "Odd's fish," he said "I am an ugly fellow!" Yet, as A...
