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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  

Mark Twain and Emory Elliott (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 June 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920707
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536559.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536559
You don’t know about me, without you have read a book by the name of “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, but that ain’t no matter. So begins, in characteristic fashion, one of the greatest ... More
The Adventures of Pinocchio

The Adventures of Pinocchio  

Carlo Collodi

Published in Print: 
25 June 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921889
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199553983.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199553983
The story of the wooden puppet who learns goodness and becomes a real boy is famous the world over, and has been familiar in English for over a century. From the moment Joseph the carpenter ... More
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  

Mark Twain and Peter Stoneley (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 June 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920714
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536566.001.0001
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ISBN: 
9780199536566
‘Tom was a glittering hero once more – the pet of the old, and the envy of the young…There were some that believed he would be President yet, if he escaped hanging.’ In this enduring and ... More
Black Beauty

Black Beauty  

Anna Sewell and Adrienne E. Gavin (ed.)

Published in Print: 
08 November 2012
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923531
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199608522.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199608522
‘I have heard men say, that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing.’ Anna Sewell's famous ‘Autobiography of a Horse, published in 1877, is one of the bestselling ... More
Captains Courageous

Captains Courageous  

Rudyard Kipling and Leonee Ormond (ed.)

Published in Print: 
09 October 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923005
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199554836.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199554836
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew ... More
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court  

Mark Twain, M. Thomas Inge (ed.), and Daniel Carter Beard

Published in Print: 
17 April 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921698
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199540587.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199540587
When A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur’s Court was published in 1889, Mark Twain was undergoing a series of personal and professional crises. Thus what began as a literary burlesque of ... More
Hans Andersen's Fairy TalesA Selection

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection  

Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis, Vilhelm Pedersen, and Lorenz Fröhlich

Published in Print: 
28 May 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
0000000000000
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555857.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199555857

Includes: The Tinder-Box; The Princess and the Pea; Thumbelina; The Little Mermaid; The Emperor's New Clothes; The Steadfast Soldier; The Ugly Duckling; The Snow Queen; The Little Match-Girl

The Jungle Books

The Jungle Books  

Rudyard Kipling and W. W. Robson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 June 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920660
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199536450.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199536450
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic stories told by an adult to children. But they also constitute a complex literary work of art in which the whole of Kipling’s philosophy of life ... More
Little Women

Little Women  

Louisa May Alcott and Valerie Alderson (ed.)

Published in Print: 
11 December 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921216
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199538119.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199538119
Little Women has remained enduringly popular since its publication in 1868, becoming the inspiration for a whole genre of family stories. Set in a small New England community, it tells of ... More
The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda (2 ed.)  

Anthony Hope and Nicholas Daly (ed.)

Published in Print: 
20 February 2020
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920271
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198841098.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198841098
‘If love were the only thing, I would follow you-in rags if need be ... But is love the only thing?’ Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda is a swashbuckling adventure set in Ruritania, a ... More
Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales

Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales  

Mark Twain and R. D. Gooder (ed.)

Published in Print: 
26 February 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921957
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199554713.001.0001
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ISBN: 
9780199554713
Pudd‘nhead Wilson (1894) was Mark Twain‘s last serious work of fiction, and perhaps the only real novel that he ever produced. Written in a more sombre vein than his other Mississippi ... More
Selected Tales

Selected Tales  

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Published in Print: 
30 July 2009
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920233
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199555581.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199555581
‘Once upon a time in mid-winter, when the snowflakes were falling from the sky like down, a queen was sitting and sewing at a window ...’The tales gathered by the Grimm brothers are at once ... More
Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown's Schooldays  

Thomas Hughes and Andrew Sanders (ed.)

Published in Print: 
12 June 2008
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191921001
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199537303.001.0001
Format: 
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ISBN: 
9780199537303
abstract A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown’s Schooldays has long had an influence ... More
Treasure Island

Treasure Island  

Robert Louis Stevenson and Peter Hunt (ed.)

Published in Print: 
13 January 2011
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923265
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199560356.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199560356
There were only seven out of the twenty-six on whom we knew we could rely; and out of those seven one was a boy.’ When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins ... More
Victorian Fairy Tales

Victorian Fairy Tales  

Michael Newton (ed.)

Published in Print: 
26 May 2016
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191920042
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780198737599.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780198737599
The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative ... More
The Water-Babies

The Water-Babies  

Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson (ed.), and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)

Published in Print: 
10 September 2014
Published Online: 
16 December 2020
eISBN: 
9780191923777
DOI: 
10.1093/owc/9780199685455.001.0001
Format: 
book
ISBN: 
9780199685455
‘This is all a fairy tale…and, therefore, you are not to believe a word of it, even if it is true.’ The Water-Babies (1863) is one of the strangest and most powerful children's stories ever ... More

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