Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain and Emory Elliott (ed.)
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 ...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
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 ...
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain and Peter Stoneley (ed.)
‘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 ...
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Black Beauty
Anna Sewell and Adrienne E. Gavin (ed.)
‘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 ...
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Captains Courageous
Rudyard Kipling and Leonee Ormond (ed.)
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 ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mark Twain, M. Thomas Inge (ed.), and Daniel Carter Beard
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 ...
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales: A Selection
Hans Christian Andersen, Naomi Lewis, Vilhelm Pedersen, and Lorenz Fröhlich
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
Rudyard Kipling and W. W. Robson (ed.)
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 ...
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott and Valerie Alderson (ed.)
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 ...
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The Prisoner of Zenda (2 ed.)
Anthony Hope and Nicholas Daly (ed.)
‘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 ...
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales
Mark Twain and R. D. Gooder (ed.)
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 ...
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Selected Tales
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
‘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 ...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Thomas Hughes and Andrew Sanders (ed.)
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A classic of Victorian literature, and one of the earliest books written specifically for boys, Tom Brown’s Schooldays has long had an influence ...
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson and Peter Hunt (ed.)
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 ...
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Victorian Fairy Tales
Michael Newton (ed.)
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 ...
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The Water-Babies
Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson (ed.), and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (ed.)
‘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 ...
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