While their father is napping, two boys enthusiastically wash everything in sight.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.

The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.

Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.

The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.

The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.

Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.

The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.

Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.

The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.

After asking the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a wall to marry her, a mouse finds just the right husband.

The Moonstone is a 19th-century novel by the master of sensation fiction, Wilkie Collins.

The Moon and Sixpence is a fictional novel heavily influenced by the life of French painter Paul Gauguin.