After asking the sun, a cloud, the wind, and a wall to marry her, a mouse finds just the right husband.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression.
Frederick Douglass was an ex-slave and a great orator in early 19th-century USA.
The New Atlantis is Sir Francis Bacon's creation of an ideal land.
Beautiful, honest Nell Trent lives with her devoted Grandfather in his Old Curiosity Shop.
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.
The Path of the Law is a short essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The experiences related in this volume fell to me in the summer of 1902.
Christine is brought up by her itinerant musician father, whose death she mourns endlessly.
The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Poison Belt follows on from The Lost World.
Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote the essay The Praise of Folly during a week.
The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald.
The Professor was the first novel Charlotte Bronte wrote, but was only published posthumously.
Hailed as one of American literature's most influential works.
The Fairy Books, or Coloured Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour.
While their father is napping, two boys enthusiastically wash everything in sight.
The Scarlet Pimpernel is the original masked hero adventure story.
It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population.