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Famous Deeds A retelling of such famous stories as The Battle of Thermopylae, Regulus, The Battle of the Blackwater, and Fort St. Elmo. “It is inte...

 Penny Whistles A collection of poetry for children by Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson. This collection was first published in 1885 under the ...

Being a Ghost Story of Christmas The story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob M...

From The Landing of Julius Caesar To The Present Day H. O. Arnold-Forster’s history of England starting with the landing of the Romans on the shore...

The Whole Story of Sara Crewe The story of Sarah Crewe who is sent to boarding school in England by her wealthy father who live in India. Sarah soo...

A Shakespearean Comedy Set in Athens and consisting of several plots connected by the celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the ...

‘Home Education’ Series Volume VI and final book in the Home Education Series. This volume provides an overview of Charlotte Mason’s educational ph...

It was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...

Classical Myths Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, acts as narrator retelling famous Greek myths to a group of school children. The myths ...

Tom Sawyer’s Comrade Huckleberry Finn and his friend, Tom Sawyer, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adve...

The Aesopica A collection of fables credited to Aesop, an ancient Greek slave and storyteller who lived between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins...

Alice In Wonderland One of the best-known and most popular English novels authored by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. T...

A Shakespearean Comedy Helena is hopelessly in love with Bertram, a nobleman. Despite her low social status, Helena cures the King of France, earni...

A Classic Children’s Novel The story of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl, who is adopted by Mathew and Marilla Cuthbert to help them on the...

A Shakespearean Comedy The story follows Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke, who flees to the Forest of Arden with her cousin Celia. In the ...

The North Wind The story of a boy named Diamond who befriends the mysterious Lady North Wind.  She invites him to fly through the night with her on...

Mediaeval Builders of the Modern World A series of stories about the early period of the Middle Ages in Europe. The book focuses on the wandering n...

The Bard of Avon Beautiful Stories From Shakespeare is a collection of twenty stories retold by Edith Nesbit. Each play is retold in a way that is ...

The Autobiography of a Horse The first person memoirs from Black Beauty. Beginning with his days as a colt on an English farm with his mother to hi...

The Last of The Gray Dogs of Kenmuir The story chronicles the rivalry between two sheepdogs, Red Wull and Bob, son of Battle, and their masters, Ad...

Mythos Bulfinch originally published his work as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855; The Age of Chiv...

Eyes and No Eyes The second of six books in Arabella Buckley’s Eyes and No Eyes series.  This book covers animals, insects, and plant life found in...

A Story of the Grand Banks Son of a wealthy railroad magnate, Harvey Cheyne, lives a pampered life until one day he is washed overboard from a tran...

A Golden Key Mary Eliza Haweis’s (Mrs. H. R. Haweis's) introduction to Chaucer’s work and legacy for young readers. The book is widely credited wit...

A Story of the Swiss Alps Cornelli is the only child of her widowed yet wealthy father and is used to getting her way. When business calls her fath...

Tragedie One of William Shakespeare's lesser-known plays, blending elements of romance, tragedy, and comedy. The story revolves around King Cymbeli...

The Personal History The story of David Copperfield's life and his many adventures including the friends and enemies he meets along the way. The bo...

Folk and Fairy Tales A collection of English fairy tales compiled by Joseph Jacobs. Featuring such well-known tales as ‘Jack and the Bean Stock,’ ‘...

A History of English Literature H. E. Marshall guides the reader through the history of English literature starting in the early middle ages and en...

Traces of Travel Brought Home The book recounts Kinglake's journey through the Middle East, particularly focusing on his travels in the Levant (Eas...

A Tale of Norway A collection of stories part of Marineau’s “Playfellow” series written for children. The book is set in Norway along the fjords in...

Time-Honored Stories Intended as an introduction to famous stories from Western history and lore for young children.  Famous stories such as King A...

The Psammead After moving from London to the countryside of Kent, a group of five siblings chance upon a Psammead while playing in a gravel pit. Th...

Five Little Peppers The first book in the Five Little Peppers series.  The story introduces the five Pepper children and their widowed mother Mamsi...

Five Little Peppers The second book in the Five Little Peppers series. The Peppers have left their ‘little brown house’ in the country and now live...

‘Home Education’ Series Volume V in the Home Education Series. This volume includes case studies of children who overcame bad habits, reflections o...

Astronomy The lives and discoveries of the Great Astronomers of history. The book covers astronomers such as Ptolemy, Copernicus, Brahe, Galileo, N...

A Dickens Classic Set in England during the middle of the 19th century, the story follows Philip Pirrip, “Pip” for short, a young orphan. Surroundi...

Travels Into Several Remote Nations Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift's best known work and a classic of English literature. The book satir...

A Story of Life In Holland
 The story of Hans Brinker, a Dutch boy, who hopes to enter an ice skating race in order to win the grand prize: silver ...

For These Times The shortest of Dicken’s novels, Hard Times surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. “M...

Heart of Africa Charles Marlow narrates his voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the Heart of Africa. He tells his story to his f...

For Children and Those That Love Children The story of an orphaned young girl who goes to live with her grandfather in a small village in the Swiss...

‘Home Education’ Series Volume I and first book in the Home Education Series. This volume has 6 lectures addressing the raising and educating of yo...

For Primary Grades An introductory geography book for primary grade students. The book covers topics such as direction, distance, rivers, maps, hil...

A Story of Wallace and Bruce At the end of the thirteenth century, the oppressed people of Scotland rebelled against their despised English ruler, ...

A Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...

A Village Story Jack Minot and Janey Pecq are best friends and are always seen together; so much so that Janey receives the nickname “Jill” to mimi...