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The German People H. E. Marshall’s classic retelling of German history. Starting with the early mythology of the nation’s founding including the Te...

The Boy Scouts From the Author: The Boy Scouts series of books has been written with a twofold purpose: To stimulate on the part of every one of my...

The Raven A narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The poem tells the story of a distraught lover who is paid a mysterious visit by a t...

Of Long Ago The story of Marcus, a Roman boy, laid during the closing days of the Roman Republic, when conservative members of the nobility still h...

Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and prolific children’s author. Best known for his animal stories for young children, Burgess authored...

Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and prolific children’s author. Best known for his animal stories for young children, Burgess authored...

Thornton Waldo Burgess was a conservationist and prolific children’s author. Best known for his animal stories for young children, Burgess authored...

Arthurian Legends Maude Radford Warren’s classic retelling of twenty-one Arthurian legends for children. The book provides an excellent introductio...

Glimpses of Field Work Clara Harlowe Barton’s retelling of her founding of the American Red Cross and the subsequent disasters the Red Cross respon...

Of Long Ago This is a story of Spartan courage and endurance. Through the eyes of Chartas, a boy of Sparta, we catch a glimpse into the typical upb...

Or, Life Among the Lowly The classic anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a profound effect on the attitudes of the public to...

Natural History Reader Book II of James Jahonnot’s Natural History Series. The book covers common household, farmyard, and wild animals including c...

Natural History Reader Book I of James Jahonnot’s Natural History Series. The book covers common household and farmyard animals including cats, dog...

Mother Russia Arthur Ransome’s classic retelling of Russian tales. Ransome noted that “the stories in this book are those that Russian peasants tel...

Cautionary Tales Amusing advice and rhymes for children. The text is accompanied with equally amusing drawings which have been compared to the work...

More Beasts Amusing advice and rhymes for young children. The text is accompanied with equally amusing drawings which have drawn comparison to the ...

Book of Beasts Amusing advice and rhymes for young children. The text is accompanied with equally amusing drawings which have drawn comparison to t...

Capitalism and Socialism Belloc provides a broad overview of the economic history of Europe starting with the ancient pagan states through medieval...

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc Considered by Belloc himself, and by most critics, his greatest work. The book is an account of his walking pilgr...

Language of Flowers Floriography, or the “language of flowers,” has been practiced for thousands of years across different cultures. It was especia...

A B C’s The A Apple Pie, or A Was an Apple Pie, nursery rhyme was a very popular method for teaching the alphabet to young children in the 19th cen...

The Mary Frances Series Jane Eayre Fryer was a school teacher who wrote The Mary Frances Series for young girls and boys to teach them practical sk...

The Mary Frances Series Jane Eayre Fryer was a school teacher who wrote The Mary Frances Series for young girls and boys to teach them practical sk...

The Mary Frances Series Jane Eayre Fryer was a school teacher who wrote The Mary Frances Series for young girls and boys to teach them practical sk...

A Narrative of 1757 James Fenimore Cooper’s best known novel and second volume in his pentalogy the Leatherstocking Tales. Set during the French an...

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...

From This World, To That Which is to Come Cited as the first novel written in English, The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most important works of...