Children’s / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

This is a collection of seven short stories by Louisa May Alcott, an American novelist best known as author of the novel ''Little Women.

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the gold-haired winged ram, which can be procured in Colchis.

Beverley remembers his childhood days with his brother Felix and their many friends.

After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.

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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister who was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel Little Women.

After an accidental fire, a new carpet is placed in the play room to replace the one that was destroyed.

What Katy Did, follows the adventures of the Carr family, who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio, in the 1860s.

Much of the novel is written from the view-point of his canine character, enabling London to explore how animals view their world and how they view humans.

Nils is a young lad who likes nothing more than eating and sleeping.

Uncle Tom''s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

A story of the days when England and Spain struggled for the supremacy of the sea.

She gladly saw them ramble off together, leaving her time to stitch happily at certain dainty bits of sewing, write voluminous letters, or dream over others quite as long, swinging in her hammock under the lilacs.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Here is the fourth book in the Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn series.

A beautiful story about friendship, secrets, and the human spirit, The Secret Garden tells the story of the courage of two unhappy and withering children who become determined to make their lives, and the lives of others around them, more joyful.

Two friends and their chaperone travel through Europe and learn some valuable life lessons in this old-fashioned light comedy by one of America’s greatest children’s writers.

Brave, chivalrous, loyally faithful to his plighted word, scrupulously heedful of his own and others'' honour, Gawain stands before us in this poem.

The Arthur of history was engaged in a life-long struggle with an enemy that threatened to rob his people of home, of country, and of freedom; in the stories, the king and his knights, like Richard Coeur-de-Lion, sought adventure for adventure''s sake, or, as in the case of Sir Peredur, took fantastic vows for the love of a lady.

Collected here are ten wonderful traditional Indian stories as told by Rabindranath Tagore.

The material for the Arthur stories came from many countries and from many different periods of history.

More than five hundred years ago there lived a diligent man called Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote in English words many of the beautiful Welsh tales about King Arthur''s Knights, that the people of Wales loved so well.

I believe that King Arthur was the most honorable, gentle Knight who ever lived in all the world.

Wherefore if it will please you to read that which is hereinafter set forth, you will be told of how Sir Launcelot slew the great Worm of Corbin; of the madness that afterward fell upon him, and of how a most noble, gentle, and beautiful lady, hight the Lady Elaine the Fair, lent him aid and succor at a time of utmost affliction to him, and so brought him back to health again.

While the childrens mother and father are out of the country the children are staying with the "old nurse" in her boarding house.

IN this volume there follows the fourth and last series of those histories relating to the life and to the kingship of Arthur, King of England.

For the happiness you have brought to them let me give to you the doll of all my dolls, the doll I loved most dearly.

There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.

Despite her impoverished background, Rebecca is an imaginative and charming child, often composing little poems and songs to express her feelings or to amuse her younger brothers and sisters.

In this delightful tale an unnamed boy discovers that there is a dragon living in the downs above his house.

Pollyanna Whittier, is a young orphan who goes to live in Beldingsville, Vermont, with her wealthy but stern Aunt Polly.

The Princess and Curdie are back in this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin.

The Princess and the Goblin is beloved children''s classic written by George MacDonald.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

The Odyssey is literature''s grandest evocation of everyman''s journey though life.

Heidi has captivated and enthralled readers since it was first published.

Join Pinnocchio as he learns what it means to be a real boy.

Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist best known as author of the novel ''Little Women.

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The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.

These stories, first published in 1902, are pourquoi stories: fantastic accounts of how various phenomena came about.

Lyman Frank Baum penned fourteen novels in his famous Oz chronology.

Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover, eighteen-year-old Jack Martin, and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.

Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.

Leo Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time.

Black Beauty is the autobiography of a horse.

King Arthur and his court come to life in this four volume omnibus of Howard Pyles 'Legends and Stories of King Arthur.

IN this volume there follows the fourth and last series of those histories relating to the life and to the kingship of Arthur, King of England.