Literary Collections

One Saturday afternoon in January a lively and animated group of boys were gathered on the western side of a large pond in the village of Groveton. Prominent among them was a tall, pleasant-looking young man of twenty-two, the teacher of the Center...

Just on the edge of the prairie, in western Iowa, some thirty years since, stood a cabin covering quite a little ground, but only one story high. It was humble enough as a home, but not more so than the early homes of some who have become great. Let us...

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Horatio Alger Jr.Publisher:...

The Young Acrobat of The Great North American CircusAuthor: Horatio Alger Jr.Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 15, 2015Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517355974ISBN-13:...

Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to SuccessAuthor: Horatio Alger Jr.Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 15, 2015Number of Pages: 172 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517356539ISBN-13: 9781517356538

Excerpt from Back Home: Being the Narrative of Judge Priest and His People After I came North to live it seemed to me, as probably it has seemed to many Southern born men and women that the Southerner of fiction as met with in the North was generally...

Ladies and GentlemenAuthor: Irvin S. CobbPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 15, 2015Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151735692XISBN-13: 9781517356927

From Place to PlaceAuthor: Irvin S. CobbPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 15, 2015Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517356946ISBN-13: 9781517356941

Europe RevisedAuthor: Irvin S. CobbPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 15, 2015Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517356970ISBN-13: 9781517356972

Sundry AccountsAuthor: Irvin S. CobbPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 16, 2015Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517371309ISBN-13: 9781517371302

Daintily-embroidered napery, beautiful porcelain, Queen Anne silver, exotic flowers, glittering glass, soft rosy light, creamy expanses of shirt-front, elegant low-necked dresses-all the conventional accompaniments of Occidental gastronomy. It was not a...

"[...] [She pulls the cloth on viciously.] MENDEL [Sobered, rising from the piano] Don't talk nonsense, Kathleen. Nobody is making a joke of you. Have a little patience-you'll soon learn our ways. KATHLEEN [More mildly] [...]."Author: Israel...

"Cephas! here is a letter for you, and it is from Shady Dale! I know you will be happy now." For several years Sophia had listened calmly to my glowing descriptions of Shady Dale and the people there. She was patient, but I could see by the way she...

In preparing the pages that follow, the writer has had in view the desirability of familiarizing the youth of Georgia with the salient facts of the State's history in a way that shall make the further study of that history a delight instead of a task...

Studies in LiteratureAuthor: John MorleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 21, 2015Number of Pages: 148 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517444241ISBN-13: 9781517444242

RousseauAuthor: John MorleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 21, 2015Number of Pages: 194 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517444292ISBN-13: 9781517444297

RousseauAuthor: John MorleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 21, 2015Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517444314ISBN-13: 9781517444310

BurkeAuthor: John MorleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 21, 2015Number of Pages: 136 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517444349ISBN-13: 9781517444341

Diderot and The EncyclopaedistsAuthor: John MorleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 21, 2015Number of Pages: 212 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517444438ISBN-13: 9781517444433

In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue sky, shaped...

Her predilection for things French came from childish recollections of school-days in Paris, and a hasty removal thence by her father during the revolution of '48, of later travels as a little maiden, by diligence, to Pau and the then undiscovered...

The year was 1891, the month October, the day Monday. In the dark outside the railway-station at Worsted Skeynes Mr. Horace Pendyce's omnibus, his brougham, his luggage-cart, monopolised space. The face of Mr. Horace Pendyce's coachman monopolised the...

He walked along Holywell that afternoon of early June with his short gown drooping down his arms, and no cap on his thick dark hair. A youth of middle height, and built as if he had come of two very different strains, one sturdy, the other wiry and light...

Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this book-to go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands reaching at nothing, and his little solemn eyes staring...

Light, entering the vast room-a room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutiny-travelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made...

Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and looking into the Future. He walked. Since the...

"Villa Rubein and Other Stories" from John Galsworthy. English novelist and playwright, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 (1867-1933).Author: John GalsworthyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 22,...

Excerpt from An Engagement of Convenience: A Novel Miss Robinson had first seen Wyndham and fallen in love with him on the day that he appeared in the road as a neighbour and set up his studio there. But that was years before, and she had never made his...

The Gateless BarrierAuthor: Mary St Leger KingsleyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep 22, 2015Number of Pages: 160 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517463750ISBN-13: 9781517463755

A girl stood up in her saddle with one hand to her lips. "Halloo! Halloo!" she cried. "I wonder where on earth I am? I thought I knew every inch of this country, yet here I am lost and I can't be but a few miles from our ranch. I must have missed the...