Charles Kingsley: 173 books

Excerpt: "My dear boys, when I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and mean: while you have your choice of books without number, clear, amusing, and pretty, as well as really instructive, on subjects...

Tom is a young chimney sweep, who falls into a river after meeting an upper-class girl named Ellie and being chased out of her house. There he drowns and is transformed into a water-baby. Tom embarks on a series of adventures and lessons, and enjoys the community of other water-babies once he proves himself a moral creature.

Enormously popular when published, Westward Ho! is the saga of Elizabethan sailors from the Devonshire coast who sail off into the unknown to found an empire for their queen. Moving at a breathless pace from start to finish, the story of the sailors’ adventures and conflicts with the Spanish make it an exhilarating read.

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This 1867 collection of sermons includes “The Physician’s Calling,” “The Victory of Life,” “The Wages of Sin,” “The Shaking of the Heavens and the Earth,” “The Battle of Life,” “Cholera, 1866,” “The Great Commandment,” “The Wicked Servant,” “Civilized Barbarism,” and “The Meteor Shower.”

English merchantmen, longing for some share in the riches of the New World, go out to trade in Guinea, in the Azores, in New Spain: and are answered by shot and steel. 'Both policy and religion,' as Fray Simon says, fifty years afterwards, 'forbid Christians to trade with heretics!' 'Lutheran devils,...