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A Hungarian-born British novelist, playwright and artist of noble origin. She is most known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Orczy went on to write over a dozen sequels featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, his family, and the other members of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel,...

Contents The Grasshopper Stories by Elizabeth Davis Leavitt (1912) Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice C. Hegan (1901) The Angel Children by Charlotte M. Higgins (1854) The Blue Bird for Children by Georgette Leblanc and Maurice Maeterlinck (1913) Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman Mark Twain's...

A Scottish author of children's books. She is best known for her first book, Little Black Sambo. Contents The Story of the Teasing Monkey The Story of Little Black Mingo Little Black Sambo

An English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents The...

Richard Henry Dana Jr. (August 1, 1815 – January 6, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of an eminent colonial family who gained renown as the author of the American classic, the memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a...

Table of Contents - The American The Turn of the Screw The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 The Wings of the Dove, Volume 2 of 2 Daisy Miller The Ambassadors The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) What Maisie Knew The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which...

Known by his nom de plume Voltaire(pronounced: [vɔl.tɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Voltaire...

An English novelist best known as the author of Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Contents Memoirs Of Fanny Hill Memoirs of a Coxcomb Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, commonly known as Fanny Hill, has been shrouded in mystery and controversy since John Cleland completed...

Malory likely wrote Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur), the first major work of English language prose, based on Arthurian mythology. Richard Whittington, mayor of London, was responsible for philanthropic work that allowed prisoners access to a library in the Greyfriars monastery adjacent to...

Table of Contents Villette Jane Eyre Shirley Napoleon and the Spectre The Professor Poems The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell Villette - After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where...

A German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and...

A Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in 1846...

An English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911). Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. Contents His Grace of Osmonde...

Contents Rudyard Kipling My Own True Ghost Story The Sending of Dana Da In the House of Suddhoo His Wedded Wife A. Conan Doyle A Case of Identity A Scandal in Bohemia The Red-Headed League Egerton Castle The Baron's Quarry   Stanley J. Weyman The Fowl in the Pot Robert Louis Stevenson...