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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: An excerpt from the book:In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty whichI am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following EpicPoem. I beg to quote the emphatic...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Written by J. M. Barrie, the Scottish novelist and dramatist who is best known for inventing the character of Peter Pan. His two 'Tommy' novels, Sentimental Tommy (1896) and Tommy and Grizel (1902), dealt with themes much more explicitly related to what would become Peter Pan.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Young Captain Jack relates the adventures of a boy waif, who is cast upon the Atlantic shore of one of our Southern States and taken into one of the leading families of the locality. The youth grows up...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Number 481 is no better, doctor," said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door. "Confound 481" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Nat Nason was a poor country boy with a strong desire to better his condition. Life on the farm was unusually hard for him, and after a quarrel with his miserly uncle, with whom he resided, he resolved...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: There was great excitement in Smyrna, especially among the boys. Barlow's Great American Circus in its triumphal progress from State to State was close at hand, and immense yellow posters announcing its...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: WHEN this story of my life, or of such parts of it as are not deemed wholly unfit for publication, is read (and, no doubt, a public which devoured 'Scrawled Black' will stand almost anything), it will be...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Annabel was one of Baum's first efforts to write a novel for adolescent girls. Will Carden, the novel's protagonist, is fifteen years old at the start of the story. His family has "come down"...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: In this darkly hilarious World War I-era satire, an affluent British family finds itself being whisked away to a land of fairies, where the matriarch is crowned as queen. They gradually begin to introduce British mores and traditions in their new land -- with decidedly mixed results.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: I always imagine St. Andrews to be an ineffectual seat of learning, and the sound of the east wind and the bursting surf to linger in its drowsy classrooms and confound the utterance of the professor......

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Nobody goes there unless he has a very good reason for going. Iss it not so? No harm iss done where none iss meant," said Arenberg, in a tone half of apology and half of inquiry. Middleton laughed...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: THE LONELY CABIN. 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...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Orissa Kane, self-reliant and full of sparkling good nature, under-study for her brother, prospective inventor and aviator. Orissa and her friend Sybil fly off in a new aeroplane for adventures which test...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: People through our Northern cities have little or no idea of the great and prominent feature which these military hospitals and convalescent camps make in and around Washington. There are not merely two or three or a dozen, but some fifty of them, of different degrees of capacity