Quench Editions imprint: 511 books

This file includes: Father Sergius, Master and Man, What Men Live by and Other Tales, The Cause of It All, The First Distiller, Fruits of Culture, The Light Shines in Darkness, The Live Corpse, The Power of Darkness, and War and Peace. According to Wikipedia: "Leo Tolstoy, or Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy...

Fairy tale collection compiled by the renowned poet, first published in 1892. According to Wikipedia: "William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments,...

This file includes: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Sylvie and Bruno, Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, The Game of Logic, and The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood). And active/linked table of contents helps you got quickly to the book you want....

This file includes: Books for Children (Tales from Shakespear, The Adventures of Ulysses, Mrs. Leicester's School, The Kind and Queen of Hearts, Poetry for Children, and Prince Dorus), Elia and Last Essays of Elia, Letters 1796-1820, Letters 1821-1842, Poems and Plays, Rosamund Gray and Selected Essays...

Biography for children, first published in 1922.

1911 edition of the classic reference book. According to Wikipedia: "Roget's Thesaurus is a widely used English language thesaurus, created by Dr. Peter Mark Roget (17791869) in 1805 and released to the public on 29 April 1852. The original edition had 15,000 words, and each new edition has been larger......

This book is not a series of fictitious adventures of the great Captain Cook, the eighteenth century navigator and explorer, but a straightforward statement of his life and achievements. It is therefore more of a biography than an adventure book for boys. However, the man was so great that his biography...

It is in the middle of the sixteenth century, and in Spain, where the Inquisition, and subsequent torturing and burning to death by the Catholic Church, of those who would not agree to its tenets, is getting under way. An Archbishop calls at the house of a former friend of his, a woman who had refused...

Classic collection of fairy tales. According to Wikipedia: "Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales." With the active (hyperlinked) table of contents, click on a story title to go to that story.

A very short book, and a fairly early one of the author's. The subject matter is the early days of the Reformation, and the time at which the Roman Church was trying to prevent ordinary people from reading the Bible in general, and the Gospels in particular. The Woodcutter with his son and his donkey...

First published in 1902, this collection of stories incudes: Careless Jane, Boisterous Ann, The Brother and Sister, Georgie Lie-a-Bed, Untidy Amanda, The Child Who Would Not Go to Bed, The Beet, The Robber Rat, Grandfather Stork, Old Mother Webtoes, The Rabbit Witch, and Peter and the Ogress.

Instruction in practical household technology, first published in 1914. 60 black-and-white illustrations. "In language which every boy can understand and so arranged the he may readily carry out any work form the instructions given... This book takes the beginner through a comprehensive series of practical...

Four-act play. According to Wikipedia: "Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr. (1878 - 1968), was a prolific American author who wrote over 90 books in many genres and was widely considered to be one of the best investigators advocating socialist views. He achieved co

Short collection of poems for children. According to Wikipedia: "Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland; 15 August 1858 4 May 1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several...