Anamsaleem: 299 books

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This collection of children’s tales by the great Charles Dickens includes the following works: LITTLE DAVID COPPERFIELD. From "David Copperfield" JENNY WREN. From "Our Mutual Friend "PIP'S ADVENTURE. From "Great Expectations" TODGERS' and many more.

Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and...

A story about the Girl Scouts, and how they learn canoeing. This is recommended for young ladies ages 6 to 18 or more. This is a Green Bird Publication of a quality soft cover.

One of the most popular fiction writers of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope's novels still attract an ardent readership today. Originally serialized in a magazine, Mr. Scarborough's Family is a mystery novel of sorts, bringing together Trollope's keen insight into human behavior and an enthralling suspense plot.

Quill's Window is a landmark--an abrupt hill in a flat part of Indiana. Round it is woven the romance of a girl who is lovely even for an Indiana heroine. Two men woo her and one, of course, wins her. The story is told with the ease and skill of a writer who has a score of best sellers to his credit. In short it is a first rate novel of American life today.

"The Girl at the Halfway House" has been called an American epic by critics who have read the manuscript. The author illustrates the strange life of the great westward movement which became so marked in this country after the civil war.

The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed with him, it interwove at last completely with his being. His story is its story. It was traceably...

When it comes to juvenile fiction, is there any topic that so enchants little ones more than stories about fairies? The imaginative young reader in your life is sure to delight in Eleanor Hallowell Abbott's charming collection Fairy Prince and Other Stories.  

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( 27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898), better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well...

The novel opens with Carl Foster, a recently qualified doctor, coming to London to try and make his fortune. He meets a famous tenor, Signor Alresca, who suffers a dreadful injury backstage and Foster tends to him. He thus meets the lead soprano, Rosetta Rosa, and falls hopelessly in love with her....

In this book the three young heroes of "The Young Alaskans," led by half-breed guides, follow the trail of the early transcontinental explorers across the Rocky Mountain Divide.

"His Last Bow", published in September 1917, is one of 56 short stories about Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. On the eve of the First World War, the German agent Von Bork is getting ready to leave England with his vast collection of intelligence, gathered over a four-year...

"Cock Lane and Common-Sense" from Andrew Lang. Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology (1844-1912).