Classic Collection 600: 283 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Out for a walk in London one day, Gip and his father happen upon a magic shop. At Gip's urging, the two go in — and things grow more and more curious by the minute. Counters, store fixtures, and mirrors...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: J. Arbuthnot Wilson (pseudonym of the real author, Grant Allen) tells this short story of his strange night spent inside "the great unopened Pyramid of Abu Yilla" in Egypt. On New Year's Eve,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Dream Days is a collection of children’s fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame’s 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Saki was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro (1870 – 1916). His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Henny Penny, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs, Red Riding Hood and a host of immortal characters are found in this delightful...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: “Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich” is a work of humorous fiction by Stephen Leacock first published in 1914. It is the follow-up to his 1912 classic “Sunshine Sketches of a Little...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Leonard Leslie Brooke was a talented nineteenth/early twentieth century illustrator who also wrote some delightful children's books. He was well-known for his caricatures, portrait and landscape...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. FIND AND ENJOY!

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: First serialized in Punch magazine in 1845, and officially published in book form in 1846, Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures presents a collection of 37 lectures delivered by Mrs. Caudle to her husband...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as “fables” though many are without obvious moral. FIND AND ENJOY!

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe, known among themselves as Noongahburrahs FIND AND ENJOY!

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. FIND AND ENJOY!

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: When the absent-minded Earl of Emsworth wanders off with the pride of his scarab collection, American millionaire J. Preston Peters is willing to pay $5000 to the person who can get it back for...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Although the book's title Black Ivory denotes dealing in the slave trade it is not our heroes who are doing it. At the very first chapter there is a shipwreck, which leaves the son of the charterer...