Treasureword Classics: 174 books

Historic documents are interspersed with invented narrative to tell the story of this heroine's unhappy life and the severity with which she was treated by her father the Reverend Samuel Wesley.

Herbert Penfold, being desirous of benefiting the daughter of an intimate friend, and Ralph Conway, the son of a lady to whom he had once been engaged, draws up a will dividing his property between them, and places it in a hiding-place only known to members of his own family. At his death his two...

A tale of mystery and adventure, in which a young orphan boy turns his life around after he loses his parents in a car crash.

A steamer wrecks off the coast of Britney and fate works to re-unite a family as only Louis Tracy and render it.

A Laodicean is a novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1881. Set in the more technologically advanced contemporaneous age, the plot exhibits devices uncommon for Hardy, such as falsified telegrams and faked photographs.

A classic collection of ghost stories by S. Baring-Gould.

A historical novel which features The Luddites, who were 19th-century English textile workers who protested against newly developed labor-economizing technologies from 1811 to 1816.

A story which centers about a trio of English school girls. The most intellectual of the three learns that she must leave school for financial reasons; the wealthy one learns that by winning a certain prize her cherished hope of leaving school and traveling with an aunt in France will be realized;...

Marcia Aldworth is obliged, much to the regret of her pupils, to return to England to superintend the nursing of an invalid step-mother. Marcia does her duty bravely, but is misunderstood by her sisters, who take turns at the nursing, but shirk their duty, until a friend exercises a good influence over them.

A very select English school for girls is the scene. The refusal of one of the pupils to enact Helen of Troy in a series of tableaux, based on Tennyson's "Dream of Fair Women," given at the closing of the spring term, is the motive of the whole story. It leads a poor and neglected girl to...

A classic story for girls, by L.T. Meade.

A children's novel which relates the experiences of an hospital nurse among the English soldiers in South Africa, during the Boer War.

Chronicles the adventures of two street urchins, Flo and Dick, and their dog, Scamp, who is stolen and fated to be used in a dog fight.

The scene of the story is laid among the coal fields of Wales and the narrative itself concerns the every-day life of one of the landed families in that section. The account of the spiritual awakening and after life of Gladys, and the peaceful and forgiving spirit of her brother lend an air to the volume that will benefit as well as interest the reader.