Treasureword Classics: 174 books

A collection of short stories by Charles Egbert Craddock.

A coming of age story set in the mythical "golden age" of Spain. The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given his expertise with sword and mandolin he should be able to win his own estate and bride. Setting out to achieve his place...

A classic collection of stories by John Galsworthy, featuring the following:    VILLA RUBEIN,    A MAN OF DEVON,    A KNIGHT,    SALVATION OF A FORSYTE,    THE SILENCE.

A romance of the times of St. Bernard and of Queen Eleanor, both of whom figure in the story, the hero's fortune being interwoven with those of the gay young queen. The book brings out the enormous contrasts of the Middle Ages, the splendor of the great French and German barons with the abject misery of the poor of that age, besides being a vivid representation of a picturesque period.

A classic collection of war-related tales by Stephen Hudson.

Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly embarrasses him. Eventually, after his mother's death and...

In Canada, a man struggles to make a fortune from salmon fishing, and finds himself at odds with another man intent on creating a monopoly in the region.

The story is set just after the Union of Scotland and England (1707), in the Liddesdale hills of the Scottish Borders, familiar to Scott from his work collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. The main character is based on David Ritchie, whom Scott met in the autumn of 1797. In...

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

A classic Victorian "sensation" novel, full of intrigue and mystery. A sequel to Birds of Prey.

Novel about a frumpy young woman who gets help from a more glamorous friend to make herself over. She falls in love with man she thinks in unavailable, and staves off other suitors with a lie about an English fiancee which she comes to regret when people insist on meeting him. Hijinks involving assumed identities ensue.

Father Payne was an Anglican layman who had a very definite theory of life and faith - believing that it was possible to do much for the world by practising positive virtues, amd making a little centre of wholesome, laborious and eager life. This is his story.

Rosamund Lindley, an English girl, beseeches a wealthy but eccentric relative to aid her in a cherished project; he dismisses her with a promise of answering her definitely after a week, and within that time dies, bequeathing to Rosamund an antique ruby ring.

A whimsical tale of a quaint longshoreman and his struggles to get rich, and get into the European war as well.