Christmas Stories is a collection of 38 classic Christmas stories, with each chapter a Christmas-themed photo or illustration is inserted. It is particularly recommended for...

Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott. Best known for the novels Little Women and Little Men, Louisa May Alcott brought the story of her feisty protagonist Jo and the adventures and...

The Ambassadors by Henry James. First published in 1903, the novel follows middle-aged Lambert Strether as he is dispatched from Massachusetts to Paris by his wealthy...

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. When the lovable, but lazy, Rip Van Winkle falls asleep on a nearby mountain, he awakens to find that nothing in his life will ever be the...

American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum. From the vivid imagination of L. Frank Baum, the visionary who created the legendary Wizard of Oz series, comes American Fairy Tales, a...

Time Enough at Last by Lynn Venable. For a long time, Henry Bemis had had an ambition. To read a book. Not just the title or the preface, or a page somewhere in the middle....

More William by Richmal Crompton. Join William for more mischief, mayhem and muddles as he gets up to his old tricks in More William, Richmal Compton's second set of classic...

Manalive by G. K. Chesterton. Perhaps the most light-hearted of all Chesterton's "serious" works, Manalive pits a group of disillusioned young people against Mr....

Heidi is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her paternal...

Will you vote 'Yes' for dragon control? Sign the petition, please.A short story.