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This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady.

"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-Webster, stands for two healthy-minded young men who have put their heads together and who have mapped out this story of a railroad war, in which politics form a considerable part. Jim Weeks is the central figure in the fight, and we like him so much better for knowing of the romance in his early life. He was a man 'without much instinct or imagination; he took everything seriously and literally, he could not understand a whim'--therefore a very foolish little woman came into his life only to leave it desolate. And when we meet him again after the ye...

Short and sweet stories for children.

Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise was offered the opportunity to write for The Herald about her travel adventures. It was at this point that Louise chose the name “Shirley” as her pen name. Dame Shirley wrote a series of 23 letters to her sister Mary Jane (also known as Molly) in Massachusetts in 1851 and 1852. The “Shirley Letters”, as the collected whole later became known, gave true accounts of life in two gold mining camps on the Feather River in the 1850s. She described these camps in Northern California with vividness in portraying the wildness of Gold Rush life. The letters g...

This is a compilation of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction first published in the year 1910, from a personal choice by the readers. Submissions could be in any language (all except one are in English). The aim is to give people an idea of what our ancestors were reading 100 years ago.

The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historical novel by an author who had earlier disapproved of historical novels on the ground that they inevitably distort history. Pharaoh has been described by Czesław Miłosz as a "novel on mechanisms of state power and, as such, probably unique in world literature of the nineteenth century.... Prus, in selecting the reign of 'Pharaoh Ramses XIII' in the eleventh century BCE, sought a perspective that was detached from pressures of topicality and censorship. Pharaoh is set in the Egypt of 1087–85 BCE as that country experiences internal stresses and external ...

Serie portretjes van kinderen op een volksschool begin jaren '20, eerder verschenen in de NRC.

Voorwoord bij de 1e druk: "Niet zonder schroom trokken de ‘Kinderen uit m’n klas’ voor ‘t eerst de wijde wereld in. Bij de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant vonden ze een gastvrij onderdak en tot hun groote vreugde werden ze door de lezers van dat blad zeer hartelijk ontvangen. Veel vrienden mochten ze zich verwerven en zelfs ontvingen ze herhaaldelijk de uitnoodiging, om nog eens en dan te samen te verschijnen. Zoo staan ze dan gereed voor de nieuwe reis, trotsch op het keurige pakje, waarin ze voor deze gelegenheid gestoken zijn en echt in hun schik, dat ze voortaan bij elkaar mogen blijven....

Jürg Jenatsch ist der Titel eines 1876 erschienenen historischen Romans von Conrad Ferdinand Meyer über den Bündner Pfarrer und Militärführer Georg Jenatsch. Der Roman spielt in der Zeit des Dreißigjährigen Krieges. Zu Beginn des Krieges streben die Spanier danach, Graubünden unter ihre Gewalt zu bringen um damit die strategisch wichtigen Bergpässe unter Kontrolle zu bekommen. Den Spaniern tritt der junge protestantische Pastor Jürg Jenatsch entgegen. Er ist Anführer der protestantischen Bündnern, die angetreten sind, ihre Heimat zu verteidigen. Sein Gegenspieler auf der katholischen Seite ist der Freiherr Pompejus Planta. (Zusammenfassung von Wikipedia)

When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especially when the lions come to life and help take care of them. This is a delightful book for young girls but retains some adult appeal. The author Mrs Molesworth has been called "the Jane Austen of the nursery.

Der Abentheuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch ist ein Schelmenroman von Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, erschienen 1668. Er wird gemeinhin als das wichtigste Werk seiner Art im 17. Jahrhundert betrachtet. Ferner gilt er als der erste deutschsprachige Abenteuerroman mit stark autobiographischen Zügen, da er die Lebenswege von Autor und Held im Dreißigjährigen Krieg (1618–1648) teilweise zusammenführt, ohne sie freilich zur Deckungsgleichheit zu bringen.