Through the Looking-Glass
One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:—it was the black kitten’s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been ha...
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Joseph the Dreamer
This is the story of Joseph, the boy who had the strangest and most exciting adventures of any boy who ever lived.Joseph was but a little lad when his...
tales of daring and danger
“Uncle, I am quite disappointed. Mrs. Lyons showed me the bear she has got tied up in their compound, and it is the most wretched little thing, not bi...
The Magic Pudding
The plain truth was that Bunyip and his Uncle lived in a small house in a tree, and there was no room for the whiskers. What was worse, the whiskers w...
The Ordeal of Mark Twain
For some time before his death Mark Twain had appeared before the public in the rôle less of a laughing philosopher than of a somewhat gloomy prophet ...
The First Capture
General Gage, the commander of the British troops who were quartered in Boston about this time, had become a tyrant in the eyes of the people. When sp...
A Boy of the Dominion
It was just past ten o’clock on a chilly morning in the early spring when Joe Bradley emerged from the shop door of the little house which had been hi...
A Crystal Age
Glad and grateful at having escaped with unbroken bones from such a dangerous accident, I set out walking along the edge of the ravine, which soon bro...
With Joffre at Verdun
You’d have said, if you had glanced casually at Henri de Farquissaire, that he was British—British from the well-trimmed head of hair beneath his ligh...
Sense and Sensibility
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their proper...