Young Readers Books

The Annals of the Poor

Legh Richmond

The Annals of the Poor is a juvenile fiction story written by Legh Richmond, a Church of England clergyman and writer. He is noted for tracts, narratives of conversion that innovated in the relat..

The Brown Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Brown Fairy Book, the ninth in Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Book series, was originally published in 1904. This edition contains all 32 of the original stories and all 50 of the original black-a..

What a Young Woman Ought to Know

Mary Wood-Allen

What a Young Woman Ought to Know is a book which any mother can place with confidence in the hands of her daughter. Written by Mary Wood-Allen, an American doctor, social reformer, lecturer,..

Herland

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis. The result is ..

The Wide, Wide World

Susan Warner

The Wide, Wide World is an 1850 novel by Susan Warner, published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. It is often acclaimed as America's first bestseller...

Mogens, and Other Storie

J. P. Jacobsen

Mogens, and Other Stories is a collection of Danish short stories written byJens Peter Jacobsen, a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist, in Denmark often just written as "J. P. Jacobsen". He bega..

A Dominie in Doubt

Alexander Sutherland Neill

The continuation of Alexander Sutherland Neill's classic Dominie Series about a beloved school teacher whose engaging and nurturing methods educate students and help them mature. Neill's educational p..

Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethic

Alexander Bain

Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics is a book on ethics written by Alexander Bain, a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative f..