Young Readers Books

Heart of the West

O. Henry

The Heart of the West is entirely comprised of stories set in the American West, and may have been partially based on tales—tall or true—which O Henry heard during his wanderings in Texas and Mexico.T..

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 01

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, an..

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a novel by J. M. Barrie, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, and published by Hodder & Stoughton in late November or early December 1906; it is one of four major lite..

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Carmilla is an 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula by 26 years. First published in 1872, it ..

The Best Ghost Stories

Various Authors

Good ghost stories have been told for millennia in some form or another, and no matter how old you are, they never go out of style. This is a collection from 1919 of various ghost stories by a range o..

The Lost Princess of Oz

L. Frank Baum

Who is stealing all the magic in Oz? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way, ..

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03

Sir Richard Francis Burton

 This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Pers..

A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

Beatrix Potter

What can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his mis-adventures, progressing through The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle whose funny name is just t..