Jacob Abbott's Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief cha …
Television and computers may be chief source of entertainment in today's fast-paced society, but classic literature will never die. These are the work …
Television and computers may be chief source of entertainment in today's fast-paced society, but classic literature will never die. These are the work …
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re- …
Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, was a novel written by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard Narrated in the first person by …
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure s …
Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, Jr., USN (October 25, 1888 - March 11, 1957) was a naval officer who specialized in feats of exploration. He was a p …
When the World Screamed was a story written about Professor Challenger by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Liberty Magazine, 25 Febru …
What Men Live By is a short story written by Russian author Leo Tolstoy in 1885. It is one of the short stories included in his collaboration called W …
In this short story, a land owner named Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to the house of the o …