Edward Everett: 39 books

This little book is not so much a guide book in itself as an introduction or key to local guides,or a preparation for conversation with intelligent Boston people, who will meet a newcomer into that town. Every summer there arrive people from different parts of the world who have a curiosity about...

To these days, the best authorities agree that the children and the grown people of the world have never been mistaken when they have said: “America was discovered in 1492 by Christopher Columbus, a native of Genoa". But what do we really know about the man behind this name, the life behind...

European colonization of America occurred as a result of the bravery and discoveries of great navigators, visionaries and adventurers. This carefully edited collection presents the lives of the most influential explorers of North America: Eric the Red, Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Amerigo Vespucci,...

This classic novel has been abridged and adapted into 10 illustrated chapters. This format is ideal for bilingual education - people learning English as a second language (ESL),  English Language Learners (ELL), people of any age intending to improve reading skills and students for whom the original...

Lowell (1819-1891) was a leading figure in the popular and family-friendly Fireside School of Poets. Critic, editor, and diplomat, he was also a prominent abolitionist. This 1899 memoir, by a man who knew Lowell well, traces the poet’s progress throughout his life—in college and through war and foreign service—as well as providing a glimpse of Boston in the 1840s.

"What would young life be without "Puss in Boots" and "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Sleeping Beauty"? Our Treasury would indeed be poor without them, so these Favorite Stories come next, yoked with some Old-Fashioned Poems in story-form, as "The Night before...

A parable of a man rejecting his own country and condemned to live without one.

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasion of the first Christmas celebrated by the King of Italy in Rome. The first story has never before been published. It is but fair to say that I have not drawn...

Una colección de historias de autores estadounidenses famosos.

This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories: Contents: They Saw A Great Light Christmas Waits In Boston. Alice's Christmas-Tree. Daily Bread. Stand And Wait. The Two Princes. The Story Of Oello. Love Is The Whole. Christmas And Rome. The Survivor's Story. The Same Christmas In Old England And New.