Classic Collection 600: 283 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is the story of seven incorrigible children living near Sydney in the 1880’s with their military-man father, and a stepmother who is scarcely older than the oldest child of the family....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City – times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully auditions for a...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: One of Bailey’s “Sleepy-Time Tales,” this is the story of Timothy Turtle, a grumpy old turtle trying to live his life alongside Black Creek. Timothy’s adventures lead him to encounters...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Cr“I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science — a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumely.The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with her children, to go to Paris as hostages. Guy Aylmer...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the “pale-faces” and the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the first novels in the English language. Published in 1742 and...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Frozen Deep is a story of a love triangle between Clara, Frank and Richard, spiced up with dangerous expeditions, mysterious visions and life-threatening circumstances. The end is as surprising...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A charming little book full of the most gorgeous illustrations. We see a number of stories in which kindness is rewarded and selfishness is punished but Brooke squeezes a number of intriguing...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the “moral”), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed....

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton is a "bipartite adventure story whose first half covers a traversal of Africa, and whose second half taps into the contemporary...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and...