Aphorisms

Anne of Windy Poplars Lucy Maud Montgomery – Anne Shirley has left Redmond College behind to begin a new job and a new chapter of her life away from Green Gables. Now she faces a new challenge: the P …

Last Days of Pompeii – Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton – The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompe …

The Phoenix and the Carpet – Edith Nesbit – The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Chil …

Tarzan the Untamed Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Untamed is a book by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the seventh in his series of books about the title character Tarzan. It was originally …

Rainbow Valley – L. M. Montgomery – Rainbow Valley (1919) is the seventh book in the chronology of the Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery, although it was the fifth book published. I …

Lost on the Moon – Roy Rockwood – Roy Rockwood was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for boy’s adventure books. The name is mostly well-remembered for the Bomba, the Jungle Boy (192 …

The Romance of Tristan and Iseult – Joseph Bédier – The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Trist …

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories P. G. Wodehouse – The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on January 23, 1914. Including: The Man Upstairs …

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus L. Frank Baum – Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the d …

Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson – Being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751: how he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild hi …