A Tale of Two Cities, An Epic tale which needs no introduction. This is a Project Gutenberg recreation. By: Charles Dickens   Text from A Tale of Two Cities Chapter I – The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age …

The classic novel Little Women, following the lives of four sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March—detailing their passage from childhood to womanhood, emphasising, periodically, the importance of domesticity, work, and true love, all of them interdependent and each necessary to the achievement of its heroine’s identity. By: Louise M Alcott Excerpt: (click on the link below …

A Christmas Carol the classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. By: Charles Dickens   Excerpt: Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And …

Peter Pan: The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up – The original script for the play of the classic tale of Peter Pan, first performed at Duke of York’s Theatre London’s Westend, 27th December 1904, and running for 145 performances. By: J.M. Barrie   Excerpt: Some disquieting confessions must be made in printing at last the play …

The Great Panjandrum Picture Book, A beautifully illustrated scanned copy of a classic collection of nursery rhymes style children’s stories from a time gone by. The classic collection of short children’s stories includes the infamous House that Jack Built. By: Randolph Caldecott Excerpt From The Great Panjandrum Picture Book Come Lasses and Lads, get leave of …

The original classic tale of Robin Hood, a vigilante robbing the rich to give to the poor, and saving Nottingham from it’s tyrannical rulers. The book is a reformatted version of the original text as published in 1883. By: Howard Pyle Excerpt from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood How Robin Hood Came to Be an …

What the Moon Saw, A scanned illustrated copy of Hans Christian Anderson’s classic stories. Engraved Etchings by AW Bayes, Translated by HW Dulcken Published 1866 George Routledge and Sons, London By: Hans Christian Anderson Excerpt What the Moon Saw and Other Stories INTRODUCTION. IT is a strange thing, that when I feel most fervently and most …

The Child’s first picture book, A poetic look into children’s picture books from a time gone by. A scanned pdf, with beautiful illustrations, and poetic versus, and formatted with one page of text opposing the illustrations. First published 1933, by an experimental psychologist, an educator, and written with the help of one hundred nursery children …

Many years before TS Elliot’s popular collection of poems, and many years before Andrew Lloyd Weber popularised it in the broadway musical, was The Book of the Cat. A beautifully illustrated well written collection of short storeys and poems about cats, including The Great Panjandrum, Snowball, and Mr Twinkletoes. Any cat person will identify with …

Mark Twain writes: Persons attempting to find a narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot will be shot. A classic tale of a young boy, written by a legendary writer. Wiki notes: It is a colourful description of people and places along the …