The Classic Children's Literature Collection: 39 Classic Novels Read online

  CHAPTER 1.A TERRIBLE LOSS

  CHAPTER 2.THE TROUBLES OF GLINDA THE GOOD

  CHAPTER 3.THE ROBBERY OF CAYKE THE COOKIE COOK

  CHAPTER 4.AMONG THE WINKIES

  CHAPTER 5.OZMA’S FRIENDS ARE PERPLEXED

  CHAPTER 6.THE SEARCH PARTY

  CHAPTER 7.THE MERRY-GO-ROUND MOUNTAINS

  CHAPTER 8.THE MYSTERIOUS CITY

  CHAPTER 9.THE HIGH COCO-LORUM OF THI

  CHAPTER 10.TOTO LOSES SOMETHING

  CHAPTER 11.BUTTON-BRIGHT LOSES HIMSELF

  CHAPTER 12.THE CZAROVER OF HERKU

  CHAPTER 13.THE TRUTH POND

  CHAPTER 14 .THE UNHAPPY FERRYMAN

  CHAPTER 15.THE BIG LAVENDER BEAR

  CHAPTER 16.THE LITTLE PINK BEAR

  CHAPTER 17.THE MEETING

  CHAPTER 18.THE CONFERENCE

  CHAPTER 19.UGU THE SHOEMAKER

  CHAPTER 20.ORE SURPRISES

  CHAPTER 21.MAGIC AGAINST MAGIC

  CHAPTER 22.IN THE WICKER CASTLE

  CHAPTER 23.THE DEFIANCE OF UGU THE SHOEMAKER

  CHAPTER 24.THE LITTLE PINK BEAR SPEAKS TRULY

  CHAPTER 25.OZMA OF OZ

  CHAPTER 26.DOROTHY FORGIVES

  The Tin Woodman of Oz L. Frank Baum

  Chapter One.Woot the Wanderer

  Chapter Two.The Heart of the Tin Woodman

  Chapter Three.Roundabout

  Chapter Four.The Loons of Loonville

  Chapter Five.Mrs. Yoop, the Giantess

  Chapter Six.The Magic of a Yookoohoo

  Chapter Seven.The Lace Apron

  Chapter Eight.The Menace of the Forest

  Chapter Nine.The Quarrelsome Dragons

  Chapter Ten.Tommy Kwikstep

  Chapter Eleven.Jinjur’s Ranch

  Chapter Twelve.Ozma and Dorothy

  Chapter Thirteen.The Restoration

  Chapter Fourteen.The Green Monkey

  Chapter Fifteen.The Man of Tin

  Chapter Sixteen.Captain Fyter

  Chapter Seventeen.The Workshop of Ku-Klip

  Chapter Eighteen.The Tin Woodman Talks to Himself

  Chapter Nineteen.The Invisible Country

  Chapter Twenty.Over Night

  Chapter Twenty-One.Polychrome’s Magic

  Chapter Twenty-Two.Nimmie Amee

  Chapter Twenty-Three.Through the Tunnel

  Chapter Twenty-Four.The Curtain Falls

  The Magic of Oz L. Frank Baum

  1. Mount Munch

  2. The Hawk

  3. Two Bad Ones

  4. Conspirators

  5. A Happy Corner of Oz

  6. Ozma’s Birthday Presents

  7. The Forest of Gugu

  8. The Li-Mon-Eags Make Trouble

  9. The Isle of the Magic Flower

  10. Stuck Fast

  11. The Beasts of the Forest of Gugu

  12. Kiki Uses His Magic

  13. The Loss of the Black Bag

  14. The Wizard Learns the Magic Word

  15. The Lonesome Duck

  16. The Glass Cat Finds the Black Bag

  17. A Remarkable Journey

  18. The Magic of the Wizard

  19. Dorothy and the Bumble Bees

  20. The Monkeys Have Trouble

  21. The College of Athletic Arts

  22. Ozma’s Birthday Party

  23. The Fountain of Oblivion

  Glinda of Oz L. Frank Baum

  Chapter One.The Call to Duty

  Chapter Two.Ozma and Dorothy

  Chapter Three.The Mist Maidens

  Chapter Four.The Magic Tent

  Chapter Five.The Magic Stairway

  Chapter Six.Flathead Mountain

  Chapter Seven.The Magic Isle

  Chapter Eight.Queen Coo-ee-oh

  Chapter Nine.Lady Aurex

  Chapter Ten,Under Water

  Chapter Eleven.The Conquest of the Skeezers

  Chapter Twelve.The Diamond Swan

  Chapter Thirteen.The Alarm Bell

  Chapter Fourteen.Ozma’s Counsellors

  Chapter Fifteen.The Great Sorceress

  Chapter Sixteen.The Enchanted Fishes

  Chapter Seventeen.Under the Great Dome

  Chapter Eighteen.The Cleverness of Ervic

  Chapter Nineteen.Red Reera, the Yookoohoo

  Chapter Twenty.A Puzzling Problem

  Chapter Twenty-One.The Three Adepts

  Chapter Twenty-Two.The Sunken Island

  Chapter Twenty-Three.The Magic Words

  Chapter Twenty-Four.Glinda’s Triumph

  Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

  CHAPTER I. Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised

  CHAPTER II. Matthew Cuthbert is surprised

  CHAPTER III. Marilla Cuthbert is Surprised

  CHAPTER IV. Morning at Green Gables

  CHAPTER V. Anne’s History

  CHAPTER VI. Marilla Makes Up Her Mind

  CHAPTER VII. Anne Says Her Prayers

  CHAPTER VIII. Anne’s Bringing-up Is Begun

  CHAPTER IX. Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified

  CHAPTER X. Anne’s Apology

  CHAPTER XI. Anne’s Impressions of Sunday-School

  CHAPTER XII. A Solemn Vow and Promise

  CHAPTER XIII. The Delights of Anticipation

  CHAPTER XIV. Anne’s Confession

  CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot

  CHAPTER XVI. Diana Is Invited to Tea with Tragic Results

  CHAPTER XVII. A New Interest in Life

  CHAPTER XVIII. Anne to the Rescue

  CHAPTER XIX. A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession

  CHAPTER XX. A Good Imagination Gone Wrong

  CHAPTER XXI. A New Departure in Flavorings

  CHAPTER XXII. Anne is Invited Out to Tea

  CHAPTER XXIII. Anne Comes to Grief in an Affair of Honor

  CHAPTER XXIV. Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert

  CHAPTER XXV. Matthew Insists on Puffed Sleeves

  CHAPTER XXVI. The Story Club Is Formed

  CHAPTER XXVII. Vanity and Vexation of Spirit

  CHAPTER XXVIII. An Unfortunate Lily Maid

  CHAPTER XXIX. An Epoch in Anne’s Life

  CHAPTER XXX. The Queens Class Is Organized

  CHAPTER XXXI. Where the Brook and River Meet

  CHAPTER XXXII. The Pass List Is Out

  CHAPTER XXXIII. The Hotel Concert

  CHAPTER XXXIV. A Queen’s Girl

  CHAPTER XXXV. The Winter at Queen’s

  CHAPTER XXXVI. The Glory and the Dream

  CHAPTER XXXVII. The Reaper Whose Name Is Death

  CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Bend in the road

  Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery

  CHAPTER I. An Irate Neighbor

  CHAPTER II. Selling in Haste and Repenting at Leisure

  CHAPTER III. Mr. Harrison at Home

  CHAPTER IV. Different Opinions

  CHAPTER V. A Full-fledged Schoolma’am

  CHAPTER VI. All Sorts and Conditions of Men . . . and women

  CHAPTER VII. The Pointing of Duty

  CHAPTER VIII. Marilla Adopts Twins

  CHAPTER IX. A Question of Color

  CHAPTER X. Davy in Search of a Sensation

  CHAPTER XI. Facts and Fancies

  CHAPTER XII. A Jonah Day

  CHAPTER XIII. A Golden Picnic

  CHAPTER XIV. A Danger Averted

  CHAPTER XV. The Beginning of Vacation

  CHAPTER XVI. The Substance of Things Hoped For

  CHAPTER XVII. A Chapter of Accidents

  CHAPTER XVIII. An Adventure on the Tory Road

  CHAPTER XIX. Just a Happy Day

  CHAPTER XX. The Way It Often Happens

  CHAPTER XXI. Sweet Miss Lavendar

  CHAPTER XXII. Odds and Ends

  CHAPTER XXIII. Miss Lavendar’s Romance

  CHAPTER XXIV. A Prophet in His Own Country

  CHAPTER XXV. An Avonlea Scandal

  CHAPTER XXVI. Around the Bend

  CHAPTER XXVII. An
Afternoon at the Stone House

  CHAPTER XXVIII. The Prince Comes Back to the Enchanted Palace

  CHAPTER XXIX. Poetry and Prose

  CHAPTER XXX. A Wedding at the Stone House

  Anne of the Island Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Chapter I.The Shadow of Change

  Chapter II.Garlands of Autumn

  Chapter III.Greeting and Farewell

  Chapter IV.April’s Lady

  Chapter V.Letters from Home

  Chapter VI.In the Park

  Chapter VII.Home Again

  Chapter VIII.Anne’s First Proposal

  Chapter IX.An Unwelcome Lover and a Welcome Friend

  Chapter X.Patty’s Place

  Chapter XI.The Round of Life

  Chapter XII.’Averil’s Atonement’

  Chapter XIII.The Way of Transgressors

  Chapter XIV.The Summons

  Chapter XV.A Dream Turned Upside Down

  Chapter XVI.Adjusted Relationships

  Chapter XVII.A Letter from Davy

  Chapter XVIII.Miss Josephine Remembers the Anne-girl

  Chapter XIX.An Interlude

  Chapter XX.Gilbert Speaks

  Chapter XXI.Roses of Yesterday

  Chapter XXII.Spring and Anne Return to Green Gables

  Chapter XXIII.Paul Cannot Find the Rock People

  Chapter XXIV.Enter Jonas

  Chapter XXV.Enter Prince Charming

  Chapter XXVI.Enter Christine

  Chapter XXVII.Mutual Confidences

  Chapter XXVIII.A June Evening

  Chapter XXIX.Diana’s Wedding

  Chapter XXX.Mrs. Skinner’s Romance

  Chapter XXXI.Anne to Philippa

  Chapter XXXII.Tea with Mrs. Douglas

  Chapter XXXIII.’He Just Kept Coming and Coming’

  Chapter XXXIV.John Douglas Speaks at Last

  Chapter XXXV.The Last Redmond Year Opens

  Chapter XXXVI.The Gardners’Call

  Chapter XXXVII.Full-fledged B.A.’s

  Chapter XXXVIII.False Dawn

  Chapter XXXIX.Deals with Weddings

  Chapter XL.A Book of Revelation

  Chapter XLI. Love Takes Up the Glass of Time

  Anne’s House of Dreams Lucy Maud Montgomery

  CHAPTER 1. IN THE GARRET OF GREEN GABLES

  CHAPTER 2.THE HOUSE OF DREAMS

  CHAPTER 3.THE LAND OF DREAMS AMONG

  CHAPTER 4.THE FIRST BRIDE OF GREEN GABLES

  CHAPTER 5.THE HOME COMING

  CHAPTER 6.CAPTAIN JIM

  CHAPTER 7.THE SCHOOLMASTER’S BRIDE

  CHAPTER 8.MISS CORNELIA BRYANT COMES TO CALL

  CHAPTER 9.AN EVENING AT FOUR WINDS POINT

  CHAPTER 10.LESLIE MOORE

  CHAPTER 11.THE STORY OF LESLIE MOORE

  CHAPTER 12.LESLIE COMES OVER

  CHAPTER 13.A GHOSTLY EVENING

  CHAPTER 14.NOVEMBER DAYS

  CHAPTER 15.CHRISTMAS AT FOUR WINDS

  CHAPTER 16.NEW YEAR’S EVE AT THE LIGHT

  CHAPTER 17.A FOUR WINDS WINTER

  CHAPTER 18.SPRING DAYS

  CHAPTER 19.DAWN AND DUSK

  CHAPTER 20.LOST MARGARET

  CHAPTER 21.BARRIERS SWEPT AWAY

  CHAPTER 22.MISS CORNELIA ARRANGES MATTERS

  CHAPTER 23.OWEN FORD COMES

  CHAPTER 24.THE LIFE-BOOK OF CAPTAIN JIM

  CHAPTER 25.THE WRITING OF THE BOOK

  CHAPTER 26.OWEN FORD’S CONFESSION

  CHAPTER 27.ON THE SAND BAR

  CHAPTER 28.ODDS AND ENDS

  CHAPTER 29.GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE

  CHAPTER 30.LESLIE DECIDES

  CHAPTER 31.THE TRUTH MAKES FREE

  CHAPTER 32.MISS CORNELIA DISCUSSES THE AFFAIR

  CHAPTER 33.LESLIE RETURNS

  CHAPTER 34.THE SHIP O’DREAMS COMES TO HARBOR

  CHAPTER 35.POLITICS AT FOUR WINDS

  CHAPTER 36.BEAUTY FOR ASHES

  CHAPTER 37.MISS CORNELIA MAKES A STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT

  CHAPTER 38.RED ROSES

  CHAPTER 39.CAPTAIN JIM CROSSES THE BAR

  CHAPTER 40.FAREWELL TO THE HOUSE OF DREAMS

  Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud Montgomery

  CHAPTER I. HOME AGAIN

  CHAPTER II. SHEER GOSSIP

  CHAPTER III. THE INGLESIDE CHILDREN

  CHAPTER IV. THE MANSE CHILDREN

  CHAPTER V. THE ADVENT OF MARY VANCE

  CHAPTER VI. MARY STAYS AT THE MANSE

  CHAPTER VII. A FISHY EPISODE

  CHAPTER VIII. MISS CORNELIA INTERVENES

  CHAPTER IX. UNA INTERVENES

  CHAPTER X. THE MANSE GIRLS CLEAN HOUSE

  CHAPTER XI. A DREADFUL DISCOVERY

  CHAPTER XII. AN EXPLANATION AND A DARE

  CHAPTER XIII. THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

  CHAPTER XIV. MRS. ALEC DAVIS MAKES A CALL

  CHAPTER XV. MORE GOSSIP

  CHAPTER XVI. TIT FOR TAT

  CHAPTER XVII. A DOUBLE VICTORY

  CHAPTER XVIII. MARY BRINGS EVIL TIDINGS

  CHAPTER XIX. POOR ADAM!

  CHAPTER XX. FAITH MAKES A FRIEND

  CHAPTER XXI. THE IMPOSSIBLE WORD

  CHAPTER XXII. ST. GEORGE KNOWS ALL ABOUT IT

  CHAPTER XXIII. THE GOOD-CONDUCT CLUB

  CHAPTER XXIV. A CHARITABLE IMPULSE

  CHAPTER XXV. ANOTHER SCANDAL AND ANOTHER ‘EXPLANATION’

  CHAPTER XXVI. MISS CORNELIA GETS A NEW POINT OF VIEW

  CHAPTER XXVII. A SACRED CONCERT

  CHAPTER XXVIII. A FAST DAY

  CHAPTER XXIX. A WEIRD TALE

  CHAPTER XXX. THE GHOST ON THE DYKE

  CHAPTER XXXI. CARL DOES PENANCE

  CHAPTER XXXII. TWO STUBBORN PEOPLE

  CHAPTER XXXIII. CARL IS-NOT-WHIPPED

  CHAPTER XXXIV. UNA VISITS THE HILL

  CHAPTER XXXV. ‘LET THE PIPER COME’

  Rilla of Ingleside Lucy Maud Montgomery

  CHAPTER I. GLEN ‘NOTES’ AND OTHER MATTERS

  CHAPTER II.DEW OF MORNING

  CHAPTER III.MOONLIT MIRTH

  CHAPTER IV.THE PIPER PIPES

  CHAPTER V.’THE SOUND OF A GOING’

  CHAPTER VI.SUSAN, RILLA, AND DOG MONDAY MAKE A RESOLUTION

  CHAPTER VII.A WAR-BABY AND A SOUP TUREEN

  CHAPTER VIII.RILLA DECIDES

  CHAPTER IX.DOC HAS A MISADVENTURE

  CHAPTER X.THE TROUBLES OF RILLA

  CHAPTER XI.DARK AND BRIGHT

  CHAPTER XII.IN THE DAYS OF LANGEMARCK

  CHAPTER XIII.A SLICE OF HUMBLE PIE

  CHAPTER XIV.THE VALLEY OF DECISION

  CHAPTER XV.UNTIL THE DAY BREAK

  CHAPTER XVI.REALISM AND ROMANCE

  CHAPTER XVII.THE WEEKS WEAR BY

  CHAPTER XVIII.A WAR-WEDDING

  CHAPTER XIX.’THEY SHALL NOT PASS’

  CHAPTER XX.NORMAN DOUGLAS SPEAKS OUT IN MEETING

  CHAPTER XXI.’LOVE AFFAIRS ARE HORRIBLE’

  CHAPTER XXII.LITTLE DOG MONDAY KNOWS

  CHAPTER XXIII.’AND SO, GOODNIGHT’

  CHAPTER XXIV.MARY IS JUST IN TIME

  CHAPTER XXV.SHIRLEY GOES

  CHAPTER XXVI.SUSAN HAS A PROPOSAL OF MARRIAGE

  CHAPTER XXVII.WAITING

  CHAPTER XXVIII.BLACK SUNDAY

  CHAPTER XXIX.’WOUNDED AND MISSING’

  CHAPTER XXX.THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

  CHAPTER XXXI.MRS. MATILDA PITTMAN

  CHAPTER XXXII.WORD FROM JEM

  CHAPTER XXXIII.VICTORY!

  CHAPTER XXXIV.MR. HYDE GOES TO HIS OWN PLACE AND SUSAN TAKES A HONEYMOON

  CHAPTER XXXV.’RILLA-MY-RILLA!’

  Peter Pan By J.M. Barrie

  Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH

  Chapter 2 THE SHADOW

  Chapter 3 COME AWAY, COME AWAY!

  Chapter 4 THE FLIGHT

  Chapter 5 THE ISLAND COME TRUE

  Chapter 6 THE LITTLE HOUSE

  Chapter 7 THE HOME UNDER THE GROUND

  Chapter 8 THE MERMAIDS’ LAGOON

  Chapter 9 THE NEVER BIRD
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br />   Chapter 10 THE HAPPY HOME

  Chapter 11 WENDY’S STORY

  Chapter 12 THE CHILDREN ARE CARRIED OFF

  Chapter 13 DO YOU BELIEVE IN FAIRIES?

  Chapter 14 THE PIRATE SHIP

  Chapter 15 ‘HOOK OR ME THIS TIME’

  Chapter 16 THE RETURN HOME

  Chapter 17 WHEN WENDY GREW UP

  A Little Princess BY Frances Hodgson Burnett

  1.Sara

  2.A French Lesson

  3.Ermengarde

  4.Lottie

  5.Becky

  6.The Diamond Mines

  7.The Diamond Mines Again

  8.In the Attic

  9.Melchisedec

  10.The Indian Gentleman

  11.Ram Dass

  12.The Other Side of the Wall

  13.One of the Populace

  14.What Melchisedec Heard and Saw

  15.The Magic

  16.The Visitor

  17.’It Is the Child!’

  18.’I Tried Not to Be’

  19.Anne

  The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett

  CHAPTER I.THERE IS NO ONE LEFT

  CHAPTER II.MISTRESS MARY QUITE CONTRARY

  CHAPTER III.ACROSS THE MOOR

  CHAPTER IV.MARTHA

  CHAPTER V.THE CRY IN THE CORRIDOR

  CHAPTER VI.’THERE WAS SOME ONE CRYING-THERE WAS!’

  CHAPTER VII.THE KEY TO THE GARDEN

  CHAPTER VIII.THE ROBIN WHO SHOWED THE WAY

  CHAPTER IX.THE STRANGEST HOUSE ANY ONE EVER LIVED IN

  CHAPTER X.DICKON

  CHAPTER XI.THE NEST OF THE MISSEL THRUSH

  CHAPTER XII.’MIGHT I HAVE A BIT OF EARTH?’

  CHAPTER XIII.’I AM COLIN’

  CHAPTER XIV.A YOUNG RAJAH

  CHAPTER XV.NEST BUILDING

  CHAPTER XVI.’I WON’T!’ SAID MARY

  CHAPTER XVII.A TANTRUM

  CHAPTER XVIII.’THA’ MUNNOT WASTE NO TIME’

  CHAPTER XIX.’IT HAS COME!’

  CHAPTER XX.’I SHALL LIVE FOREVER-AND EVER-AND EVER!’

  CHAPTER XXI.BEN WEATHERSTAFF

  CHAPTER XXII.WHEN THE SUN WENT DOWN

  CHAPTER XXIII.MAGIC

  CHAPTER XXIV.’LET THEM LAUGH’

  CHAPTER XXV.THE CURTAIN

  CHAPTER XXVI.’IT’S MOTHER!’

  CHAPTER XXVII.IN THE GARDEN

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll

  CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole

  CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears

  CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale

  CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill

  CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar

  CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper

  CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party

  CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground

  CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story

  CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille

  CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?

  CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

  Preface

  Chapter I

  Chapter II

  Chapter III

  Chapter IV

  Chapter V