Friday, April 9, 2010

Classic Lit Before 1923

More Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls by Caryll Houselander
Catholic Tales for Boys and Girls by Caryll Houselander
My Path to Heaven Former title: A Retreat with Saint Ignatius by Geoffrey Bliss
A Child's Garden of verses----Robert Stevenson
Cole's funny picture book---Edward Cole
Perez the mouse--Luis Coloma
The Adventures of Maya the bee --Waldemar Bonsels
Rupert the Bear---Mary Tourtel
Cautionary Tales of Children====Hilarie Belloc
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886

Specific ClassicS
Tales from Shakespeare (Children's Classics) by Charles Lamb,
The Children's Homer: The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy by Padraic Colum
Tales of the Greek Heroes (Puffin Classics) -- by Roger Lancelyn Green
Tales of Ancient Egypt (Puffin Classics) -- by Roger Lancelyn Green,
Tales from Old Ireland by Malachy Doyle,
The Pied Piper of Hamlin===Robert Browning


GENERAL SOURCES OF CLASSIC TALES AND FAIRY TALES
Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Anderson
Andrew Lang
Aseops Fables
Arabian Knights
American Tall Tales
Mother Goos/Kate Greenway
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
The Iliad/The Odyssey Homer
The house that Jack Built
Fairy Tales from the past---Charles Perrault
The adventures of Peach Boy
Tales of Otogizoshi ---
Traditional Chinese Folktales
Simple National Slovak Tales====Pavol Dobsinksy

William Shakespeare
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus -- Joel Chandler Harris


Beatrix Potter's animal tales
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk , The Adventures of Bobby Raccoon by Thornton W. Burgess

Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1988)
A House of Pomegranates(1892)

Herminie Templeton Kavanagh
Darby O'Gill and the Good People
Darby O'Gill / Ashes of Old Wishes and Other Darby O'Gill Tales
Darby O'Gill and the Crocks of Gold: And Other Irish Tales
Below Sleive-na-mon: Tales of Darby O'Gill and the Good People The Banshee's Comb

 Classic Religious Works
Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan
Paradise Lost by John Milton 
The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete by Dante Alighieri

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is an 1880 novel by American general Lew Wallace (1827-1905).
(1912) by Andrew Lang
Quo Vadis (novel), 1895 novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Story of the Other Wise Man" Henry-Van Dyke 1895
In His Steps Charles Monroe Sheldon (1896)
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)


 Classic Authors
G.K. Chesterton
O’Henry

 COMICS
Little Nemo and Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend Winsor McCay
The Kin-der-Kids The Comic Strip Art of by Lyonel Feininger

Classic Fantasy

 Rudyard Kipling
The Jungle Book (1894)
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Just So Stories for Little Children (1902)
Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)
Rewards and Fairies (1910)

Other Kipling Books
The Phantom 'Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales (1888)
This collection contained the short story The Man Who Would Be King
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (1888)
This collection contained the short story Baa Baa, Black SheepThe Light that Failed (1891)
Captains Courageous' (1896)
Kim (1901)

George MacDonald
Phantastes (1858)
Adela Cathcart  (1864)
The Portent (1864) Variant Title: Lady of the Mansion (1979)
At the Back of the North Wind (1870)
The Princess and the Goblin (1871)
Sir Gibbie (1879)
The Gifts of the Child Christ and Other Tales (1882)
The Princess and Curdie (1882)
The Flight of the Shadow (1891)
Lilith (1895)

The Complete Fairy Tales (1999)

 Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet 

 L. Frank Baum,

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1905, comic strip depicting 27 stories)
Ozma of Oz (1907)
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
The Road to Oz (1909)
The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)

Other Oz books in Public Domain

The Royal Book of Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson [but originally attributed to L. Frank Baum], 1921
Kabumpo in Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1922)

The Wishing Horse of Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1935)
Captain Salt in Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1936)
Handy Mandy in Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1937)
The Silver Princess in Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1938)
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (Ruth Plumly Thompson, 1939)

The Magical Mimics in Oz (Jack Snow, 1946)
The Shaggy Man of Oz (Jack Snow, 1949)


List of Oz books

Non-Oz works

Mother Goose in Prose (prose retellings of Mother Goose rhymes, (1897)
The Magical Monarch of Mo (Originally published in 1900 as A New  Wonderland) (fantasy, 1903)
Dot and Tot of Merryland (fantasy, 1901)
American Fairy Tales (fantasy, 1901)
The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale (fantasy, 1901)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
The Enchanted Island of Yew (fantasy, 1903)
Queen Zixi of Ix (fantasy, 1905)
John Dough and the Cherub (fantasy, 1906)
The Sea Fairies (fantasy, 1911)
Sky Island (fantasy, 1912)

 Lewis Carroll
Alice In Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass 
The Nursery "Alice" 

Other Carrol Tales

A Tangled Tale
Rhyme? And Reason? (also published as Phantasmagoria)
Pillow Problems
Sylvie and Bruno
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
The Hunting of the Snark

Edith Nesbit (SELECTED Bibliography)

Bastable Children
• 1 The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899)
• 2 The Wouldbegoods (1901)
• 3 New Treasure Seekers (1904)
• 4 Oswald Bastable and Others (1905) [C]
• 5 •1928 Complete History of Bastable Family

 Fabian Time Fantasies
• 1 The House of Arden (1908)
• 2 Harding's Luck (1909)

 • Five Children
• 1 Five Children and It (1902)
• 2 The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904)
• 3 The Story of the Amulet (1906)

Novels
The Enchanted Castle (1907)
The Magic City (1910
• Dormant (1911) Variant Title: Rose Royal (1912)
• The Wonderful Garden (1911)
Wet Magic (1913)

 Collections
Pussy and Doggy Tales 1885
The Rainbow and the Rose 1885
•Nine Unlikely Tales for Children (1901)
The Book Of Dragons (1901)
• Twenty Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare (1907) with William Shakespeare
The Magic World (1912)
• Fairy Stories (1977)
• Whereyouwantogoto and Other Unlikely Tales (1993)
• In the Dark (2000)
• These Little Ones (2006)
The Railway Children (1905)
•The Town in the Library (1988)

Kenneth Grahame
Pagan Papers (1893) (Not sure what this is)
The Golden Age (1895)
Dream Days (1898)  Including The Reluctant Dragon 
The Headswoman (1898) (Not sure what this is)
The Wind in the Willows (1908)

Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle 
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle 

A A Milne
Once on a Time (1917) 

Johnny Gruelle
The Magical Land of Noom
Friendly Fairies
Raggedy Andy/Ann 

James Matthew Barrie
The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (1902)
Peter Pan (1904)
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)
When Wendy Grew Up - An Afterthought (1908)
Peter and Wendy (novel) (1911)

 Margey Williams
The Velveteen Rabbit

 Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa
After 1922 but still want to read……….

 Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers And How They Grew 

Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories 

Richmal Crompton Lamburn
Just William
More William

 Charles Kingsley
The Water-Babies

Marigold Garden by Kate Greenway  
Peter in Blueberry Land by Elsa Beskow   
The Story of the Root Children by Sibylle Offers  
 The Children of the Forest by Elsa Beskow   


The magic pudding--Norman Lindsey  Project Gutenber
Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie--May Gibbs Still in Print
Ameliaranne and the green umbrella--Constance Heward Still in Print

The Rose and the ring====William Thackeray



Classic SCI-FI/Horrer
Gulliver's Travels -- by Jonathan Swift 
Frankenstein -- by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 
Dracula -- by Bram Stoker

A Christmas Carol1,The magic fishbone-- by Charles Dickens

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe -- by Edgar Allan Poe 

HG Wells
The Time Machine (1895)*
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896)*
The Invisible Man (1897)*
The War of the Worlds (1898)*
When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)*
The First Men in the Moon (1901)*
The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells (1966)

Jules Verne
Five Weeks in a Balloon 1863
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864)
From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870)
Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
In Search of the Castaways 1873
The Mysterious Island (1875).

Gaston Leroux
Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel   
The Mystery of the Yellow Room

Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan 
Mars Series- , ,

Rudolph Erich Raspe
The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen 

Saki

Adventure or Close to it anyway

The Adventures of Robin Hood (Puffin Classics) -- by Roger Lancelyn Green
Robinson Crusoe -- by Daniel Defoe CLIFF
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (66) CLIFF
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra CLIFF
The Swiss Family Robinson -- by Johann David Wyss
Toby Tyler or, Ten Weeks with a Circus  -- James Otis Kaler
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes

The Sea Hawk
The Coral Island====Robert Ballantyne
Seven Little Australians====Ethel Turner
Moonfleet=====J. Meade Falkner
Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar====Maruice Leblanc
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils----Selma Lagerlof


Mark Twain

Tom and Huck
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)
Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894)
Tom Sawyer, Detective (1896)

The Prince and the Pauper (1881)
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (1884)
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1886)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889)

 Robert Louis Stevenson

Adventures of David Balfour
1. Kidnapped (1886)
2. Catriona (1893)

Novels
Treasure Island (1883)
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

Alexandre Dumas

King's Musketeers
1. The Three Musketeers (1844)
2. Twenty Years After (1845)
3. Ten Years Later (1850)
     aka The Viscomte de Bragelonne
4. The Man in the Iron Mask (1910)

The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)

The Nutcracker (Histoire d'un casse-noisette, 1844): a revision of Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, later adapted by Tchaikovsky as a ballet  E.T.A. Hoffman

 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Lost World (1912)
• The Poison Belt (1913)

Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories 

 H. Rider Haggard
Tales of Allan Quatermain and Others
King Solomon's Mines

 Women
Frances Hodgson Burnett
(Little Lord Fauntelroy)-
The Secret Garden --
A Little Princess --
The Lost Prince

Johanna Spyri
Heidi 
Heidi Grows Up
Heidi's Children

Kate Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 

Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna 

Louisa May Alcott
Little Women

Lucy Maud Montgomery
Complete Anne of Green Gables 

Gene Stratton-Porter
Girl Of The Limberlost, A

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Katy Series

Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel
GIANT SCISSORS (published 1898) 

Anna Sewell
Black Beauty

 Series
Tom Swift Victor Appleton,
The Bobbsey Twins Laura Lee Hope
The Rover Boys Arthur M. Winfield
The Dutch Twins---Lucy Perkins

Other Classic Books and Authors
Moll Flanders -by Daniel Defoe
Rob Roy/ Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott It is on There
The Red Badge of Courage -- by Stephen Crane SPARK
Great Expectations, , Tale of 2 Cities, Oliver Twist -- by Charles Dickens; SPARK
Billy Budd Sailor and Other Stories , Moby Dick by Herman Melville SPARK
The Last of the Mohicans -- by James Fenimore Cooper SPARK
Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Hugo, Victor Hugo, SPARK
Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. The Brothers Karamazov, -Fyodor Dostoevsky SPARK
Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility,-Jane Austin SPARK
Wuthering Heights Brontë, Emily Jane Eyre Brontë, Charlotte SPARK
Heart of Darkness , Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad SPARK
The House of Seven Gables/ The Scarlett Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne SPARK
Tom Jones Henry Fielding SPARK
Uncle Tom's Cabin H. Beecher Stowe SPARK
War and Peace/Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy SPARK
The Jungle- Upton Sinclair - SPARK
Call of the Wild / White Fang / The Sea-Wolf / Klondike and Other Stories -- by Jack London CLIFF
The Turn of the Screw Henry James CLIFF
Ulysses James Joyce CLIFF
Vanity Fair William M. Thackeray CLIFF
Winesburg Ohio

 POETRY
Coleridge's Poetry Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dickinson's Poetry Emily Dickinson
Donne's Poetry John Donne
Eliot's Poetry T. S. Eliot
The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser
The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire
Frost's Early Poems Robert Frost
Hopkins's Poetry Gerard Manley Hopkins
Keats's Odes John Keats
"Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Rape of the Lock Alexander Pope
Robert Browning's Poetry Robert Browning
Shelley's Poetry Percy Bysshe Shelley
Songs of Innocence and Experience William Blake
Tennyson's Poetry Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whitman's Poetry Walt Whitman
Wordsworth's Poetry William Wordsworth
Yeats's Poetry William Butler Yeats
Edward Lear The Quangle Wangle's Hat, Book of Nonsense

 Sci Fi Authors
Hugo Greensback SCI FI HALL OF FAME
Aldous Huxley - (1894 - 1963) Brave New World
A Merritt (1884-1945) SCI FI HALL OF FAME
Lovecraft, H.P. (1890-1937) FAMOUS NAME
Murray Leinster (June 16, 1896 - June 8, 1975)
Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) FREE ONLINE
William Hope Hodgson-author of The Night Land The House on the Borderland",
H. Beam Piper-author of Little Buzzy

Lord Dunsany In the Land of Time, and Other Fantasy Tales
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of NewcastleThe Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World.
 Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Coming Race (original title), also reprinted as Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, 

Maurice Renard (28 February 1875 à Châlons-sur-Marne -18 November 1939) 
Luis P. Senarens (1865 Apr 24 - 1939) Frank Reade Stories
Garret P serviss (1851 - 1929) FREE ONLINE
M. P. shiel (1865-1947)
Karel Capek, (1890--1938) ONLINE BUT NOT IN ENGLISH
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin 2/ 1/ 1884 – 3/10/1937) Works on Line but not in English
Lord Lytton (1803 - 1873) Lots of Books Online
David H. Keller (1880 - 1966, United States) NOT ONLINE

Stories/Series To Check Out

Fu Manchu SAX ROHMER A master criminal,
Captain Blood RAFAEL SABATINI
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy,
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh by Russell Thorndike.
Thomas Carnacki   A fictional supernatural detective by William Hope Hodgson.

Children’s Series To Check Out

Laurence Housman
A Farm in Fairyland (1894),
The House of Joy (1895),
The Field of Clover (1898),
and The Blue Moon (1904).
Moonlight and Fairyland
The Werewolf
Little Plays of Saint Francis

Seven O'Clock Stories By Robert Gordon Anderson
Max and Moritz---Heinrich Busch
THE JACK HARKAWAY SERIES By BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG
Der Struwwelpeter====Heinrich Hoffman 
The Cuckoo Clock====Mrs. Molesworth
Nobody's boy====Hector Malot
Bevis====Richard Jefferies
The Young visiters===Daisy Ashford
The Children of the new forest====Frederick Marryat
Eric, or little by little====Frderic Farrar
Captain Fracasse====Theophile Gautier
The fifth form at St. Dominics===Talbot Reed
With Clive in India===George Henty
Heart===Edmondo Amicis
The Prisoner of Zenda====Anthony Hope
The Fortunes of Philippa====Angela Brazil
Jock of the Bushveld====Percy Fitzpatrick

Perkins, Frederick Orville

The Blue Bird for Children
The Wonderful Adventures of Tyltyl and Mytyl in Search of Happiness (English) (as Editor)
Farjeon, Eleanor, 1881-1965  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

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