Product Description: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her...read more

Product Description: All round the year the changing suns and rains Beat on men’s work—to wreck and to decay— But nature builds more perfectly than they, Her changing unchanged sea resists, remains. All round the year new flowers spring up to shew How gloriously life is more strong than death; And in our hearts are seeds of love and faith, Ah, sun and showers, be kind, and let them grow...read more

Product Description: The story concerns the adventures of three children who are forced to move away from London to a house in the country near a railway when their father is imprisoned after being falsely accused to spying. They befriend an Old Gentleman who travels daily on the train who is eventually able to prove their father's innocence...read more

Product Description: "This book is a joy and would make a lovely gift for young readers." — Januarygray.netReaders of all ages will find fresh enchantment in familiar fables with this charming storybook. Famed children's writer E. Nesbit, author of Five Children and It and Shakespeare's Stories for Young Readers, offers captivating retellings of nine famous fairy tales...read more

Product Description: TO understand this story you will have to believe in the Greater Gods—Love and Youth, for example, and Adventure and Coincidence; also in the trusting heart of woman and the deceitful spirit of man. You will have to reconcile yourself to the fact that though daily you go to London by the nine-seven, returning by the five-fifteen, and have your accustomed meals at eight, one, and half-past six, there are those who take neither trains nor meals regularly...read more

Product Description: What dreams the flower cups enfold Within their fragrant leaves, Of meadow-ways grown fair with spring, Soft mists that April weaves; And cottage gardens where the scent Of flowers is with the wood-smoke blent...read more

Product Description: He got a board out of the box-room next door, and rested one end in the chink between the fireplace and the mantelpiece, and laid the other end on the back of a chair, then we stuffed the rest of the chink with our nightgowns, and laid a towel along the plank, and behold, a noble stream poured over the end of the board right into the bath we put there ready...read more

Product Description: Edith Nesbit (1958 - 1924) was an English poet and author known for her children's books. She is credited with writing over 60 books for children. Nesbit was co-founder of the Fabian Society, which later became the Labour Party...read more

Product Description: The classic tale of star crossed lovers presented in a volume including tales by Shakespeare, Nesbit & Brooke. From the well known play to its inspiration to a loving simple presentation of the tale by a renowned turn of the 20th century author, this volume will reintroduce you to the classic characters...read more

Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The charming Bastable children careen through more comic adventure as H.O. gets lost in a trunk, suspected of being a time bomb, and an escaped lunatic rents a room