Single Author Collections
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
In Christmas Eve At Swamp's End, Norman Duncan weaves a heartwarming narrative that captures the essence of the holiday spirit through the l…
Stories and Pictures
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
Tales of Wonder
Tales of Wonder invites listeners into the enchanting realms crafted by Lord Dunsany, a pioneer of modern fantasy. This collection showcases…
Plow Stories
This book tells of the important role of the plow, starting from its humble beginnings and how the plow has changed over time. This is achi…
The Triumph of the Egg
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous…
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
Kai Lung’s Golden Hours is a frame story or frame novel, that is, the narrative provides a frame for different stories. Think One Thousand A…
Gigolo
Gigolo is a collection of short stories by Edna Ferber, best known for her novels Show Boat and So Big (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize…
The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
If I May
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
Poems for my Children
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection o…
What Men Live By and Other Tales
This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By…
Barrack-Room Ballads
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…
Selected Poems
These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …
The Countess of Lowndes Square
A collection of fourteen short stories, grouped under the headings of "Blackmailing Stories", "Spook Stories", "Cat…
A Selection of Poems
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also wel…
Æsop in Rhyme
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …
Voices Of The Night
Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, pl…
Songs of Innocence and Experience
"Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "P…
The Human Boy
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
The Literary Sense
The Literary Sense is a captivating collection of short stories by E. Nesbit, a master storyteller known for her ability to weave adventure …