First in a series of novels for adolescent girls written by Edith Van Dyne, a penname of L. Frank Baum, following the exploits of the three teenaged nieces of Jane Merrick, a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who calls them to visit her, so s...
Major Gregory Doyle paced nervously up and down the floor of the cosy sitting room. "Something's surely happened to our Patsy " he exclaimed. A little man with a calm face and a bald head, who was seated near the fire, continued to read his newspaper...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - How did I happen to own a farm? asked Uncle John, interrupting his soup long enough to...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The gentleman at whom this assertion was flung in a rather angry tone did not answer h...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Mr. Judkins, the station agent at Chazy Junction, came out of his little house at dayb...
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "This is getting to be an amazing old world," said a young girl, still in her "teens,"...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
"It's positively cruel pouted Jennie Allen, one of a group of girls occupying a garden bench in the ample grounds of Miss Stearne's School for Girls, at Beverly. ""It's worse than that; it's insulting,"" declared Mable Westervelt, her big dark eyes ...
Emma (Keats) Speed Sampson (1868-1947) was an American author. She wrote several series of children's books including the Carter Girls, the Tucker Twins and Miss Minerva. After her sister Nell Speed's death, she used her name to complete the Molly Br...
Edith Van Dyne was one of the pseudonyms of Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American ...
Edith Van Dyne was one of the pseudonyms of Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919), an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books ever written in American ...
It was Sunday afternoon in Miss Patricia Doyle's pretty flat at 3708 Willing Square. In the small drawing room Patricia-or Patsy, as she preferred to be called-was seated at the piano softly playing the one "piece" the music teacher had succeeded in ...
"What's the news, Uncle?" asked Miss Patricia Doyle, as she entered the cosy breakfast room of a suite of apartments in Willing Square. Even as she spoke she pecked a little kiss on the forehead of the chubby man addressed as "Uncle"-none other, if y...
Orissa Kane, self-reliant and full of sparkling good nature, under-study for her brother, prospective inventor and aviator. Orissa and her friend Sybil fly off in a new aeroplane for adventures which test these two clever girls to the limit. Original...
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....