50 Classic Children's Books

by Robert Louis Stevenson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum

Overview

50 Classic Children's Books

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. Andersen
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum
Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
Adam Bede by George Eliot
The Book of Dragons by E. Nesbit
The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Adventures of Buster Bear by Thornton W. Burgess
A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Favorite Fairy Tales by Logan Marshall
The Magic Fishbone by Charles Dickens
Uncle Wiggily's Adventures by Howard Roger Garis
The Oriental Story Book by Wilhelm Hauff
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess
The Bobbsey Twins at Home by Laura Lee Hope
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge
Parkhurst Boys by Talbot Baines Reed
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Gold Bat by P. G. Wodehouse
A Prefect's Uncle by P. G. Wodehouse
A Modern Cinderella by Louisa May Alcott
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog by Thornton W. Burgess
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse by Thornton W. Burgess
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by J. H. G. Ewing
Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit by Joel Chandler Harris
The Vision of the Fountain by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016769714
Publisher:	Unforgotten Classics
Publication date:	06/19/2015
Series:	Unforgotten Classics , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850 in Edinburgh. His father was an engineer, the head of a family firm that had constructed most of Scotland's lighthouses, and the family had a comfortable income. Stevenson was an only child and was often ill; as a result, he was much coddled by both his parents and his long-time nurse. The family took frequent trips to southern Europe to escape the cruel Edinburgh winters, trips that, along with his many illnesses, caused Stevenson to miss much of his formal schooling. He entered Edinburgh University in 1867, intending to become an engineer and enter the family business, but he was a desultory, disengaged student and never took a degree. In 1871, Stevenson switched his study to law, a profession which would leave time for his already-budding literary ambitions, and he managed to pass the bar in 1875.

Illness put an end to his legal career before it had even started, and Stevenson spent the next few years traveling in Europe and writing travel essays and literary criticism. In 1876, Stevenson fell in love with Fanny Vandergrift Osbourne, a married American woman more than ten years his senior, and returned with her to London, where he published his first fiction, "The Suicide Club." In 1879, Stevenson set sail for America, apparently in response to a telegram from Fanny, who had returned to California in an attempt to reconcile with her husband. Fanny obtained a divorce and the couple married in 1880, eventually returning to Europe, where they lived for the next several years. Stevenson was by this time beset by terrifying lung hemorrhages that would appear without warning and required months of convalescence in a healthy climate. Despite his periodic illnesses and his peripatetic life, Stevenson completed some of his most enduring works during this period: Treasure Island (1883), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Kidnapped (1886), and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886).

After his father's death and a trip to Edinburgh which he knew would be his last, Stevenson set sail once more for America in 1887 with his wife, mother, and stepson. In 1888, after spending a frigid winter in the Adirondack Mountains, Stevenson chartered a yacht and set sail from California bound for the South Pacific. The Stevensons spent time in Tahiti, Hawaii, Micronesia, and Australia, before settling in Samoa, where Stevenson bought a plantation called Vailima. Though he kept up a vigorous publishing schedule, Stevenson never returned to Europe. He died of a sudden brain hemorrhage on December 3, 1894.

Author biography from the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Date of Birth:

November 13, 1850

Date of Death:

December 3, 1894

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Vailima, Samoa

Education:

Edinburgh University, 1875