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The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. …

The Light Princess is a Scottish fairy tale by George Mac Donald. It was published in 1864. Drawing on inspiration from Sleeping Beauty, it tells the story of a princess afflicted by a constant wei …

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish writer and anthropologist. Lang is best known for writing fairy books and The Arabian Nights Entertainments. This version of Langs The Blue Fairy Book includes …

Isabel Kenton is left to run the family business when her father dies on the eve of the Great War and her twin brother enlists in the Flying Corps. A clairvoyant tells Isabel that ‘yours will be a …

Lizzie Burton is an orphan of mysterious origins. She has been a housemaid at Portland House for as long as she can remember. Deborah Hammond is also an orphan from the workhouse and, like Lizzie, …

The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford’s father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling …

John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wealthy and well established family. His schooling was at Harrow and New College, Oxford before training …

Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk on 31st March 1844. He was the eldest of eight children.Lang was educated at Selkirk Grammar School, Loretto, and at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and …

The Greek god Hermes narrates this extraordinary novel of contemporary romance by award-winning author Kate Thompson ‘;I have a story for you . . . It is a tale of immortals, acted by mortals.’So …

The Laughing Prince; A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly …