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The Rover Boys, also known as The Rover Boys Series for readers of all ages, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. This …

The Rover Boys in Business, also countable in The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. …

Falling In With Fortune is a fictional novel written by Horatio Alger Jr. It is a complete story in itself, but it is the second of the two book volumes, the first is known as "Out For …

William Ralston Shedden Ralston’s translation of "Russian Fairy Tales" is a compelling collection of folktales. The beautiful world of Russian folklore is introduced to English-speaker’s …

"Whitefoot the Wood Mouse" is a delightful children’s book written by Thornton W. Burgess, an acclaimed author renowned for his stories featuring anthropomorphic animal characters. This …

Rafael Sabatini, an Italian-born British author, wrote the 1906 historical adventure book Bardelys the Magnificent. It is a wonderful story of romance and adventure set in early seventeenth-century …

The Illustrious Prince is an interesting and mysterious novel written by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The novel was written more than 30 years before Pearl Harbor and four years before World War I began. …

Rafael Sabatini penned the historical novel Bellarion the Fortunate. The story opens with Bellarion, a young man who was abandoned as a child and educated in an abbey, leaving with a letter of …

The Scarlet Pimpernel series by Baroness Orczy includes the novel The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel. The story begins in Paris in April 1794, when Theresia Cabarrus is betrothed to Citizen …

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a novella written by Charles Dickens. The Peerybingle family and their lovely home, where a joyful cricket dwells on the hearth, are the focus of this …