Books published by publisher Fredonia Books (NL)

CONTENTS La Morte Amoreuse, by Theophile Gautier The Red Room, by H. G. Wells The Phantom 'Rickshaw, by Rudyard Kipling The Roll-Call of the Reef, by A. T. Quiller-Couch The House and The Brain, by Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Dream-Woman, by Wilkie Collins Green Branches, by Fiona Macleod A Bewitched Ship, by W. Clark Russell The Signal-Man and A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens The Four-Fifteen Express, by Amelia B. Edwards Our Last Walk, by Hugh Conway Thrawn Janet, by Robert Louis Stevenson The Spectre Bridegroom, by Washington Irving The Mysterious Sketch, by Erckmann-Chatrian Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe and The White Old Maid, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Wandering Willie's Tale, by Sir Walter Scott

One of Twain's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult who can read or listen. Left out of "A Tramp Abroad", because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated or not true - the suspicions eventually proved groundless. Written in a manner only the author has ever been able to do, it is at once both entertaining and a valuable slice of American literature. The elephant was stolen in Jersey City, making it probably the only Twain story situated in the metropolitan New York area.

"Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children," by Mabel Powers (Yeh Sen Noh Wehs) was originally published in 1917. "To all the children who ask how and why, especially those red children who see with wonder eyes, and those paleface children who yet believe in fairies, these stories are lovingly dedicated." Includes a joint foreword by the Chiefs of the Seneca Nation (Edward Cornplanter), the Onondagas (Frank Logan), Tuscaroras (Grant Mt. Pleasant), the Oneidas (William Thomas), the Cayugas (David Warrior), the Mohawks (James W. Hill), with their native names and signatures.

Charles Lever's vivid and rollicking pictures of military and hunting life were quite popular in his day, and remain a delight to read. The author is the 19th century Anglo-Irish novelist Charles Lever. Once compared favorably to Dickens and extremely popular in the 1840's and 1850's, Lever's reputation suffered increasing criticism in the late 19th century and he is not well known today, and is sometimes in fact referred to as "The Lost Victorian". A unique view of the Victorian age from the Anglo-Irish point of view. Lever was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and contributed much of his early work to the "Dublin University Magazine," where Jack Hinton first appeared in 1843.

A historical romance, set in France at the time of the revolution, in which the romance vanished beneath the historical narrative. Dumas first researched and imagined this work in the 1850's, but may not have actually begun writing it until 1862. The last third of the book is a narrative of the history of the revolution, encompassing the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, through to the death of Robespierre in 1793, concluding "France fell into the hands of Napoleon."

This is volume 5 of a five volume set. Sholokhov's book introduces the reader to a New World that is not merely the Don Region, but the world of the author's inimitably poetic prose; giving fifteen years of his life to the creation of And Quiet Flows the Don. He began the first book at the age of twenty, in 1926. The last was finished in 1940. While Leo Tolstoy’s novel War and Peace (1863-69) immortalized the Napoleonic campaigns to the eve of the Decembrist revolt, And Quiet Flows the Don showed the destruction of the Cossacks and the birth of a new society.

This book of letters was written by an American woman, a diplomat's wife, gifted concert singer, and international socialite, who spent several years in the court of the last Napoleon. Her letters give a vivid picture of the court of the Napoleon III, among other experiences recorded. Lillie de Hegermann-Lindencrone's letters form a fascinating glimpse at the high society, the men and women of greatest talent, power, wealth and influence of her day. There are politicians and statesmen, bankers, businessmen etc. but also all the most important figures in the world of music of the second half of the 19th century. This includes such great figures as Wagner, Liszt, Auber, Gounod, and Rossini. Many of her letters give us intimate glimpses into the lives of these people.

This is the first book length biography of Thoreau, written by one of his closest friends. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn graduated from Harvard in 1855 and settled in Concord as a schoolteacher, where his pupils included the children of Emerson, Hawthorne, and the elder Henry James. He was also a close friend of Thoreau and the Alcott family. Contents include: Childhood and Youth; Concord and Its Famous People; The Transcendental Period; Friends and Companions; The Walden Hermitage; Personal Traits and Social Life; Poet, Moralist, and Philosopher; and more. "Mr. Sanborn's book is thoroughly American and truly fascinating. Its literary skill is exceptionally good, and there is a racy flavor in its pages and an amount of exact knowledge of interesting people that one seldom meets with in current literature. Mr. Sanborn has done Thoreau's genius an imperishable service." -- American Church Review (New York) "Mr. Sanborn has written a careful book about a curious man, whom he has studied as impartially as possible; whom he admires warmly but with discretion; and the story of whose life he has told with commendable frankness and simplicity." -- New York Mail and Express "It is undoubtedly the best life of Thoreau extant." -- Christian Advocate (New York)

Originally published in 1905, some of the tales in this book were previously published in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, Sunset, Popular Educator, Children’s World, and Good Housekeeping. The stories carefully document their sources and authenticity, and cover material originating in northern Mexico through California and the Northwest.