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Mary De Morgan began by telling stories to the children of friends and ended up publishing three collections of fairy tales: On a Pincushion and Other Tales (1877), The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde (1880), and The Windfairies (1900). All of these are available for the Kindle. This is the first of her collections and starts with 3 stories that are told by, a pebble brooch, a jet shawl-pin, and a common pin. One of the most famous and well known fairy tales is, 'The Toy Princess'. Instead of having a Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty marry the prince as the formula for a happy ending, De Morgan turns the miserable princess into a happy peasant. This is a cheery tale in its style, and has entertainment value for children. Its message contrasts with the usual elements for indoctrinating images of female goodness in little girls. Act up! Run and Play! Have Fun! Express your feelings, positive and negative. Live life to the fullest. This is a beautifully written tale,enjoyable from beginning to end.(from a review by Fay Sheco)Contents:The Story of Vain Lamorna -- The Seeds of Love -- The Story of the Opal -- Seigfrid and Handa -- The Hair Tree -- A Toy Princess -- Through the Fire.This book for the Kindle also contains 12 pages with illustrations and are available for viewing at www.digitaltextpublishing.com

Shortlisted, Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2019 Commended, Children's Book Council of Australia, 2019 Longlisted, Gold Inky Award, 2019 Lottie, the daughter of German migrants, develops a fascination for death after losing her mother at a young age. When Lottie begins collecting dead animals, her aunt tries to redirect her energies into more 'feminine' activities. But her father encourages her interest, recognizing a scientist's curiosity. A heartbreaking verse novel about love and death, grief and beauty, and the very individual ways we make sense of it all.

Story of the Morning Star, The Children's Missionary Vessel. By Rev. Hiram Bingham Jr., Missionary to Micronesia. Published in Boston in 1866 with Illustrations. (84 pages)The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.To Those Who Built the First Morning Star, and to Those Who Wish to Build Another. ..."My dear young Friends, — You have all heard of the missionary vessel that was sent to the Pacific Ocean in 1856; not a few of you took stock in her. Perhaps you have read about her in the "Missionary Herald," the "Journal of Missions," the "Youth's Day-spring," the "Friend," or in a book written by Mrs. Warren. Well, the little craft has been sold. She was almost worn out; and it was thought better to build a new vessel than to repair the old one....As I was the first missionary that went to sea in her, and have known her ever since, the Secretaries of the American Board a few weeks ago requested me to write a short story about her, in order that you may see how much good she has done, and so be all the more glad to aid in building another Morning Star to take her place. From the shortness of the time allowed me, to say nothing of my imperfect health, I should have been unequal to the task, had I not received much assistance from others. A great deal of this I have had from one who has known the Morning Star as long as I have, and has been my companion in nearly all my voyagings in her; and I take pleasure also in saying that kind friends at the Missionary House have, by their valued suggestions and criticisms, and in other ways, added not a little to the interest which this "Story of the Morning Star" may be thought to possess. Such as it is I offer it to you. And my prayer is that it may lead you to pity the heathen more deeply than ever. May I not hope that you will think more of that love, so great, so fr«e, which has made it possible for them, as well as for you and me, to see the Lord Jesus in his Heavenly kingdom!H. B., Jr.Missionary House, May 19th, 1866.Contents. Chapter I. The Lands the Morning Star was to Visit — Chapter II. The People She was to Visit — Chapter III. What had been Done Before Her Visit — Chapter IV. Why She Was Needed — Chapter V. Her Voyage Around Cape Horn — Chapter VI. She Visits the Marquesas Islands — Chapter VII. She Sets Out for Micronesia — Chapter VIII. Her Visit to Kusaie — Chapter IX. Her Visit to Ponape — Chapter X. Her Visit to Apaiang — Chapter XI. Her Visit to Ebon — Chapter XII. Waiting for the Morning Star — Chapter XIII. Her Yearly Visits — Chapter XIV. Some Things She Brought, And How We Used Them — Chapter XV. Micronesians Who Sailed in Her — Chapter XVI. Her Last Visit to the Marquesas Islands — Chapter XVII. Her Last Visit To Micronesia — Chapter XVIII. ConclusionIllustrations. The Morning StarThe Evening StarThe Morning Star off EbonMap Of Eastern MicronesiaGilbert Island ManeabaWelcome Of The Morning StarA Marshall IslanderMission Station At ApaiangGilbert Island WarriorsSunday Morning On ApaiangMr. Snow's Departure From Kusaie

The Buccaneers and their Reign of Terror is exactly what the sub-title states: "An Authentic History." This book, published in 1899 by Charles McClellan Stevens is one of the best written factual accounts of Buccaneers and Pirates between 1572 and 1828. The author does a remarkable job of making it easy to read and at times "fact" seems like "fiction".Contents:Chapter I. Wild Hunters of Hispaniola ---- Chapter II. Singeing the Spaniards Beard ---- Chapter III. Honor among Pirates ---- Chapter IV. Strategy, Comedy, and Tragedy ---- Chapter V. Humor, Love and Generosity ---- Chapter VI. Phantoms of the Sea ---- Chapter VII. Women Pirates ---- Chapter VIII. Famous Characters of the Sea ---- Chapter IX. King of the Buccaneers ---- Chapter X. Last of the Sea Monsters.This book for the Kindle also includes 29 pages of illustrations, which are available for viewing at www.digitaltextpublishing.comExcerpts:.....From Sir Francis Drake, in 1572, to Jean Lafitte, in 1821, and Benito De Soto in 1828, is a long descent in history, but between them, in the same field of events, are many remarkable men, not so greatly differing from them in character and purpose. They range all the way in power from Pierre Le Grand, the first of the Buccaneers, with his canoe manned by twenty-six Hispaniola hunters, to Sir Henry Morgan, the king of Buccaneers, with thirty-seven ships and two thousand fighting men. But far more interesting than these are, L'Olonnois the Cruel, Montbar the Exterminator, Blackbeard the dime-novel hero, Roberts the Spectacular, Davis the Strategist, Avery and Kidd the overestimated, Mary Reed and Annie Bonney, the female Buccaneers, Misson the knight errant, Caraccioli the Don Quixote of the seas, Bras de Fer the Gentleman, Portugues, who could not be hanged, and De Soto, last of the sea-monsters. A host of lesser lights make the scene of their achievements glitter with startling stories exemplifying the reign of terror that prevailed upon the seas and along the Spanish Main........Treasures were always buried by the Buccaneers with special incantations and invocations to Satan. Blackbeard said he could tell no one where his gold was buried, as he had left it in the care of the devil, with the promise that the one who lived longest should keep it. Captain Kidd very ceremoniously buried his Bible before giving himself completely over to piracy.......Blackbeard endeavored to inspire terror and horror. He was gratified to be thought an incarnate fiend, Charles Johnson says that, "he was more terrible to America than a comet." his beard grew to an extravagant length, and he twisted it into small tails with bright ribbons and strung them over his ears. He was always inventing some new way to appear satanic. A favorite device was to wear a light under the rim of his hat, making him present such a figure that, as his historian says. "the imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful."

Published in London in 1865. Contains detailed stories of Robin and his adventures in 30 Chapters. (508 pages).This book for the Kindle includes 7 pages of illustrations, which are available for viewing at www.digitaltextpublishing.comPreface:This story is designed for the amusement of young persons. The incidents are drawn chiefly from the Robin Hood ballads; but many of the writer's own invention have been introduced. When the book was undertaken, the author was aware that no story of the life of the rover of Sherwood had been written especially for the class of readers alluded to, and he hopes that he may not have altogether failed in supplying satisfactorily the want which he supposed to exist. In the ballads, Robin Hood is represented as brave, courteous, generous, and religious; withal he was a robber. It was, however, the age that made the man. Kings and prelates in those days filled their coffers by acts as grossly wrong as those by which Robin replenished the stores of himself and band. Robin was in all likelihood driven to the course of life he adopted, more by the tyranny and wrong-doing of those in authority, than by a natural love of the life which he led. He strove against the oppression from which he and others suffered, and, in doing so, was forced to a certain extent to use oppression; but it was those only who were guilty of the oppression whom he punished.The incidents have been threaded together by a slender plot; and no attempt has been made to develop the characters of the principal actors.

Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "Spring of '50." by Theodore Augustus Barry (1825-1881) and Benjamin Adam Patten (1825-1877). Published in San Francisco in 1873. (296 pages) The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.Preface...Years ago it was no unfrequent thing for old residents, who, in the course of conversation, had arrived at a point of doubt or difference upon the location of some building, or the names of its occupants, their personal appearance, profession, or peculiarities in the "Spring of '50," to come to us for information on the mooted point, believing that our long continued residence and peculiar opportunities for observation, together with unusually good memories, rendered our decisions worthy of consideration. As Time's incessant revolution whirls us on and on, still farther from those days, and looking back upon the long vista of years, the once familiar spots and well-known forms and faces fade in the distance. These inquiries increase day by day, and so often have we been correct, that many of our friends have said: ''Write some of the reminiscences of those old times, and we will read them." Disclaiming all merit in these pages, save their mnemonic faithfulness, we offer them to the kind consideration of our friends and the public.B. & P.San Francisco, May, 1873Excerpts:...There is a romance attached to the early days of San Francisco's history, a real interest clinging to the men who lived here, and to the incidents of their lives during those strange, eventful days — something not so easily explained to those who were not here — a kind of freemasonry, binding fraternally all those who lived here in a time when the very sense of remoteness and isolation from all the rest of the world brought men closer together; made men who knew each other merely by name, and who had never spoken together, grasp each other's hands and form life-long friendships, born of a sympathy in men so similarly circumstanced, drawn to one field by eager, adventurous enterprise, such a long, weary way from home and loved ones, having something in common, so different from any previous experience known or read of by men....The two-story wooden house on California street, north side, corner of the alley just above Kearny street, was built in 1849 by Dr. Jones, who may be remembered by the old residents. The doctor was an eccentric individual. He wore a long, velvet-lined voluminous cloak, with the air of a Spanish Grandee. It was said in those days, that the doctor had more gold-dust than any man in California. Those who knew him most intimately, used to tell a story of his spreading sheets over the floor of his sleeping apartment, pouring his gold-dust upon them, and walking upon it, pushing his feet through it, taking it up in his hands, and pouring it upon his head and shoulders, and rolling in it — performing Jupiter and Danse, with Dr. Jones in both characters. During his sprees, and the doctor was often under the influence, he was fond of indulging in great absurdities. The doctor sold at one sale seventy-one lots, and liberally treated his friends at " Our House,'' on "Washington street, just above Dunbar's Alley. Dr. Wallace purchased and occupied for many years the Dr. Jones house.

Drops of Spray From Southern Seas Written by Lucy Brown ReynoldsPublished in Waterville, Maine in the year 1896Dedication:In Memory of My Mother, Who Died at Sea, After a Long and Painful Illness, I Dedicate This Book. Contents:Chapter I. Memories of Home — Chapter II. Yellow Jack — Chapter III. Through Storm And Darkness — Chapter IV. The Brig Cadet — Chapter V. Our Arrival In Port Chalmers — Chapter VI. Newcastle: Hotel Cuterion — Chapter VII. Fired On By A Chilean Man-Of-War — Chapter VII. A Happy Day — Chapter VIII. The Death Of Our Mother — Chapter IX. Our Arrival In San Francisco — Chapter X. Eight Days In A Sleeping Car — Chapter XI. Joyful News — Chapter XII. Our Stepmother — Chapter XIII. A Little Stranger — Chapter XIV. Two Weeks In Bass Straits — Chapter XV. Through Torres Straits — Chapter XVI. Surabaya: The Burning Ship — Chapter XVII. Tagal: Loading Sugar — Chapter XVIII. The Dreaded Cholera — Chapter XIX. A Cyclone: Carlo Runs Mad — Chapter XX. Our Arrival In Newcastle — Chapter XXI. Loading Coal: Shipwrecked — Chapter XXII. In An Open Boat — Chapter XXIII. Suffering With Thirst — Chapter XXIV. Picked Up By The Lotus — Chapter XXV. Ugi — Chapter XXVI. An Earthquake: Incidents Of Savage Life — Chapter XXVII. Life At Ugi — Chapter XXVIII. H. M. S. Lark: Our Rescue — Chapter XXIX. Our Life In Sydney — Chapter XXX. The Queen's Birthday — Chapter XXXI. A Floating Palace — Chapter XXXII. A Visit From Neptune: Honolulu — Chapter XXXIII. The Grand Concert: San Francisco — Chapter XXXIV. Home Once More — Chapter XXXV. A Moment Of Peril — Chapter XXXVI. Out From The Old Life Into The New — Chapter XXXVII. How Brown Bess Ate The Pudding — Chapter XXXVIII. A Winter In A Log Camp: Back To Maine.Excerpts:...I was born in the prosperous town of Milbridge, Maine, five miles from the open sea, and to me the dearest place on earth. My father was a sea captain, James Brown by name, who always went on deep sea voyages and who, unlike the majority of captains, was glad to have his family accompany him. I went to sea from earliest infancy, and always enjoyed it. Mother used to say I was more at home on the water than I was on the land....The next morning, upon opening my eyes after a brief sleep, I glanced towards mother's bed. For the first time in ten happy years no answering glance from loving eyes met mine, no gentle voice bade me a cheery good morning. Instead, my eyes fell on that rigid form outlined under the white sheet. Annie was asleep and there was no one in the room. I sprang up, and running across the cabin, threw back the sheet and kissed her pale lips again and again. "Oh! mother, mother darling," I moaned, "come back or take me with you," while burning tears fell on that calm, smiling face. Father heard me and, coming down, took me tenderly in his arms and told me if I would live as mother had taught us, that when we, too, were called, we would meet her in the bright land whither she had gone, where all was peace and rest. No more parting, no more tears, but a glorious reunion. Mother had suffered cruelly, she was now at rest, and Jesus had bade us to "Mourn not for the dead but for the living."...No boat could live an instant in that swirl of angry waters. Our only hope lay in setting every stitch of canvas and driving the vessel off the reef. If this failed we were lost, and we were only five miles from a land peopled with savages far more cruel than the hungry waves.The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past. Making this copy very readable.

Published in New York in 1852. 442 pagesCONTENTSLEGENDS OF THE NORMAN CONQUERORS The Saxon's Oath ----- The Norman's Vengeance ----- The Faith of Woman ----- The Erring Arrow ----- The Saxon Prelate's Doom ----- The Fate of the Blanche Navire ----- The Saxon's BridalLEGENDS OF THE CRUSADERSThe Syrian Lady ----- The Templar's Trials ----- The RenegadoLEGENDS OF FEUDAL DAYSThe False Ladye ----- The Vassal's Wife ----- True Love's DevotionLEGENDS OF SCOTLANDPassages in the Life of Mary StuartChastelar ----- Rizzio ----- The Kirk of Field ----- Bothwell ----- The Captivity ----- The Closing SceneElizabeth's Remorse ----- The Moorish Father

California: A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate (April, May, June, 1877) By Mrs. Frank Leslie. Illustrated. Written in 1877 and published in New York. (354 pages) The illustrations from this book are available for viewing and download at www.digitaltextpublishing.com Prefatory, to the Reader.…Dear five hundred friends already mine, and five hundred more, who will, as I fondly dream, become mine through these pages, let me disarm criticism beforehand by assuring you that nobody could point out a fault or a shortcoming in this little book, which I do not know all about and deplore most modestly beforehand. In fact I have my doubts as to calling it a book at all, that title implying a purpose, and deliberateness, and method, which are not of my circle, although regarded by me with respectful admiration. No, let us rather say, that this work of mine is a vehicle, through which, with feminine longing for sympathy, I convey to you my pleasures, annoyances, and experiences in the journey it narrates; or, if you like better, it is a casket, enshrining the memory of many a pleasant hour made bright and indelible by your companionship, your kindness, your attention and hospitality.…The world is so exigent, and Time the Effacer is so ruthless, that one loves sometimes to "materialize" those pleasant, or more than pleasant recollections, and so put them not only beyond the risk of loss from one's own memory, but in such form that they can be communicated anew to those who originally shared them.M. FLORENCE LESLIE. ContentsChapter I. THE BEGINNING. — Chapter II. THE TAGUS AND LAKE ERIE. — Chapter III. HOTEL CARS Versus EMIGRANT TRAINS. — Chapter IV. THE UNMENTIONABLE PLACE. — Chapter V. THE GARDEN OF THE GODS. — Chapter VI. CATHEDRALS, CASTLES, CITIES NOT BUILT BY HANDS. — Chapter VII. SALT LAKE CITY. MRS. AMELIA'S PICTURES. MISS SNOW. — Chapter VIII. A FIRST-CLASS MORMON INTERIOR. — Chapter IX. A LION THAT WE SAW AND A LION THAT WE HEARD. — Chapter X. PHILOSOPHY, SHOSHONES, AND PIUTES — Chapter XI. THE PALACE HOTEL, PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE STREETS. — Chapter XII. A PRINCE AND A PALACE. — Chapter XIII. A MEMORABLE VISIT. — Chapter XIV. THE BROKER'S BOARD AND THE CITY PRISON. — Chapter XV. THE WAYS THAT ARE DARK. — Chapter XVI. ACT LIII. — SCENE 102. — AN OPIUM DEN. — Chapter XVII. WORSE THAN DEATH. — Chapter XVIII. SUPPER AT A CELESTIAL RESTAURANT. — Chapter XIX. WOODWARD'S GARDEN AND SEAL ROCKS. — Chapter XX. THE TIES OF CALIFORNIA BUSINESS PARTNERSHIPS. — Chapter XXI. SAN RAFAEL AND MR. COLEMAN'S GROUNDS. — Chapter XXII. THE ROSES OF SANTA ROSA. — Chapter XXIII. THE GEYSERS AND FOSSE OF FOSSEVILLE. — Chapter XXIV. LAST DAYS IN SAN FRANCISCO. — Chapter XXV. A LODGE IN A VAST WILDERNESS. — Chapter XXVI. THE YOSEMITE VALLEY. — Chapter XXVII. THE MARIPOSA BIG TREES. — Chapter XXVIII. THE QUEEN OF THE ANGELS. — Chapter XXIX. BALDWIN'S RANCHE OF SANTA ANITA. — Chapter XXX. A VERY OLD WOMAN AND A VERY OLD CHURCH. — Chapter XXXI. SANTA MONICA. — Chapter XXXII. VIRGINIA CITY AND THE BIG BONANZA. — Chapter XXXIII. HOMEWARD BOUND.The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past. Making this copy very readable.

Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a risk-taker who’s not afraid of anything―except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can't explain. The funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by voices and visions. As she’s drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She can no longer tell what's real or imagined. All she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. Everything about her is changing―her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don’t understand. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness?