Books in The Perfect Library series

"The Sabbath in Puritan New England" from Alice Morse Earle. American historian and author (1851-1911).

"Wild Beasts and their Ways" from Samuel Baker. British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist (1821-1893).

"The Breadwinners" from John Hay. American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist (1838-1905).

"The Theory of Moral Sentiments" from Adam Smith. Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy (1723-1790).

"The Young Surveyor" from John Townsend Trowbridge. American author born in Ogden, New York, USA (1827-1916).

"Jonas on a Farm in Winter" from Jacob Abbott. American writer of children's books (1803-1879).

"Memories and Portraits" from Robert Louis Stevenson. Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer (1850-1894).

"Domestic Manners of the Americans" from Frances Eleanor Trollope. English novelist and writer (1779-1863).

"Old Creole Days" from George Washington Cable. American novelist notable for the realism of his portrayals of Creole life in his native New Orleans, Louisiana (1844-1925).

"Queen Zixi of Ix" from L. Frank Baum. American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1856-1919).

"Among My Books First Series" from James Russell Lowell. American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891).

"The Mason-Bees" from Jean-Henri Fabre. French entomologist and author (1823-1915).