Books in The Perfect Library series

"Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold" from Charles Eastman. Native American physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer (1858-1939).

The Flying Dutchman, by Richard Wagner. Richard Wagner was german composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor (1813-1883).

"On the Track" from Henry Lawson. Australian writer and poet (1862-1922).

"Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia" from Seba Smith. American humorist and writer (1792-1868).

"Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road" from Katherine Lee Bates. American songwriter (1859-1929).

"Experiments with Alternate Currents of High Potential and High Frequency" from Nikola Tesla. Inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer who is recognized as among the most accomplished scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1856-1943).

"Wilfrid Cumbermede" from George MacDonald. Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister (1824-1905).

"The Two Admirals" from James Fenimore Cooper. Prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century (1789-1851).

"The Tangled Threads" from Eleanor Hodgman Porter. American novelist (1860-1928).

"Watched by Wild Animals" from Enos Mills. American naturalist and homesteader (1870-1922).

"Dandy Dick" from Arthur Wing Pinero. English actor and later an important dramatist and stage director (1855-1934).

"The Wreck of the Titan" from Morgan Robertson. American author of short stories and novels (1861-1915).