Books from 1st World Library - Literary Society

  • The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch
    The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch
    By Laura Lee Hope

    There, I think I have everything in that I'll need at Oak Farm.

  • Sleeping Fires
    Sleeping Fires
    By Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

    In this residence section the sidewalks were also wooden and uneven and the streets muddy in winter and dusty in summer, but the houses, some of which had "come round the Horn," were large, simple, and stately.

  • Auld Licht Idyls
    Auld Licht Idyls
    By James Matthew Barrie

    Early this morning I opened a window in my school-house in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted glass.

  • The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound
    The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound
    By Laura Lee Hope

    Also why should Sam's return to a primitive state have forced my ancestry up to the point of flowering on the surface? I do hope Sam will not have to suffer consequences, but I can't help it if he does. What's born in us is not our fault.

  • Captivity and Restoration
    Captivity and Restoration
    By Mary Rowlandson

    Mary Rowlandson, commended by her, to all that desires to know the Lord's doings to, and dealings with her. Especially to her dear children and relations. The second Addition [sic] Corrected and amended.

  • The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
    The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
    By Hugh Lofting

    ALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known him - indeed a great deal of it took...

  • The Great Stone Face
    The Great Stone Face
    By Nathaniel Hawthorne

    The caricatures in this timeless tale hold true to form more than 150 years after the initial publication. Hawthorne tells the story of Ernest, a modest, hardworking citizen living near the Great Stone Face.

  • They and I
    They and I
    By Jerome K. Jerome

    It is not a large house, I said.

  • Bride of Lammermoor
    Bride of Lammermoor
    By Walter Scott

    There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist; the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions of the State are more clearly drawn out in the Laws; as works of art, the Symposium ...

  • The Shades of the Wilderness
    The Shades of the Wilderness
    By Joseph A. Altsheler

    A train of wagons and men wound slowly over the hills in the darkness and rain toward the South.

  • The Elect Lady
    The Elect Lady
    By George MacDonald

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  • The Son of Monte-Cristo
    The Son of Monte-Cristo
    By Alexandre Dumas

    Spero, the son of Monte-Cristo, was peacefully sleeping in another room, while, gathered around the table in the dining-room of Fanfaro's house, were Monte-Cristo, Miss Clary, Madame Caraman, Coucou, and Albert de Morcerf, ready to listen ...

  • Les Miserables
    Les Miserables
    By Victor Hugo, 1st World Publishing, 1stworld Library

    In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D-since 1806.

  • To the Last Man
    To the Last Man
    By Zane Grey

    As the son of a cattle rancher during the Pleasant Valley War in nineteenth-century Arizona, Jean is determined to fight for his father's cause, but falls in love with the daughter of a sheepherder from the other side of the war.

  • Abbeychurch
    Abbeychurch
    By Charlotte M. Yonge

    One summer afternoon, Helen Woodbourne returned from her daily walk with her sisters, and immediately repaired to the school-room, in order to put the finishing touches to a drawing, with which she had been engaged during the greater part ...

  • Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays
    Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays
    By Annie Roe Carr

    Ta-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat!

  • The Road to Oz
    The Road to Oz
    By L. Frank Baum

    Dorothy and her friends follow the enchanted road to Oz and arrive in time for Ozme's birthday party.

  • Roughing It
    Roughing It
    By Mark Twain

    Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation.

  • For Love of Country
    For Love of Country
    By Cyrus Townsend Brady

    If Seymour could have voiced his thought, he would have said that the earth itself did not afford a fairer picture than that which lay within the level radius of his vision, and which had imprinted itself so powerfully upon his ...

  • Two Years in the Forbidden City
    Two Years in the Forbidden City
    By Princess Der Ling

    MY father and mother, Lord and Lady Yu Keng, and family, together with our suite consisting of the First Secretary, Second Secretary, Naval and Military Attaches, Chancellors, their families, servants, etc., - altogether fifty-five people, ...