Exploring Top Books of Shelfari

The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel “has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the... (more)

The Land of the Blue Flower

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Land of the Blue Flower is the tale of Amor, a young king orphaned as an infant and left in the care of a wise elder. His caretaker, known as the Ancient One, spirits the infant away to a castle, far from the gloomy city where Amor was born. In the lands surrounding the castle, the Ancient One teaches Amor to respect and learn from the beauty and mysteries of nature. When Amor ascends to his throne as a... (more)

North and South

by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mary Gaskell's North and South examines the nature of social authority and obedience and provides an insightful description of the role of middle class women in nineteenth century society. Through the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner who moves to the northern industrial town of Milton, Gaskell skillfully explores issues of class and gender, as Margaret's sympathy for the town mill workers conflicts with her... (more)

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There

by Lewis Carroll

The 1872 sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland finds Carroll’s inquisitive heroine in a fantastic land where everything is reversed. Alice encounters talking flowers, madcap kings and queens, and strange mythological characters when she becomes a pawn in a bizarre chess game involving Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and other amusing nursery-rhyme characters. One of juvenile literature’s great... (more)

O Pioneers!

by Willa Cather

"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." . . . "The land belongs to the future . . . that's the way it seems to me. . . . I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it -- for a little while." -- Willa Cather, O Pioneers! Willa Cather... (more)

The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

From the esteemed author of The Age of Innocence--a black comedy about vast wealth and a woman who can define herself only through the perceptions of others. Lily Bart's quest to find a husband who can satisfy her cravings for endless admiration and all the trappings of the rich comes to a scandalous end when she is accused of being a wealthy man's mistress. (Literature/Classics)

The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition

The Racketty-Packetty House: 100th Anniversary Edition

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Acclaimed illustrator Wendy Anderson Halperin celebrates Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic, a tale of two dollhouses, just in time for its 100th anniversary. When Tidy Castle arrives, brand-new and grand in every way, the Racketty-Packetty House has never looked shabbier, and it is shoved in the corner of Cynthia's nursery. But the Racketty family still dances, sings, and laughs louder than all the fancy dolls... (more)

The Great God Pan

by Arthur Machen

A terrifying tale about the god of wild places. Newly designed and typeset in a modern 5.5-by-8.5-inch format by Waking Lion Press.

The Adventures of Sally

by P. G. Wodehouse

Life was always simple for Sally Nicholas-until she became rich. Being unaccustomed to possessing a great deal of money, Sally hasn't gotten the hang of it yet. This explains why she agrees to back a show written by her fiancé Gerald and staged by her brother, Fillmore. It seems like a good way to make them all happy ... but when Ginger Kemp, a rather hopeless, charming young man Sally met in Roville, appears in... (more)

The Illustrated London Reading Book 1850Various

The Illustrated London Reading Book 1850

by Various

Daddy-Long-Legs

by Marc D. Falkoff, Jean Webster

The mysterious Daddy-long-legs promises to send Jerusha Abbot to college...provided she follows his rules.

St. Athanasius

by F. A. Forbes

The dawn of a to-morrow: [and] In the closed room

The dawn of a to-morrow: [and] In the closed room

by Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 Burnett

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

In a New World, Or, Among the Gold Fields of Australia (Polyglot Press Alger)

In a New World, Or, Among the Gold Fields of Australia (Polyglot Press Alger)

by Horatio Alger

IN A NEW WORLD ANONG THE GOLD-PIBLDS OF AUSTRALIA -- CONTENTS. -- CHAPTER PAQE I. OLD F RI T I D N S J ELBOUR TE, . . 1 111. FLETCHAECIZT SS USPICIOUSLY, . . 18 IV. A TLUELY RESCTJE, . . 26 V. STARTIN F G O R THE 1In-ES, . . . 31 VI. A XIQHT ISCIDEKT, . . 40 VII. PARTIN C G O IPAXY . , . 49 VIII. A VICTIM O F TREACHERY . . 58 IX. A DISAGREEABSLUE RPRISE, . . 66 XI. TAKENC APTIVE, . . 83 XII. THE HOME OF THE... (more)

Esmeralda: A Comedy Drama In Four Acts (1909)

Esmeralda: A Comedy Drama In Four Acts (1909)

by Frances Hodgson Burnett, William Gillette

Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

Amy D. V. Chalmers was the American author of: Madge Morton's Secret (1914), Madge Morton's Trust (1914), Madge Morton's Victory (1914) and Madge Morton: Captain of the Merry Maid (1914).

Betty Gordon at Boarding School: The Treasure of Indian Chasm

Betty Gordon at Boarding School: The Treasure of Indian Chasm

by Alice B. Emerson

The wicked Tommy had a motive in asking for Libbie's suitcase. It was much smaller and lighter than any of the others, and he swung it deftly into the rack over the vinegary lady's unsuspecting head. With a deftness, born it must be confessed of previous practice, he balanced the case on the rim so that the first lurch of the train catapulted the thing down squarely on the woman's hat, snapping a shiny, hard black... (more)

Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl (Dodo Press)

Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl (Dodo Press)

by L. T. Meade

L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), a prolific writer of girls stories in late 19th century England. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime. Her most famous book was, A World of Girls, published in 1886. She was also the editor of a popular girl's magazine Atlanta. She also co-authored a number of notable mystery novels. With Robert Eustace,... (more)

Madge Morton's Secret

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

Amy D. V. Chalmers was the American author of: Madge Morton's Secret (1914), Madge Morton's Trust (1914), Madge Morton's Victory (1914) and Madge Morton: Captain of the Merry Maid (1914).

Emily Fox-Seton (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Emily Fox-Seton (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Miss Fox-Seton descended from the twopenny bus as it drew up she gathered her trim tailor-made skirt about her with neatness and decorum being well used to getting in and out of twopenny buses and to making her way across muddy London streets.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)

Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: project gutenberg

by Baroness Emma Orczy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Elizabeth Gaskell

by Lewis Carroll

by Willa Cather

by Edith Wharton

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

by Arthur Machen

by P. G. Wodehouse

by Various

by Marc D. Falkoff, Jean Webster

by F. A. Forbes

by Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924 Burnett

by Horatio Alger

by Frances Hodgson Burnett, William Gillette

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

by Alice B. Emerson

by L. T. Meade

by Amy D. V. Chalmers

by Frances Hodgson Burnett