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  Sketches by Boz: Volume 3

  Charles Dickens

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  Queen Victoria... and Prince Albert were married in 1840. Dickens uses this event as an ingenious ploy to salute and promote domestic felicity, advising young ladies upon several examples of the different types of male available as partners. There follows a section describing various married couples from whom the young ladies could possibly learn a lesson. The author then entertains with a tale of Nicholas Tulrumble, newly appointed Mayor of Mudfog, with ideas above his station. Mudfog is modelled on the town of Dickens childhood, Chatham, and he continues, with this backdrop, to regale us with a satirical tale about the first meeting of ‘The British Association for the Advancement of Everything [aka Science]’ supposedly held there. Here his imagination runs riot and the authors huge influence and importance in the evolution of humorous writing is once again confirmed.Fantastic ideas such as using cauliflowers as parachutes, theme parks for dissolute nobleman to indulge their rowdy behaviour, an automaton pickpocket that could be utilised by Her Majesties Government- the only disadvantage being it would soon wear out from overwork ! Redolent with the author’s usual swipes at the establishment and his reforming zeal Volume 3 of the Sketches is a Dickensian treat.©2011 Assembled Stories (P)2009 Assembled Stories

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  The Complete Make Believe...

  Laura Lee Hope

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  The Complete Make Believe Stories Series includes 11 children's books.The Make Believe Stories series, begun in 1918 under the pseudonym of Laura Lee Hope (best known for the Bobbsey Twins series), consisted of 12 books. The final book was published in 1923, while the series continued to be printed in different versions for years to come. It is highly likely that Lilian Garis and her husband Howard R. Garis were responsible for the writing of these books for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, although other syndicate authors may have been involved.Included in this collection:1. The Story of a Sawdust Doll (1920)2. The Story of a White Rocking Horse (1920)3. The Story of a Lamb on Wheels (1920)4. The Story of a Bold Tin Soldier (1920)5. The Story of a Candy Rabbit (1920)6. The Story of a Monkey on a Stick (1920)7. The Story of a Calico Clown (1920)8. The Story of a Nodding Donkey (1921)9. The Story of a Plush Bear (1921)10. The Story of a Stuffed Elephant (1922)11. The Story of a Woolly Dog (1923)

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  The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come

  John Fox

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  The bestselling turn-of-the-century classic. A novel that “makes one realize as never before the agonizing effects of the Civil War in a border state” (The New York Times). First serialized in Scribner’s Magazine in 1903, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is the rags-to-respectability saga of Chad Buford, an orphan of questionable parentage from the Cumberland Mountains. He is befriended first by the kind and generous Turner family in the valley of Kingdom Come Creek in Southeastern Kentucky and then by the aristocratic Major Calvin Buford in the “settlemints” of the Bluegrass. Convinced that Chad is a kinsman, the major discovers the poor boy’s blueblood pedigree and persuades him to pursue a proper education in Lexington. Before, however, he can settle down with an appropriate wife and begin to live the life of “Chadwick Buford, Gentleman,” the Civil War intervenes to separate him from his newfound status, family, and friends. In The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, “the war and its conflicts set an epic stage for the novel’s main business, the testing and maturation of a hero” (Kentucky Living).

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  The Son of Tarzan

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  This is the fourth story in the TARZAN adventure novels. This time it is the son of Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, who leads us away from the sheltered shores of 19th century England, back to the primitive jungle. Young Lord Greystoke quickly asserts his natural authority in the jungle the way an heir-apparent might ascend a throne but not without a few painful learnings. Accepted by his fellow primates, they rename him, Korak “the killer.” He is as powerful as he is clever. Though his transformation is successful, it is not without bloodshed.

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  Frog-Prince The - Story Time...

  Brothers Grimm

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  In the tale, a spoiled princess reluctantly befriends the Frog Prince, whom she met after dropping a golden ball into a pond under a linden tree, and he retrieves it for her in exchange for her friendship. The Frog Prince, who is under a wicked fairy's spell, magically transforms back into a handsome prince.

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  The Poor Little Rich Girl

  Eleanor Gates

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  "The Poor Little Rich Girl" is a novel written by Eleanor Gates, first published in 1912. The story revolves around Gwendolyn, the young daughter of wealthy parents who are too busy to spend time with her. Despite her luxurious surroundings, Gwendolyn's life is lonely and isolated. However, a sudden illness causes her to experience strange and fantastical visions, through which she gains a deeper understanding of life and learns valuable lessons about empathy and human connection.

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