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The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It

10 best books like The Enchanted Castle and Five Children and It (E. Nesbit): The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Selected Stories, Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea, Sailing Alone around the World, Common Sense and Other Writings, The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, Night and Day, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York, Daisy Miller and Washington Square, Manxmouse

The Life of Charlotte Brontë
AuthorElizabeth Gaskell
ISBN0192838059
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all...
Selected Stories
AuthorO. Henry
ISBN1593080425
O. Henry originated the humorous, energetic tale that ends with an ironic, even shocking twist. In "After Twenty Years," for example, two boys agree to meet at a particular spot exactly twenty years later. Both are faithful, but in the intervening years one boy has turned into a criminal, the other into...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
AuthorRichard Henry Dana Jr.
ISBN1402179626
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.

While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour...
Sailing Alone around the World
AuthorJoshua Slocum
ISBN0140437363
The classic travel narrative of a Don Quixote-of-the-seas – the first man to circumnavigate the world singlehandedly.

Joshua Slocum’s autobiographical account of his solo trip around the world is one of the most remarkable – and entertaining – travel narratives of all time. Setting...
Common Sense and Other Writings
AuthorThomas Paine
ISBN1593082096
Introduction and Notes by Joyce Appleby

Though he didn't emigrate from England to the colonies until 1774, just a few months before the Revolutionary War began, Thomas Paine had an enormous impact on that war & the new nation that emerged from it. Common Sense, the instantly popular pamphlet...
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
AuthorOwen Wister
ISBN0743238028
In the untamed West, pioneers came to test their fortunes -- and their wills. The Wyoming territory was a harsh, unforgiving land, with its own unwritten code of honor by which men lived and died. Into this rough landscape rides the Virginian, a solitary man whose unbending will is his only guide through...
Night and Day
AuthorVirginia Woolf
ISBN0140185682
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women - women's rights activist...
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York
AuthorStephen Crane
ISBN0140437975
"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."—Alfred Kazin.
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,...
Daisy Miller and Washington Square
AuthorHenry James
ISBN1593081057
In Henry James''s "Daisy Miller, a young American woman ventures into sophisticated European society, where her naivete provokes scandal and tragedy. Graham Greene called "Washington Square "the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable...
Manxmouse
AuthorPaul Gallico
ISBN0698102371
I was starting to think I was the only person on earth who'd read this book, till I saw J.K. Rowling listing it as one of her childhood favorites. It was definitely one of mine, too!

MANXMOUSE is the story of a mouse, accidentally created by a drunken ceramics maker, who magically comes to life....
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
English Fairy Tales
AuthorFlora Annie Steel
ISBN1853261335
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different...
Ethan Frome and Selected Stories
AuthorEdith Wharton
ISBN1593080905
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN1593082304
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
AuthorCorinne Demas
ISBN1593080867
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural...
Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales
AuthorHerman Melville
ISBN1593082533
Largely neglected in his own lifetime, Herman Melville mastered not only the great American novel but also the short story and novella forms. In Billy Budd and The Piazza Tales, Melville reveals an uncanny awareness of the inscrutable nature of reality.



Published posthumously...
Silas Marner and Two Short Stories
AuthorGeorge Eliot
ISBN1593082517
George Eliot’s third novel, Silas Marner (1861) is a powerful and moving tale about one man’s journey from exile and loneliness to the warmth and joy of the family.

The story opens as Silas Marner, falsely accused of theft, loses everything, including his faith in God. Embittered and...
Cross Your Heart, Connie Pickles
AuthorSabine Durrant
ISBN0060854790
Love, money, friendship . . . and incredibly uncomfortable underwear ? All these eternal mysteries are small challenges to Constance de Bellechasse. Too bad the glamorous inner persona of Constance comes through only as plain old Connie Pickles in everyday life.

Connie's first order of...
Voices in the Dark
AuthorCatherine Banner
ISBN0375838775
Asking for the truth can be as painful as telling it. . . .

Anselm Andros has clearly defined roles in his family and they are roles he plays very well—he is confidante to his mother, Maria. He is the confessor to his stepfather, Leo, a man haunted by the secrets of his past. And Anselm is also the...
The Story of Cirrus Flux
AuthorMatthew Skelton
ISBN0141320370
I had to dive into the children’s section of my library to get this one. I haven’t been in there for ages. There were short people around! And all the shelves are much shorter! Still, it was worth it. The Story of Cirrus Flux is an interesting attempt to set a children’s adventure novel in Georgian...
1936... On the Continent
AuthorFodor's Travel Publications Inc.
ISBN0307928667
Three years before the start of WWII, Eugene Fodor published his first guidebook, 1936–-On the Continent–The Entertaining Travel Annual. Fodor's goal was to create a fun-to-read, annually updated guidebook about Europe that emphasized the people and culture of a country--a radical change...
The House of the Dead/Poor Folk
AuthorFyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN1593081944
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
The Half Life of Stars
AuthorLouise Wener
ISBN0060841737
Claire's older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he just had enough?

Set...
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays
AuthorGeorge Bernard Shaw
ISBN1593080786
Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, by George Bernard Shaw, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
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