Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Marianne North, Thomas Hill and Myles Birket Foster. A motherless family of brothers and sisters try to run their own household and discover how much they do not know. Yonge wrote for girls and did not soften the consequences of foolishness. This edition adds a gallery of 56 plates after painters including Marianne North, Edward Hicks and Arthur Hughes, alongside one restored and coloured illustration.
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Hopes and Fears : or, Scenes from the Life of a Spinster
A Modern Telemachus : Shipwrecked Children Cross Barbary
History of France : From the Early Kings to the Third Republic
Under the Storm : or, Steadfast's Charge
Beechcroft at Rockstone : Three Girls and a Strict Aunt
Cameos from English History : From Rollo to Edward II
The Herd Boy and His Hermit : A Shepherd Boy in the Wars of the Roses
Nuttie's Father : A Girl Finds the Father She Never Knew
Love and Life : An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
Chantry House : A Family Haunted by an Old Wrong
The Caged Lion : A King of Scots, Captive in England
Peter Pan : Peter and Wendy
Through the Looking-Glass : And What Alice Found There
Little Women : or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Peter Pan : Peter and Wendy
Pollyanna Grows Up : The Second Glad Book
The Water-Babies : A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby
Historic Boys : Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
Anne of Green Gables : An Orphan Girl on a Prince Edward Island Farm
Making His Way : or, Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward
The Boy Travellers in Mexico : Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Northern and Central Mexico, Campeachey, and Yucatan
Adrift in the City : or, Oliver Conrad's Plucky Fight
The Boy Travellers on the Congo : Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent"