Peter Pan is vanishing. Unauthorized changes have tinkered with J.M. Barrie’s magic. How can we know that the book we call “Peter Pan” is presented the way Barrie first penned it? Since the mid-20th century, readers couldn’t be certain─ until this edition.With the award-winning “Hook & Jill” Saga, the Reginetta Press drew grown-up readers back to the Neverland. Now it carries us to the Island again, this time on the wings of Barrie’s own words….“All children, except one, gr...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. In the present volume will be found twenty stories from early writers for children, the period being roughly 1790 to 1830, with three later and more sophisticated efforts added. Having so recently made remarks on the character of these old books – in the preface last year to Old-Fashioned Tales, a companion volume to this – I have very little to say now, except that I hope the selection will be found to...

Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister who faces financial ruin. Agnes decides to take up one of the only professions available to Victorian gentlewomen and become a governess. Drawing on her own, similar experiences, Anne Bronte portrays the desperation of such a position. Agnes' livelihood depends on the whim of spoiled children, and she witnesses how wealth and status can degrade social values.

✨ Step into the world of industrial England with Shirley—a novel that captures the pulse of society's struggles and the heart of human resilience.* Follow the stories of Shirley Keeldar, a spirited and independent heiress, and Caroline Helstone, a gentle yet determined young woman, as they navigate love, friendship, and the changing tides of the Industrial Revolution. Brontë masterfully weaves romance, social critique, and human courage in this timeless tale of empowerment and defiance....

This illustrated treasury gathers more than ninety Christmas classics into a capacious panorama of winter ritual, charity, childhood wonder, moral reckoning, and supernatural unease. Its contents range across fairy tale, realist sketch, domestic fiction, comic anecdote, devotional meditation, and Gothic fantasy, placing familiar seasonal consolations beside darker visions of poverty, loneliness, and redemption. Standout modes include enchanted journeys, haunted visitations, village scenes,...

A collection of the best collected and uncollected short stories written by Charles Dickens. It contains:• Uncollected Short Stories: The Lamplighter, Captain Murderer, To Be Read At Dusk, Hunted Down, Three Ghost Stories, George Silverman's Explanation, Holiday Romance - In Four Parts, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Cricket On The Hearth.• Christmas Short Stories: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story Of Christmas, A Christmas Tree, What Christmas Is As We Grow Older, Tom Tiddler'...

During a remarkably severe winter, when a prodigious fall of snow confined everybody to their habitations, who were happy enough to have one to shelter them from the inclemency of the season, and were hot obliged by business to expose themselves to its rigour, I was on a visit to Meadow Hall; where had assembled likewise a large party of young folk, who all seemed, by their harmony and good humour, to strive who should the most contribute to render pleasant that confinement which we were a...

Our great lexicographer, in his celebrated eulogium on Dr. Watts, thus speaks in commendation of those productions which he so successfully penned for the pleasure and instruction of the juvenile portion of the community.