Robin Field

Many a day we rowed together on that quiet stream…and many a fairy tale had been ex...

Originally published in 1907, The Shepherd of the Hills is Harold Bell Wright's most famo...

Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, tells the story of a teen...

Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theol...

When a jealous Zeus discovers that the compassionate Titan, Prometheus, has introduced th...

After the young Prince Edward VI of England and a peasant boy switch places, the "little ...

In an attempt to win the heart of her king and a nightly stay of execution, the beautiful...

Mark Twain spills his wit and whimsical sense of humor onto the pages of his novel The Di...

With this satirical novella, English schoolmaster Edwin A. Abbott provides both a mathema...

Working at a plantation in his youth, Joel Chandler Harris found that much of his shyness...

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits o...

“…a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the ...

Huckleberry Finn may be the greater book, but Tom Sawyer has always been more widely read...

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, with humility and gentle grit, ...

Having just lost a daughter to meningitis, Mark Twain wrote this book out of outrage towa...

Dedicating the book "to my good friend & comrade, My Wife," L. Frank Baum published The W...

When I am grown to man’s estate. I shall be very proud and great. And tell the othe...

Amidst all legend and lore surrounding America’s first president, the brilliant sta...

Beginning in 1910, Howard Roger Garis penned an Uncle Wiggily tale every day (except Sund...

The classic story, told in the first person by Jim Hawkins, whose mother kept the Admiral...

Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers. Hans Christian Andersen Althou...

Born in 1628, Parisian Charles Perrault was aptly credited as being the “father&rdq...

"Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy," advises Benjamin Franklin, and he was a ...

While Mark Twain is most often identified with his childhood home on the Mississippi, he ...

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could com...

Continuing in the aftermath of the preceding book Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer cannot see...

This 1896 novel follows the Mark Twain series of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Adv...

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could com...

“Hey nonny, nonny,” the Bard’s “greatest hits” are all here...

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a wild yarn involving a case of mistak...

This fascinating historical introduction to the Americas, via their first voyagers, reads...

First published by brothers Wilhelm & Jacob Grimm in 1812 as a collection of retold Germa...

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could com...

Born in 1800, William Holmes McGuffey had a remarkable ability to memorize, and could com...

Plato's dialogue in the Symposium, which has as its topic the subject of love, explores t...

Mother Goose's melodies belong to the children, and no addition or change should be made ...

Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Samuel C...

Aristotle’s Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first...

Once upon a time there were two princes who were twins... begins Charles Kingsley in his ...

Sing a song o' sixpence, a handful of rye, Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie; Whe...