Multimedia course focuses on thirteen literary classics from many different times and many different cultures. Each lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on a particular work. Read excerpts from each work and...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic short stories from prize-winning authors. One work is "How the Whale Got His Throat," a story written by the Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author, Rudyard Kipling.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author famously known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, was Kate Douglas Wiggin's most famous novel.

The de Grummond Children's Literature Digital Collection contains a selection of items from the manuscript collection located at the University of Southern Mississippi. Includes illustrations, manuscripts, letters, photographs,...

This is the full text of the English novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; this classic tale tells of an orphan, Pip, who through a series of strange circumstances first finds a trade as a blacksmith's apprentice and then learns...

Classic Reader provides a number of historical fiction pieces from famous authors. One work is a ghost story, Count Magnus, which was first published in 1904. It is part of the "The Ghosts of Antiquary" series written by Montague Rhodes...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Red Fairy Book, a book from Andrew Lang's early 1900's series, "The Fairy Books of Many Colors," and also called, "The Colored Fairy Books" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This book, The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit, also called Over the Top with the Winnebagos, was the fifty-fifth volume from the "Camp Fire Girls" adventure series from...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This early 1900's work was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author famously known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "Concerning a Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things," a piece from the early 1800's. This story was written by the French author named Honore de Balzac.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is The Pink Fairy Book, a book from Andrew Lang's early 1900's series, "The Fairy Books of Many Colors," and also called, "The Colored Fairy Books" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work, The Tin Woodman of Oz from the early 1900s, is the twelfth book from his "Oz" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1922, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the children's book, The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is a Convert of the Mission, a selection about the 1800s Wild West.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Concerning a Steeplechase Rider, a short story. Published at the turn of the 20th Century, this story was written by Andrew Barton Paterson, who was more...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is "Common People," a piece from the 1800's. This story was written by the American author named T.S. Arthur, whose full name was Timothy Shay Arthur.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1910, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This L. Frank Baum work from the early 1900s, Tik-Tok of Oz, is the eighth book from his "Oz" series.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This late 1800's work, A Summer in a Canyon, was written by Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author famously known for Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the fairy tale collection, The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. This site features the full text of the fairy tale collection, The Olive Fairy Book by Andrew Lang. This book is part of The Fairy Books of Many Colors collection, also...

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1826, one work is The Last of the Mohicans. This novel was written by James Fenimore Cooper.