- Johanna Spyri
Old Mary Ann has done her best to bring up her son on her own. Like other relatives, her son has a longing to travel off over the mountains. Mary...
The Woodpeckers
- Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
The Woodpeckers is a wonderful introduction to the world of bird study for the young naturalist, covering such topics as how he finds food,...
The Wonder Garden
- Frances Jenkins Olcott
Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transformations of...
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight....
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Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. It is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet...
Working on God
- Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray wrote "Working for God", a book of daily meditations for a month, as a sequel to "Waiting on God". The object of the book is, in...
Andrew Murray wrote in the introduction to this daily devotional book of one month's readings, of the need that many Christians feel of being...
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln - Volume 5: 1858
On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City. When he gave the speech, Lincoln was considered by...
- Thomas Hardy
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to...
The World English Bible
The World English Bible, also known as the WEB, is an updated revision of the American Standard Version. It is one of the few modern-English...
The White Linen Nurse
- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring for the...
Water Goats and Other Troubles
- Ellis Parker Butler
Three humorous short stories. All revolved around convoluted a lie.
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Wood Beyond the World
- William Morris
The Wood beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the...
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives
- U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects...
- Jacob Abbott
William I, also known as William the Conqueror was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. This volume is dedicated...
White Nights and Other Stories
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
White Nights and Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a compilation of stories. It contains these 7 works:
- White Nights
- Notes...
Where the Path Breaks
- Captain Charles de Créspigny
The soldier awakened from the brink of death eight months after his injury on the battlefield. As he slowly regained his senses and his memory,...
Way of a Rebel
- Walter M. Miller
Lieutenant Laskell surfaced his one-man submarine fifty miles off the Florida coast where he had been patrolling in search of enemy subs. Darkness...
Woman on the American Frontier
- William Worthington Fowler
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children...
Woman and the New Race
- Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point,...
- Pansy
Immature Mr. Tresevant (from "The King's Daughter") comes to Newton with his spoiled wife to be the new pastor of the church attended by Dr. and...
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 3
- Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French...
Weird Tales - Volume 2
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
This recording includes both volumes of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Weird Tales, a collection of gothic novellas set in Germany, Italy, and some of the...
The Web of the Golden Spider
- Frederick Bartlett
The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage,...
'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-...