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This anthology of 19th-century English-language children's lit. brings together 120+ works, including poems, stories & extracts from novels. Explores both famous & lesser-known works from writers as diverse as Maria Edgeworth, Edward Lear, Louisa May Alcott, Catherine Parr Traill, Charles Kingsley, Horatio Alger Jr., Susan Coolidge, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ethel Turner, Thomas Hardy, Frances Hodgson Burnett & Rudyard Kipling. All texts are organized chronologically; they can also be referenced by theme, genre, author & country. The introduction sets out four key criteria for selecting the texts: that they are historically significant, representative of their period or country, readable, & comprehensible in extract form.