A Holiday in Bed, and Other Sketches

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

185 CHAPTER XIV THE PIRATE SHIP 201 CHAPTER XV 'HOOK OR ME THIS TIME' 214 CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN HOME 232 CHAPTER XVII WHEN WENDY GREW UP ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

THE LITTLE WHITE BIRD I. David and I Set Forth Upon a Journey Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

what is this?"'

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.