A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

Beatrix Potter

[Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE FREDERICK WARNE First published 1902 Frederick Warne & Co., 1902 Printed and bound in Great Britain by William Clowes Limited, Beccles and London [Illustr...

Beatrix Potter

AUTHOR OF "THE TAIL OF PETER RABBIT," &C. [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE & CO., INC.

Beatrix Potter

_Author of_ "_The Tale of Peter Rabbit_" [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE [Illustration] FREDERICK WARNE 1903 by Frederick Warne & Co.

Beatrix Potter

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets--when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta--there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

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.