The Railway Children, Vanity Fair, The Secret Garden and Jane Eyre are to name but a few of the masterpieces found within this wonderful book. Each renowned author is introduced to the reader with a brief description of their background and other works. A fantastic anthology of classic stories for children to treasure forever. Sample stories included in Classic Stories: A Little Princess, an extract by Frances Hodgson Burnett Through the Looking Glass, an extract by Lewis Carroll Black Beauty, an extract by Anna Sewell Lorna Doone, an extract by R D Blackmore The Railway Children, an extract by Edith Nesbit Vanity Fair, an extract by William Makepeace Thackeray Heidi, an extract by Johanna Spyri Little Women, an extract by Louisa May Alcott The Secret Garden, an extract by Frances Hodgson Burnett Jane Eyre, an extract by Charlotte Bronte The Wind in the Willows, an extract by Kenneth Grahame The Water Babies, an extract by Charles Kingsley What Katy Did, an extract by Susan Coolidge The Mill on the Floss, an extract by George Eliot Great Expectations, an extract by Charles Dickens Pollyanna, an extract by Eleanor H Porter The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an extract by L Frank Baum Five Children and It, an extract by Edith Nesbit Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, an extract by Lewis Carroll