Children's classic books - Softcover

Collodi, Carlo; Carroll, Lewis; Swift, Jonathan; David Wyss, Johann; Dickens, Charles; Verne, Jules; Kipling, Rudyard; Frank Baum, L.; Day, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1533119058 ISBN 13: 9781533119056

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

In this book: Pinocchio, The Tale of a Puppet Carlo Collodi Translator: Mary Alice Murray Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift The Swiss Family Robinson Johann David Wyss Translator: William Henry Giles Kingston A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling The Wonderful Wizard of Oz L. Frank Baum The History of Sandford and Merton Thomas Day

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About the Author:

Carlo Collodi is the pen name of Italian author Carlo Lorenzini, creator of the beloved children s character, Pinocchio. A Tuscan who fought in Italy s wars of unification, Collodi was already a famous novelist and popular translator of French fairy tales when he began to contribute chapters in the life of a marionette to Italy s first newspaper for children, Il Giornale per i Bambini. The adventures of the disobedient puppet were an immediate success and Pinocchio s story has been translated and adapted numerous times, including the classic 1940 animated production from Walt Disney. Collodi died in 1890.

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an English writer, mathematician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. Best known for his classics Alice s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Jabberwocky, Carroll was also an accomplished inventor who created an early version of what is today known as Scrabble. The publication of Alice s Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 brought Carroll a certain level of fame, although he continued to supplement his income through his work as a mathematics tutor at Christ Church, Oxford College. Carroll s whimsical characters and nonsensical verse resonated with Victorian-era readers, and his books continue to be enjoyed by numerous modern societies dedicated to his promoting his works.

Born in 1667, Jonathan Swift was an Irish writer and cleric, best known for his works Gulliver s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Journal to Stella, amongst many others. Educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Swift received his Doctor of Divinity in February 1702, and eventually became Dean of St. Patrick s Cathedral in Dublin. Publishing under the names of Lemeul Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, and M. B. Drapier, Swift was a prolific writer who, in addition to his prose works, composed poetry, essays, and political pamphlets for both the Whigs and the Tories, and is considered to be one of the foremost English-language satirists, mastering both the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. Swift died in 1745, leaving the bulk of his fortune to found St. Patrick s Hospital for Imbeciles, a hospital for the mentally ill, which continues to operate as a psychiatric hospital today.

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