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• Helen's Babies (1876) by John Habberton

A classic about a man who goes to take care of his two young nephews while his sister and brother-in-law are away for ten days. Their mother insists they are "the best children in the world—everybody says so."

Harvard scans are the best at (HathiTrust)

Much better scans, but the tops of the ad pagess in back are cut off. IA

Or possibly the 1899 edition with illustration (HathiTrust)

No transcription on Wikisource. 1908 edition uploaded, but never worked on.

 

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• She Stoops to Conquer

Short comedy play.

Transcription in main namespace without scans.

Probable scans of transcription at Internet Archive published 1850.

Best scans of the original 1773 publication at Internet Archive.

• Peter and Wendy (1911)

Proofed.

• Wings (1927) by John Monk Saunders

Inspired the first movie to win the Academy award for best picture: Wings (film).

Scans at IA

No transcription on Wikisource.

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Fully validated, but several scannos on read through.

I wouldn't say it's better than Anne of Green Gables, it's too choppy and rushed, but it is less melancholy.

• Sonny (1923) by Virginia Brightman

Scans at Commons

No transcription or eBook.

• The Swiss Family Robinson (Godwin)

The original 1816 translation. The only unabridged, faithful translation of the original 1812 German text.

Comments on translations

Scans: Volume 1, Volume 2

• The Door of the Double Dragon: a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-day (1920)

Scans: Internet Archive

No transcription/ebook.

• The River Road: a Novel of New England Seacoast Folk (1923)

Scans: Internet Archive

No transcription/ebook.

• Chronicles of Avonlea

Best cover

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Fully validated. 125 pages.

Recommended by Charlie.

• Adelaide Anne Procter

Poetry. “We always may be what we might have been.”

Google Books. Find better scan at Internet Archive

• Frank Stockton

Mentioned by Theodore Roosevelt in Through the Brazilian Wilderness. A dog was name “Cartucho” after a character in a book by Stockton.

• Oliver Herford

Verse quoted in Through the Brazilian Wilderness:

“I do not like my billy goat,I wish that he was dead;Because he kicked me, so he did,He kicked me with his head.”