The Prince and the Pauper

Alice follows a waistcoated rabbit underground and lands in a world that runs on its own logic. The full 12 chapters, from the pool of tears to the trial of the Knave of Hearts.

Lewis Carroll

Jim Hawkins finds a map in a dead sailor's sea chest and ships out for the island it marks. The complete novel, with Long John Silver and the mutiny that made pirate fiction what it is.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Three ghosts visit Scrooge in one night and show him what his life costs the people around him. This edition keeps the original John Leech illustrations alongside the full text.

Charles Dickens

A cyclone carries Dorothy to a country of talking scarecrows and cowardly lions, and the only way home runs through the Emerald City. The complete 1900 novel, chapter by chapter.

L. Frank Baum

A pilot stranded in the desert meets a boy from a tiny planet who asks him to draw a sheep. Short enough to finish in one sitting and written for adults as much as for children.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry