Optic: 98 books

Book cover of Proud and Lazy: A Story for Little Folks
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016

Tommy Woggs was a funny little boy. He was very proud and very lazy. He seemed to think he was a great man, and that other people lived only to serve and obey him.None of the boys and girls liked him, because he used to order them round, and because he thought himself so much better than they were....
Book cover of Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
by Oliver Optic, A. B. Shute
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FOUR YOUNG EXPLORERS is the third volume of the third series of the All-Over-the-World Library. When the young millionaire and his three companions of about his own age, with a chosen list of near and dear friends,...
Book cover of Little Bobtail; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

"Little Bobtail" is the first volume of the Yacht Club Series, each book of which will contain an entirely independent story, with a hero of its own, and having no necessary connection with any other story. The author hopes that this plan will commend itself to those who do not care to follow a young...
Book cover of Plane and Plank; or, The Mishaps of a Mechanic
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2016

"Plane and Plank" is the second of The Upward and Onward Series, in which the hero, Phil Farringford, appears as a mechanic. The events of the story are located on the Missouri River and in the city of St. Louis. Phil learns the trade of a carpenter, and the contrast between a young mechanic of an...
Book cover of Down the Rhine: Young America in Germany
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

Down the Rhine, the sixth and last volume of the first series of "Young America Abroad," is the conclusion of the history of the Academy Squadron on its first voyage to Europe, with the excursion of the students and their friends into Germany, and down its most beautiful river. As in the preceding volumes...
Book cover of All Adrift; Or, The Goldwing Club
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016

"All Adrift" is the first volume of a new set of books, to be known as "The Boat-Builder Series." The story contains the adventures of a boy who is trying to do something to help support the family, but who finds himself all adrift in the world. He has the reputation of being rather "wild," though...
Book cover of Vine and Olive; Or, Young America in Spain and Portugal
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015

Vine and Olive, the fifth volume of the second series of “Young America Abroad,” contains the history of the Academy Squadron during the cruise along the shores of Spain and Portugal, and the travels of the students in the peninsula. As in the preceding volumes, the professor of geography and...
Book cover of Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016

"Freaks of Fortune" is the fourth of the serial stories published in "Our Boys and Girls." It was written in response to a great number of calls for a sequel to "The Starry Flag." The author was pleased to learn that Levi Fairfield had made so pleasant an impression upon his young friends, and the...
Book cover of Desk and Debit; or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016

"Desk and Debit" is the third of "The Upward and Onward Series," in which Phil Farringford appears as a clerk. The principal events of the story are located in Chicago and on Lake Michigan—the latter, perhaps, because the author finds it quite impossible to write a story without a boat, which also...
Book cover of All Aboard Or, Life on The Lake: a Sequel to "The Boat Club"
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...
Book cover of All Taut
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

Thrilling tale for young readers ages  to 80 about sailing ships.
Book cover of Northern Lands - Young America in Russia and Prussia
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017

Northern Lands, the second volume of the second series of "Young America Abroad," describes the varied experience of the juvenile tourists of the Academy Squadron in the Baltic, and during their journeys in Russia and Prussia, and their voyages between the different ports in these countries. Compared...
Book cover of Living Too Fast
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

Book cover of Work and Win; Or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016

IN the preparation of this volume, the author has had in his mind the intention to delineate the progress of a boy whose education had been neglected, and whose moral attributes were of the lowest order, from vice and indifference to the development of a high moral and religious principle in the heart,...
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