Author of Audiobooks - Oliver Optic
Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain - Oliver Optic
Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
The sixth and last volume of the Woodville stories contains the record of a mechanical, rather than a moral triumph, though the virtues of patience and perseverance are incidentally illustrated, and the "little captain" of the Woodville is always a...
Hope and Have; Fanny Grant Among the Indians - Oliver Optic
Hope and Have; Fanny Grant Among the Indians - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Religion
The fifth volume of the Woodville stories contains the experience of Fanny Grant, who from a very naughty girl became a very good one, by the influence of a pure and beautiful example. The story is not an illustration of the "pleasures of hope;" but...
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General
A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life lessons of how to be kind, polite, and helpful as they grow up. Written by William Taylor Adams under the pen name "Oliver Optic."...
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon...
Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise - Oliver Optic
Work and Win; Noddy Newman on a Cruise - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
The fourth book of the Woodville Series shares 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...
In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant - Oliver Optic
In School and Out; The Conquest of Richard Grant - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Religion
The second volume of the Woodville Stories contains the experience of Richard Grant, "in school and out." We are sorry to say that Richard had become a bad boy, and was in the habit of getting into the most abominable scrapes, some of which are...
The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
The Birthday Party, A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Family
Flora Lee's birthday came in July. Her mother wished very much to celebrate the occasion in a proper manner. Flora was a good girl, and her parents were always glad to do any thing they could to please her, and to increase her happiness. This story...
Rich and Humble; The Mission of Bertha Grant - Oliver Optic
Rich and Humble; The Mission of Bertha Grant - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Religion
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn many lessons. This is the story of Bertha Grant and her brother, Richard Grant. One of these siblings is good...
The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton - Oliver Optic
The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Bunkers are a group of rebellious boys who make life miserable for many on the shores of an upstate New York Lake. Captain Sedley's son, Frank, has a run in with the boys and decides to start a boat club for his son and his friends.They learn...
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives - Oliver Optic
Watch and Wait; The Young Fugitives - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Family / Religion
One soft summer evening, when Woodville was crowned with the glory and beauty of the joyous season, three strangers presented themselves before the Grant family, and asked for counsel and assistance. The party consisted of two boys and a girl, and...
Up the River - Oliver Optic
Up the River - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not...