High Interest, Easy Reading

This collection of 204 books was custom made for DARS Division of Blind Services in Austin, TX. It is intended to provide high-interest reading material for adults with relatively low reading skills.

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Table of Contents

Jacob Abbott

• Julius Caesar
• Charles I
• Charles II
• Cleopatra
• King Alfred
• Margaret of Anjou
• Peter the Great
• Richard I
• William the Conqueror
• Xerxes

Joseph Altsheler

• The French and Indian War Series
• Hunters of the Hills
• The Shadow of the North, a Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign, 1917
• The Rulers of the Lakes, a Story of George and Champlain
• Masters of the Peaks, a Story of the Great North Woods, 1918
• The Lords of the Wild, a Story of the Old New York Border, 1919
• The Sun of Quebec: a Story of a Great Crisis
• The Young Trailers Series
• The Young Trailers
• Forest Runners, a Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky
• The Keepers of the Trail, a Story of the Great Woods
• The Eyes of the Woods, a Story of the Ancient Wilderness
• The Free Rangers, a Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi
• Scouts of the Valley
• The Border Watch
• The Texan Series
• The Texan Star
• The Texan Scouts
• Civil War Series
• Before the Dawn
• The Guns of Bull Run
• The Guns of Shiloh
• The Scouts of Stonewall
• The Sword of Antietam
• The Star of Gettyburg
• The Rock of Chickamauga
• Shades of the Wilderness
• Tree of Appomatox
• The Great West Series
• The Last of the Chiefs: a Story of the Great Sioux War
• The World War Series
• The Forest of Swords
• Hosts of the Air

Sir Francis Bacon

• Essays

Edgar Rice Burroughs

• Mars (Barsoom) Books
• A Princess of Mars
• The Gods of mars
• The Warlord of Mars
• Thuvia, Maid of Mars
• The Chessmen of Mars
• Tarzan Books
• Tarzan of the apes
• The Return of Tarzan
• The Beasts of Tarzan
• The Son of Tarzan
• Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar
• Jungle Tales of Tarzan
• Tarzan the Untamed
• Tarzan the Terrible

Alexandre Dumas

• Celebrated Crimes -- 18 books in a single file
• The Borgias
• The Cenci
• Massacres of the South
• Mary Stuart
• Karl-Ludwig Sand
• Urbain Grandier
• Nisida
• Desrues
• La Constantin
• Joan of Naples
• The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
• Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
• Ali Pacha
• The Countess of Saint Geran
• Murat
• The Marquise de Brinvilliers
• Vaninka
• The Marquise de Ganges
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• The Three Musketeers Saga in English
• The Three Musketeers (covering 1625-1628)
• Twenty Years After (covering 1648-49)
• The Vicomte de Bragelonne (covering 1660)
• Ten Years Later (covering 1660-1661)
• Louise de la Valliere (covering 1661)
• The Man in the Iron Mask (covering 1661-1673)

G.A. Henty

• Among the Malay Pirates
• At Aboukir and Acre, a Story go Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
• At Agincourt
• At the Point of the Bayonet, a Tale of the Mahratta War
• Beric the Briton
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Both Sides of the Border: a Tale of Hotspur and glendower
• The Boy Knight: a Tale of the Crusades
• The Bravest of the Brave
• By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604)
• By Pike and Dyke, a Tale of theRise of the Dutch Republic
• By Right of Conquest or With Cortez in Mexico
• By Sheer Pluck: a Tale of the Ashanti War
• Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
• The Cornet of the Horse: a Tale of Marlborough's Wars
• the Dash for Khartoum, a Tale of the Nile Expedition
• The Dragon and the Raven
• Final Recknoing, a Tale of Bush Life in Australia
• For Name and Fame, or Through Afghan Passes
• For the Temple, a Tale of the FAll of Jerusalem
• Forest and Frontiers
• In Freedom's Cause
• Friends Though Divided: a Tale of the Civil War
• A Girl of the Commune
• The Golden Canyon
• In the Heart of the Rockies
• Held Fast for England, A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
• In the Irish Brigade
• In the Reign of Terror
• In Times of Peril
• Jack Archer, a Tale of the Crimea
• Jacobite Exile
• The Knight of the White Cross
• The Lion of the North (see also sequel Won by the Sword)
• The Lion of St. Mark
• A March on London
• No Surrender, a Tale of the Rising in La Vendee
• On the Irrawaddy, a Story of the First Burmese War
• On the Pampas
• One of the 28th, a tale of Waterloo
• Orange and Green
• The Queen's Cup
• Rujub the Juggler
• Saint Bartholemew's Eve, a Tale of the Huguenot Wars
• Saint George for England
• Tales of Daring and Danger
• The Tiger of Mysore: a Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
• Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots
• Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitaral, Tirah, and Ashanti
• The Treasure of the Incas
• True to the Old Flag: a Tale of the American War of Independence
• Under Drake's Falg, a Tale of the Spanish Main
• Under Wellington's Command, a Tale of the Peninsular War
• When London Burned
• Winning His Spurs: a Tale of the Crusades
• With Buller in Natal
• With Clive in India: or the Beginnings of an Empire
• With Frederick the Great, a Story of the Seven Years' War
• With Kitchener in the Soudan: a Story of Atbara and Omburman
• With Lee in Virginia
• With Moore at Corunna
• With Wolfe in Canada
• Won by the Sword (= sequel of The Lion of the North)
• Wulf the Saxon
• The Young Buglers
• The Young Carthaginian
• The Young Franc Tireurs and Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War

Charles and Mary Lamb

• Tales from Shakespeare

Andrew Lang

• Arabian Nights Entertainments
• The Blue Fairy Book
• The Brown Fairy Book
• The Crimson Fairy Book
• The Disentanglers
• The Gold of Airnile
• The Green Fairy Book
• The Grey Fairy Book
• Historical Mysteries
• The Lilac Fairy Book
• Much Darker Days
• The Orange Fairy Book
• The Pink Fairy Book
• Prince Prigio
• The Red Fairy Book
• Tales of Troy
• The Violet Fairy Book
• The Yellow Fairy Book

Ernest Thompson Seton

• Animal Heroes
• The Biography of a Grizzly
• Johnny Bear and Other Stories
• Lobo, Rag, and Vixen, 1908
• Monarch the Big Beaer of Tallac
• Rolf in the Woods
• Two Little Savages
• Wild Animals I Have Known

Robert Louis Stevenson

• Kidnapped
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Treasure Island

Mark Twain (AKA Samuel Clemens)

• 1601 or Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors (story)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
• The $30,000 Bequest
• A Dog's Tale
• Was It Heaven?  Or Hell?
• A Cure for the Blues
• The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant
• The Californian's Tale
• A Helpless Situation
• A Telephonic Conversation
• Edward Mills and George Benton:  A Tale
• The Five Boons of Life
• The First Writing-machines
• Italian without a Master
• Italian with Grammar
• A Burlesque Biography
• How to Tell a Story
• General Washington's Negro Body-servant
• Wit Inspirations of the "Two-year-olds"
• An Entertaining Article
• A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
• Amended Obituaries
• A Monument to Adam
• A Humane Word from Satan
• Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English"
• Advice to Little Girls
• Post-mortem Poetry
• The Danger of Lying in Bed
• Portrait of King William III
• Does the Race of Man Love a Lord?
• Extracts from Adam's Diary
• Eve's Diary
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
• The Loves of Alonzo Fitz Clarence and Rosannah Ethelton
• On the Decay of the Art of Lying
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature
• The Grateful Poodle
• The Benevolent Author
• The Grateful Husband
• Punch, Brothers, Puch
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Canvasser's Tale
• An Encounter with an Interviewer
• Paris Notes
• Legend of Sagenfeld, in Germany
• Speech on the Babies
• Speech on the Weather
• Concerning the American Language
• Rogers
• The American Claimant
• The Carnival of Crime in Connecticut (story)
• Chapters from My Autobiography
• Christian Science
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches
• The Curious Republic of Gondour
• A Memory
• Introductory to "Memoranda"
• About Smelt
• A Couple of Sad Experiences
• Dan Murphy
• The "Tournament" in A.D. 1870
• Curious Relic for Sale
• A Reminiscence fo the Back Settlements
• A Royal Compliment
• The Approaching Epidemic
• The Tone-Imparting Committee
• Our Precious Lunatic
• The European War
• The Wild Man Interviewed
• Last Words of Great Men
• A Dog's Tale (story)
• A Double Barrelled Detective (story)
• Editorial Wild Oats
• Essays on Paul Bourget
• Extract's from Adam's Diary (story)
• Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (story)
• Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences (essay)
• The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
• Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again (story)
• A Horse's Tale (story)
• How to Tell a Story and Others (stories and essays)
• How to Tell a Story
• The Wounded Soldier
• The Golden Arm
• Mental Telegraphy Again
• The Invalid's Story
• In Defence of Harriet Shelley (essay)
• The Innocents Abroad
• Life on the Mississippi
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg
• My First Lie, and How I Got Out of IT
• The Exquimaux Maiden's Romance
• Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy
• Is He Living or Is He Dead?
• My Debut as a Literary Person
• At the Appetite-Cure
• Concerning the Jews
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• About Play-Acting
• Travelling with a Reformer
• Diplomatic Pay and Clothes
• Luck
• The Captain's Story
• Stirring Times in Austria
• Meisterschaft
• My Boyhood Dreams
• To the Above Old People
• In Memoriam -- Olivia Susan Clemens
• The Mysterious Stranger (stories)
• The Mysterious Stranger
• A Fable
• Hunting the Deceitful Turkey
• The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 1)
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (volume 2)
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Pudd'nhead Wilson
• Rambling Idle Excursion (story)
• Roughing It
• Sketches New and Old
• My Watch
• Political Economy
• The Jumping Frog
• Journalism in Tennessee
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy
• The Story of the Good Little Boy
• A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
• Niagara
• Answers to Correspondents
• To Raise Poultry
• Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
• My First Literary Venture
• How the Author was Sold in Newark
• The Office Bore
• Johnny Greer
• The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
• The Case of George Fisher
• Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
• The Judges "Spirited Woman"
• Information Wanted
• Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girld
• My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
• A Fashion Item
• Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
• A Fine Old Man
• Science vs. Luck
• The Late Benjamin Franklin
• Mr. Bloke's Item
• A Medieval Romance
• Petition Concerning Copyright
• After-Dinner Speech
• Lionizing Murderers
• A New Crime
• A Curious Dream
• A True Story
• The Siamese Twins
• Speech a thte Scottish Banquet in London
• A Ghost Story
• The Capitoline Venus
• Speech on Accident Insurance
• John Chinaman in New York
• How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
• The Petrified Man
• My Bloody Massacre
• The Undertaker's Chat
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• "After" Jenkins
• About Barbers
• "Party Cries" in Ireland
• The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
• History Repeats Itself
• Honored as a Curiosity
• First Interview with Artemus Ward
• Cannibalism in the Cars
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• The Widow's Protext
• The Scriptural Panoramist
• Curing a Cold
• A Curious Pleasure Excursion
• Running for Governor
• A Mysterious Visit
• Speeches
• The Stolen White Elephant (story)
• Those Extraordinary Twins (story)
• Tom Sawyer Abroad (story)
• Tom Sawyer, Detective (story)
• A Tramp Abroad
• What Is Man? And Other Essays
• What Is Man?
• The Death of Jean
• The Turning-Point of My Life
• How to Make History Dates Stick
• The Memorable Assassination
• A Scrap of Curious History
• Switzerland, the Cradle of Liberty
• At the Shrine of St. Wagner
• William Dean Howells
• English as She is Taught
• A Simplified Alphabet
• As Concerns Interpreting the Deity
• Concerning Tobacco
• Taming the Bicycle
• Is Shakespeare Dead?
• 4 books about Mark Twain
• Complete Letters of Mark Twain 1853-1910, arranged with comment by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Mark Twain: A Biography (in three volumes) by Albert Bigelow Paine
• The Boy's Life of Mark Twain by Albert Bigelow Paine
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances: My Mark Twain by William Dean Howells
• essay by Mark Twain about Mark Twain
A Burlesque Autobiography by Mark Twain