Masterworks of Children's Literature, Volume 5, Part Two: 1837 - 1900, The Victorian Age

637 pp. ...present[s] a carefully culled selection of the best nineteenth-century children's literature, including reproductions of many original illustrations by the superb draftsmen of the period. Volume V (in two parts) contains what Professor Wolff calls the "fiction of real life"--Catherine Sinclair's Holiday House, Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's School-Days, Charlotte M. Younge's Countess Kate, Flora Shaw's Castle Blair, and many more--stories of home and school that, "as in no other form of literature for children, bring the modern reader face to face with Victorian codes of behavior."--jacket