Oliver Optic: 97 books

Book cover of Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

DOWN THE RIVER is the sixth of the continued stories published in OUR BOYS AND GIRLS, and the last of THE STARRY FLAG SERIES. It is the personal narrative of Buck Bradford, who, with his deformed sister, made an eventful voyage down the Wisconsin and Mississippi Rivers, to New Orleans. The writer's first...
Book cover of The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2016

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. They were very indulgent parents, and as they had plenty of...
Book cover of Proud and Lazy A Story for Little Folks
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

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.
Book cover of The Yacht Club
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing
by Oliver Optic
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. ASIATIC BREEZES is the fourth volume of the second series of the All-Over-the-World Library. Starting out from Alexandria, Egypt, after the adventures and explorations of the Guardian-Mother party in that interesting...
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...
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