Works by Eleanor Farjeon at Project Gutenberg

Online version of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, with illustrations

An author is known by the worlds he creates. The measure of his greatness is the degree of clarity and the consistency with which he builds his spirit's habita…

I was a little overworked. I had been reading a great number of manuscripts in the preceding weeks, and the mere sight of typescript was a burden to me. But be…

Online version of Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard, with illustrations

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we read…

Get stewed: Books are a load of crap.