Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of four familiar and best seller historical novels This collection contains The Girl of the Golden West In the 19th century town of Cloudy Mountain, California, Mary Robbins (Jeanette MacDonald) runs the Polka saloon and serenades her customers with her beautiful singing Men of Iron Men of Iron is an 1891 novel by the American author Howard Pyle, who also illustrated it. Set in the 15th century, it is a juvenile "coming of age" work in which a young squire, Myles Falworth, seeks not only to become a knight but to eventually redeem his father's honor The Prince and the Pauper The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fictio A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations Of An Optimist In this serious attempt to forecast the changes ahead in the 20th century from the year 1906, the author deals with the accelerating rate of scientific progress, housing, travel, population, business, pleasure, newspapers, utilization of the sea, science, education, religion, economics, and law
