The beautiful Scheherazade’s royal husband threatens to kill her, so each night she diverts him by weaving wonderful tales of fantastic adventure, leaving each story unfinished so that he spares her life to hear the ending the next night.
Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages. Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; Charles Dickens; Inside the Whale; The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda; Literature and Totalitarianism; Fascism and Democracy; Patriots and Revolutionaries; Catastrophic Gradualism; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; …
Her crippled legs cured, Pollyanna takes her glad heart to cheer new friends in Boston before travelling to Europe with Aunt Polly and Dr chilton. But growing up brings sorrows as well as joys, and when she returns after six years, with Dr Chilton dead and Aunt Polly fallen on hard times, even Pollyanna has trouble maintaining her usual cheerful outlook.
The proverbial phrase ‘life’s little ironies’ was coined by Hardy for his third volume of short stories. These tales and sketches possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of description, the realistic portrayal of the quaint lore of Wessex, the ‘Chaucerian’ humour and characterisation, the shrewd and critical psychology, the poignant estimate of human nature and the brooding se…
The Secret Garden by Frances Burnett is one of the best-loved stories of all time. Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickl…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass. It is illustrated throughout by Sir John Tenniel, whose drawings for the books add so much to the enjoyment of them. Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the Red Queen and the White Rabbit all make their appearances, and are now familiar figures in writing, conversation and idiom. So too, are Carr…
The gentle thoroughbred, Black Beauty, is raised with care and is treated well until a vicious groom injures him. The damaged horse is then sold to various masters at whose hands he experiences cruelty and neglect. After many unpleasant episodes, including one where he becomes a painfully overworked cab horse in London, Black Beauty finally canters towards a happy ending. Although Anna Sewell's…
The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales contents : The Golden Bird,Hans In Luck,Jorinda And Jorindel,The Travelling Musicians,Old Sultan,The Straw, The Coal, And The Bean,Briar Rose,The Dog And The Sparrow,The Twelve Dancing Princesses,The Fisherman And His Wife,The Willow-Wren And The Bear,The Frog-Prince,Cat And Mouse In Partnership,The Goose-Girl,The Adventures Of Chanticleer And Partlet,Rapunzel,Fun…
Bagi Black Beauty, hidup bahagia adalah dapat berlari-lari dengan bebas di padang rumput yang luas. Ia menghabiskan tahun-tahun pertamanya bersama sang ibu, yang mengajarinya untuk selalu berperilaku baik dan bekerja dengan tulus serta melakukan yang terbaik. Namun, kehidupan tidak memberikan kemewahan semacam itu. Sejak usia empat, ia berganti-ganti pemilik dan mengalami berbagai perlakuan dar…
Buku ini menceritakan mengenai petualangan tida saudara, yaitu Roberta, Peter, dan Phyllis yang hidup bahagia di Vila Edgecombe, tetapi mereka tidak menyadari betapa bahagianya mereka sampai sesuatu hal terjadi. Sesuatu yang memaksa mereka menjalani kehidupan yang sangat berbeda dari sebelumnya. Ketika Ayah terpaksa pergi beberapa lama, ketiga anak itu bersama ibunya meninggalkan rumah mereka d…