An old carpenter carves a little wooden puppet from a mysterious piece of wood that seems to have the ability to talk! He begins to love the little cr...
Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb, Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Henny Penny, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs, Red Riding Hood and a host of...
Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English v...
An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen at a time w...
The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the greatest of...
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of this book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Trib...
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and critics of th...
This is one of several adaptations of famous classics made by Lucy Aikin under the pen name Mary Godolphin, using exclusively words of one syllable. T...
George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginning with the legendary origin of the Welsh people, then their major bards and poets...
The strange phenomenon of Prohibition, after an appearance amongst us of over three years, is still non-understandable to the majority of a great, and...
A seminal essay on the development of horror as a genre, highly influential on later writers. The Tale of Terror is a brilliant guide book for the stu...
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, gravestone epita...
It is a conversation between Rameau's nephew and his friend, known simply as "myself". It's philosophical and moral in nature, with music mixed in. Ra...
The protagonist is 15-year-old Maude Foster, a quiet and serious girl who writes poetry that explores the tensions between religious devotion and worl...
A collection of fairy tales, where most of the types are recognizable among European fairy tales, but with their own touches. I suspect literary influ...
Beautiful simple tale of a brother and two sisters who go to live temporarily at a lovely house called Rosebuds. There they find a hidden door in the...
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they...
This is a series from a Portuguese nun to her French lover who has abandoned her, and it shows the anger and frustration of a lost love and the feelin...
Betts describes consciousness as a process or a stream that begins in the cradle with the baby’s first groping for light and so at the end with the la...
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - t...
The World English Bible (WEB) is an English translation of the Bible published in 2000. It is an updated revision of the American Standard Version (19...
The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola calls his very best novel, and of which he is far more proud than of any others i...
