In 1866, ships of several nations spot a mysterious sea monster, which some suggest is a giant narwhal. The US government assembles an expedition to find and destroy the monster. Professor Pierre Aronnax, a French marine biologist (and narrator within the story) receives a last-minute invitation to join the expedition. As the expedition travels south around Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean, the crew finds the monster after a long search and then attack it, but the ship is damaged with the three main protagonists thrown into the water. They are quickly captured and then meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo. ~ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne and was originally published in 1870. The novel was originally serialized between March 1869 and June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation. An illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Cover done by @sinadan

Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm (1785-1863) y Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859) eran dos hermanos nacidos en Alemania, que tenían como profesión el estudio de la filología y el folclore. Debido a ello, recorrieron su país y fueron hablando con los campesinos, con las vendedoras de los mercados, con los leñadores, para aprender de ellos. Jacob y Wilhelm Grimm recogían historias de los lugareños, además de estudiar la lengua y su uso, el antiguo folclore de la región, etc. Iban de acá para allá, interrogaban a la gente, les pedían que buceasen en su memoria en busca de los cuentos que les contaban de pequeños, y tomaban notas inmediatamente. Con sus investigaciones de las traiciones y de la lengua alemana ellos defendían a su país. Los hermanos Grimm, en esos recorridos, escuchaban las leyendas que los campesinos alemanes habían oído a sus abuelos y que estos, a su vez, habían aprendido también de sus abuelos.Los Grimm obtuvieron de una mujer llamada Pastora la mayor parte de las historias que luego recopilaron como Cuentos para la infancia y el hogar, en dos volúmenes, 1812-1815. Y la colección es aumentada en 1857, y conocida como Cuentos de hadas de los hermanos Grimm. Cuentos infantiles y caseros, en 1812. Estos dos hermanos recrearon las historias de los campesinos, y las contaron con gracia y gran sencillez, y lograron que los niños del mundo entero apreciaran la belleza y la maravilla de sus cuentos. De esta manera, hicieron conocer preciosas historias: Hansel y Gretel, Blanca-nieves, La pequeña vendedora de cerillas, Juan Sin Miedo, y muchas más. El trabajo científico más importante de Jacob Grimm es la Gramática alemana (1819-1837). Wilhelm murió el 16 de diciembre de 1859 y el 20 de septiembre de 1863 Jacob.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own and did not write this story. It is a copy of Original Book by Robert Louis Stevenson that I have uploaded here because it was way better to read than the PDF I was given in school. But I decided to let it stay here to help spread the book to wider audiences. Hope you enjoy. ----- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co. Year: 1886 ----- It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next. ------------

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since been reprinted on numerous occasions, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical as well as the iconic 1939 musical film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. Its groundbreaking success and the success of the Broadway musical adapted from the novel led Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books that serve as official sequels to the first story.