Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends by Gertrude Landa
Disclaimer: All rights belong to Gertrude Landa. I don't own anything.
Disclaimer: All rights belong to Gertrude Landa. I don't own anything.
(Book 1 of Emily Starr trilogy) Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died and her snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. *This story belongs to L. M. Montgomery. I don't own anything.
Though separated from his mother because of the family feud, Cedric's love of her and his natural virtues win the heart of his harsh grandfather. *This story belongs to Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't own anything.
*** This story belongs to Lucy Maud Montgomery. I don't own anything.
Journey of an orphan girl to find her relatives in Maraucourt. *This story belongs to Hector Malot. I don't own anything.
Book 2 of Emily Starr trilogy *This story belongs to Lucy Maud Montgomery. I don't own anything.
Book 3 of Emily Starr trilogy *This story belongs to Lucy Maud Montgomery. I don't own anything.
Rebecca's joy for life inspires people of Riverboro, but she faces many trials in her young life. *This story belongs to Kate Douglas Wiggin. I don't own anything.
Seperated from his foster mother, Remi starts a journey of the roads of France with Signor Vitalis, who travels with three dogs and a monkey. *This story belongs to Hector Malot. I don't own anything.
Pollyanna's adjustment to her surroundings is determined by "The Glad Game", which has one simple rule- to find a reason to be glad in every situation. *This story belongs to Eleanor H. Porter. I don't own anything.
*Disclaimer: This story belongs to Edith Nesbit* After their father's mysterious disappearance, three children had to leave London to live in the countryside, where they discovered the railway.
Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. It satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors' prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, he showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. During his final years in Vienn...
Prequel of "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" *This book belongs to Kate Douglas Wiggin. I don't own anything.
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor degree.
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was a German Jewish composer and one of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. In his music Mendelssohn observed Classical models and practices while initiating aspects of Romanticism-the artistic movement that exalted feeling above rigid forms and traditions.
Sick of her cruel grandmother, Jane tries to reunite her estranged parents. ***This story belongs to L.M. Montgomery. I do not own anything.
The Nursery "Alice" (1890) is a shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll - adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". It includes John Tenniel's illustrations from the original book coloured and enlarged. The work is not merely a shortened and simplified v...
(This story belongs to Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't own anything.) Marco's father, Stefan, is a patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Marco and his father come to London where Marco befriends a street urchin known as The Rat.
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, "Hamlet" dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. Cover by @vkbloodgood
Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of 154 sonnets by William Shakespeare, which covers themes such as the passage of time, love, beauty and mortality. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man; the last 28 to a woman. The sonnets are almost all constructed from three quatrains, which are four...
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertf...
Selfish and spoilt Mary was sent to Yorkshire. She hated it. But when she finds the way into a secret garden, a change comes over her life. *This story belongs to Frances Hodgson Burnett. I don't own anything.
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London ~1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients' background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. The majority...
This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashōmon to his later, more autobiographical writings. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery...
'Schoolgirl' is the novella that first established Dazai as a member of Japan's literary elite. Essentially the start of Dazai's career, the 1933 work gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language, and how it illuminated the prevalent social structures of a lost time.
Born in 1907, Nakahara Chuya was one of the most gifted and colourful of Japan's early modern poets. A bohemian romantic, his death at the early age of thirty, coupled with the delicacy of his imagery, have led to him being compared to the greatest of French symbolist poets. Since the Second World War Nakahara's statu...