Fiction

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS discovered America on the 12th of October, 1492. He had spent eighteen years in planning for that wonderful first voyage which he made across the Atlantic Ocean.

'This is fine!' he said to himself. 'This is better than whitewashing!' The sunshine struck hot on his fur, soft breezes caressed his heated brow, and after the seclusion of the cellarage he had lived in so long the carol of happy birds fell on his dulled

There came a soldier marching down the high road-one, two! one, two! He had his knapsack on his back and his sword at his side as he came home from the wars. On the road he met a witch, an ugly old witch, a witch whose lower lip dangled right down on her.

Some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's early stories for children which appeared initially in juvenile magazines ended up in collections of stories for adults. Such was the case with "Little Annie's Ramble," which appeared first in Youth's Keepsake.

Jamie discovers an old attic computer that shows a wireframe spaceship reacting to him as if it knows him. Soon he’s sketching impossible blueprints, reliving memories that aren’t his, and uncovering a past life tied to a crashed alien craft. With his

A cosmic, time‑bending adventure where Professor John Smith is dragged backstage into Creation itself, forced to repair broken anchor points in biblical history while battling the Disputers who want to erase the Word.

The children, blinking, leaned their arms on the broad, flat balustrade and gazed. Immediately below them was a lake just like a lake in "The Beauties of Italy" a lake with swans and an island and weeping willows; beyond it were green slopes dotted..

IT was a bright, beautiful, warm day when our ship spread her canvas to the breeze, and sailed for the regions of the south. Oh, how my heart bounded with delight as I listened to the merry chorus of the sailors..

Ally was lost—the little blue-eyed dear! That is to say, she was nowhere to be found. And of course there was commotion in the Valley. Michael, the gardener, was going one way; and John, the house-man, another; and Pincher, one of the loggers..

Thus De Rocca in his "Memoires sur la guerre des Francais en Espagne" has given the narrative of a Hussar, while De Naylies in his "Memoires sur la guerre d'Espagne" gives the same campaigns from the point of view of the Dragoon.

With "The Sea Fairies," my book for 1911, I ventured into a new field of fairy literature and to my delight the book was received with much approval by my former readers, many of whom have written me that they like Trot "almost as well as Dorothy."

Animal Farm (originally Animal Farm: A Fairy Story) is a satirical allegorical dystopian novella, in the form of a beast fable, by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.

A psychological story of Nahar Singh, a successful yet confused young man who struggles with identity, pressure, and comparison. As he questions success and expectations, he slowly moves toward self-awareness.

MATILDA'S ears were red and shiny. So were her cheeks. Her hands were red too. This was because Pridmore had washed her. It was not the usual washing, which makes you clean and comfortable, but the "thorough good wash," which makes you burn and smart till

What if a whole planet forgot everything? On a quiet, colorless world where no one remembers their name, their dreams, or even how to say “hello,” a small traveler arrives from the stars. Her name is Luma.

"ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS." "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." ― George Orwell

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (also known as Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque is a collection of previously-published short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1840. "Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single."

The Troll Garden is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1905.

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife’s jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the box was lost.

A gentle bedtime picture book about a pig-poodle who learns that being different is what makes her special.

With no proof that the scouts own the scout hall and campsite that has been in use since scouts first started over 100 years ago the local council have decided they own the land and plan to build a doctors surgery to start with on the land

The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

scouts go on a camping trip to Thornwick Hollow a place steeped in mystery & folk law ,some campfire story's turn out to be true warnings of unseen danger

The Little Prince became Saint-Exupéry's most successful work, selling an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, which makes it one of the best-selling in history. The book has been translated into over 505 different languages.

The Victoria 1814: The ship the Victoria left England in the spring of 1814 on a voyage to America to transport goods. The Victoria 1817: It was three years after the ship The Victoria sailed against the rocks.

In The Defenders, João Calazans Filho delivers an inspiring and action-filled tale about the global fight between good and evil for the future of our planet.

Timmy's horse, Cinnamon, runs away and the story that follows is their adventure in bringing her home.

Contre le Vent raconte l'histoire d'une jeune femme vivant dans une ville et regardant la route et pensant rêver et parfois dans l'air venteux rêvant de jours heureux. Comme une histoire romantique célèbre, nous vous conseillons de profiter de sa lec