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17 short stories from the book twenty-Five Ghost Stories and 13 shorts from the book Indian Ghost Stories

Carlo Collodi (1826 - 1890)Translated by Carol Della Chiesa (1887 - 1972)Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys.Pinocchio is a puppet made from a piece of wood that curiously could talk even before being carved. A wooden-head he starts and a wooden-head he stays - until after years of misadventures caused by his laziness and failure to keep promises he finally learns to care about his family - and then he becomes a real boy.For those who have seen the ...

Ali Baba vindt een schat van roovers en neemt een deel van de schat weg. Uiteraard willen de roovers wraak nemen.

Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 - 1950)This is the fifth of Burroughs' Tarzan novels.Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by Sarah Jennings.)

Thornton W. Burgess (1874 - 1965)"The Adventures of Reddy Fox" is another installment in the series of children's stories authored by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this narrative, Reddy and Granny Fox find themselves pitted against Farmer Brown's Boy, who is determined to catch Reddy for his theft of a pet chicken. As the story unfolds, Reddy interacts with various inhabitants of the Green Meadows and the Green Forest, and through his experiences, we glean valuable life lessons. These lessons include the dangers of boasting, the significance of utilizing all one's senses, the ...

The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870)Translated by William Robson (1785 - 1863)The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of the most adored French musketeer of that period, Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan. Volume 1 introduces d’Artagnan as a young man, seeking to earn the glory of serving in the King’s Musketeers. While in pursuit of this aim, d’Artagnan befriends three musketeers – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis – who aid him in ...

Bram Stoker (1847 - 1912)Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. It introduced Count Dracula, and established many conventions of subsequent vampire fantasy. The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. - Summary by Wikipedia

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri, where Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn have the kinds of adventures many boys can imagine: racing bugs during class, impressing girls, especially Becky Thatcher, with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River.One of the most famous incidents in the book describes how Tom persuades his ...

As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name.