THE BROTHERS GRIMM FAIRY TALESTHE GOLDEN BIRDA certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone. The king became very angry at this, and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree. The gardener set his eldest son to watch; but about twelve o’clock he fell asleep, an...

The second book in Suzanne Collins's phenomenal and worldwide bestselling Hunger Games trilogy.Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, ...

The lore of ancient Ireland comes to life in this collection of classic folk tales retold for modern readers written by James Stephens and published in 1920.

Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera is a richly atmospheric tale of obsession, art, and terror set within the labyrinthine Paris Opéra. Combining mystery, Gothic horror, melodrama, and detective fiction, the novel unfolds through documents, testimonies, and investigative reconstruction, giving supernatural legend the texture of plausible fact. Its masked figure, Erik, belongs to the fin-de-siècle tradition of the monstrous outsider, while the opera house itself becomes a symbolic stag...

* Illustrated* Author Biography* Interactive Table of Contents* Free Audiobook DownloadJapanese Fairy Tales [ Illustrated ] [ Free Audiobooks Download ]First published in 1908, this is a book of “beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan” that were collected, translated and retold by the author, Yei Theodora Ozaki, who states: “…in telling them I have also found that they were still unknown to the vast majority, and this has encouraged me to write them...

Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is a dazzling comedy of manners that transforms courtship, mistaken identity, and social ritual into instruments of satire. Set within the polished surfaces of late Victorian drawing rooms and country estates, the play exposes the absurdity of moral seriousness, class pretension, and linguistic convention. Its epigrammatic style—brilliantly balanced, paradoxical, and musical—places it among the masterpieces of English dramatic wit, while its fa...

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years.

What if the wild jungle itself became your family? Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is one of the most beloved classics of all time, filled with thrilling adventures, unforgettable characters, and timeless lessons. At its heart is Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, who must navigate the world of man and beast while discovering his own identity. From the wisdom of Baloo the bear and the cunning of Bagheera the panther, to the menace of Shere Khan the tiger and the hypn...

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"Began to read 'Monte Cristo' at six one morning and never stopped till eleven at night." —William Makepeace Thackeray "Alexandre Dumas is more than French, he is European; he's more than European, he is universal." —Victor Hugo "No novelist since Dumas has been more irreverent of the conventions of well-made fiction or any more determined to tell stories without identifiable centers." —Terrence Rafferty Set against the turbulent years of the Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas's thrilling adv...

This edition of the American classic Little Women is a SmartAudioBook™ from SmartBookBinders. SmartAudioBooks feature seamlessly synchronized text and audio allowing the reader/listener to view the text, listen to the audio read by a narrator, or both simultaneously. When listening to the narrator the e-reader will highlight each phrase as it is being read. This feature can be used to assist students learning to read, people with reading disabilities, those learning English as a second lan...

'Suddenly out of the darkness, out of the night, there swooped something with a swish like an aeroplane. The whole group of us were covered for an instant by a canopy of leathery wings, and I had a momentary vision of a long, snake-like neck, a fierce, red, greedy eye, and a great snapping beak, filled, to my amazement, with little, gleaming teeth.'Desperate for adventure, journalist Ed Malone joins a scientific expedition to the South American jungle led by the larger than life fi...