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Kinder- und Hausmärchen
by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.
Irish fairy and folk tales
by William Butler Yeats
Growing up in the 1950s in Northern Ireland, I had any number of opportunities to experience the fairy faith.
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
on February the 1st, 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1° S. and longitu...
The Sea Fairies
by L. Frank Baum
"Nobody," said Cap'n Bill solemnly, "ever sawr a mermaid an' lived to tell the tale."
Indian Fairy Tales
by Joseph Jacobs, John D Batten
THE Bodhissatta was at one time born in the region of Himavanta as a white crane ; now Brahmadatta was at that time reig...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
The Return of the King
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak.
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Há bastante tempo, o autor tem a opinião de que muitos dos mitos clássicos poderiam se tornar uma excelente leitura para...
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...
Xi you ji
by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard
Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.