"The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" is as the title
would suggest a collection of whimiscal tales by Oscar Wilde. This
collections includes the following short stories: The Happy Prince, The
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Set in Dunnet Landing, Maine in a summer of the late 1800s, "The Country of the Pointed Firs", is the story of a female writer seeking isolation and inspiration for her writing in a small coastal N...więcej »
One of the world's most famous writers, Leo Tolstoy, is probably best known for his epic romantic works "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace". In addition to being the author of some of the greate...więcej »
O. Henry, the pen name of William Sydney Porter, is one of the most famous short story writers of all time, whose stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twis...więcej »
First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" is widely hailed as one of the most important American novels of the twentieth-century. Fitzgerald's third novel and his most si...więcej »
First published serially between 1893 and 1894, "The Jungle Book" is Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of jungle tales in which we first meet Mowgli, a child lost in the jungles of India and ...więcej »
"The Light Princess" is George MacDonald's 1864 fairy tale. It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of the King, who at her christening is cursed to have no gravity by the uninvited Princess ...więcej »
Richard Connell was well-known for his masterful short stories and achieved great professional success, with his work often appearing in "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's" magazines. Hi...więcej »
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is Oscar Wilde's classic tale of the moral decline of its title character, Dorian Gray. When Dorian has his portrait painted by Basil Hallward and wishes that he would ...więcej »
“The Prose Edda”, or “Younger Edda”, is a classic collection of Norse myths of the Icelandic people believed to have been written or compiled by Icelandic scholar and his...więcej »
One of the most legendary of the Icelandic sagas, 'The Saga of the Volsungs' is the 13th century work of unknown authorship which relates the origin and decline of the Volsung clan. The story un...więcej »
In the late 18th century, France was in the throes of the French Revolution. Of particular tumult during this conflict were the years known as the “Reign of Terror”, a time in which ...więcej »
Sherwood Anderson’s most famous work, “Winesburg, Ohio” is a cycle of short stories set in the fictional town of Winesburg, loosely based on the author’s own home town of...więcej »