"The Tales of Mother Goose" is a collection of fairy tales written by Charles Perrault, a French author, and edited by M. V. O'Shea. The book features classic stories that have become enduring favorites in children's literature.Charles Perrault originally published the tales in 1697 under the title "Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralités," or "Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals." These tales include iconic stories such as "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red ...

How do we transform American Culture through our religious convictions?Discover here the compelling stories of thirteen pioneers for social justice who engaged in peaceful protest and gave voice to the marginalized, working courageously out of their religious convictions to transform American culture. Their prophetic witness still speaks today.Comprising a variety of voices—Catholic and Protestant, gay and straight, men and women of different racia...

All aboard the night train to terror…Trick-or-treating takes a sinister turn when a restless spirit seeks revenge on friends who abandoned him. A man's worst memories are turned against him in a cruel dystopian nightmare. And a specialist in deadly wildlife encounters an unusual predator with an appetite for human flesh…The Scare Street train is leaving the station with a new collection of skin-crawling horror. Thirteen tales of nightmares and dark...

This 2007 Audie Award finalist features more than three hours of some of the greatest shorts stories of all time.James Thurber's "The Night the Ghost Got In"performed by Isaiah ShefferComic Mayhem is unleashed when a family hears a ghost in the night... and calls in the police.Edith Wharton's "Roman Fever"performed by Maria TucciTwo women reflect on romance and intrigue, long ago in Rome.Jack London's "Make Westing"perfor...

He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.ContentsThe Yellow Fairy Book (1894)The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)The Brown Fairy Book (1904)The Green Fairy Book (1906)The Orange Fairy Book (1906)The Arabian Nights (1898)The Violet Fairy Book (1901)The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)The ...

This book, newly updated, contains the complete Andersen’s 168 fairy tales and stories in the chronological order of their original publication.Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales, a literary genre he so mastered that he himself has become as mythical as the tales he wrote. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stori...

This book contains several HTML tables of contents.The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.Here you will find the complete Oz collection in the chronological order of their original publication.- The Wo...

The Chronicles of Narnia gathers seven interlinked fantasies—beginning with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and extending across Narnia's creation, crises, and final revelation—into a single mythic sequence. Written in lucid, deceptively simple prose, the books combine fairy tale, medieval romance, classical myth, and Christian allegory without reducing themselves to doctrine. Lewis's narrative style is brisk, humane, and ceremonially grand when required, placing children at the thres...

Don't waste money on individual texts by a classic author. Get (nearly) all in 1, 2 or (at most) 3 FREE-FOREVER volumes. Save space in your ebook shelves.The works of Jane Austen as originally published but converted for easy reading by cross-platform ebook / ePUB standards. Organized alphabetically and by type of text for quicker navigation; a master table of contents leads you to specific tables of contents for each included work. This volume includes:

Les Misérables (1862) is a novel by French author Victor Hugo, and among the best-known novels of the 19th century. It follows the lives and interactions of several French characters over a twenty year period in the early 19th century that starts in the year of Napoleon's final defeat. Principally focusing on the struggles of the protagonist—ex-convict Jean Valjean—who seeks to redeem himself, the novel also examines the impact of Valjean's actions for the sake of social commentary. It exa...