"Peter Pan" ("Peter and Wendy") is a fairy tale story by James Barry, the main character of which is a runaway boy who did not want to become an adult. The story was published in 1911 and has since become a worldwide children's classic. "Peter Pan" constantly surprises the unprepared reader. Despite the childish beginning, the story reflects the sad events of real life that haunted Barry himself. The story's sarcastic and caustic style and its complex themesâdeath, the power of the imagi...

Come along for 25 Mermaid's adventures, collected together in one eBook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate!In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide, including the Near East, Europe, Asia, and Africa.Mermaids have been a popular subject of art and literature in recent centuries, such as in Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale "The Lit...

When a body is found in the aisles of Micklegate Books, York bookshop owner Martin Pinder finds himself in a murder mystery with its roots set decades earlier. With the help of his bookshop assistant Roxy Robinson and the shop's cat Goodwill, Martin must unmask the killer, otherwise he won't have a business to run!Murder at Micklegate Books is a bookshop murder mystery set in the centre of the historic city of York. It's literally murder-by-the-boo...

While some travellers look for trouble others unwittingly find themselves in such deep water they are unable to cope. Fortunately for both groups there are men and women worldwide whose job it is to extend a friendly hand. When young James Shea decided to write a book about his father's assistance work as EU representative on the paradisiacal tropical island of Jasmine he discovered that there is a world of crime and corruption very close to home. Pedro Rey, alias &quote;the snake&quote;, ...

Pierre Loti, a young French sailor, arrives in Salonika to witness the hangings of several Turks at the harbourside. Behind the bars of a window by the mosque, he spies a young Turkish woman. He begins a love affair with this woman who he calls Aziyadé but whose real name was Hatijay. The romance continued in Constantinople that winter and ended when Loti got his orders to sail in March 1877.Jonathan is an English language teacher in Istanbul in the late 1980s. When he discovers hi...

This is the original novelization of Peter Pan by the character creator himself, J.M Barrie!The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up was a play that received instant success in English theatres which George Bernard Shaw described as "ostensibly a holiday entertainment for children but really a play for grown-up people," suggesting deeper social metaphors in the plot. It has since been adapted into many pantomimes, musicals, motion pictures and animations.The play introduced the audienc...

This classic fantasy relates the life of Peter Pan, a boy who ran away to Never-Never-Land to be a child forever. In search of his missing shadow, Peter finds Wendy, Michael, and John Darling, three children he brings back with him to Never-Never-Land for adventures with his enemy, the pirate Captain Hook. Flight enabled by the fairy Tinker Bell's pixie dust and encounters with Indians enliven the tale. Peter and the children must eventually choose between remaining with each other and ret...

J. M. Barrie's most famous work,tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous yet innocent little boy who can fly, and has many adventures on the island of Neverland that is inhabited by mermaids, fairies, Native Americans and pirates. Peter has many stories involving Wendy Darling and her two brothers, his fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook.

A Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventure...

"Catriona" (also known as David Balfour) is a novel written in 1893 by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel "Kidnapped".This novel is an ode to love, justice and patriotism. Once again tells the story of David Balfour, a Scottish boy back in possession of its assets. The opera is set in Edinburgh in 1751, when the city was split in two between the Jacobites and the supporters of King George II. David, in this tense climate, help two of his friends to flee from Scotland b...

"Christmas Classics" is proud to present you a carefully selected range of fiction and prose for the most beautiful time of the year. You can spot them easily by the red book cover and the golden bells in the middle. A beautiful story full of myth and pathos.