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Although the author of this play is now famous for writing the most cliché opening line in literature – “It was a dark and stormy night…” (from his 1830 novel, "Paul Clifford" ), this melodrama by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton was at one time one of the most popular dramas of its day....

In Greek mythology, Helen was the most beautiful woman from the age of the heroes. She was the wife of Menelaus, king of Sparta (one of several Greek kingdoms). After Helen ran away with Paris, prince of Troy, the Greek armies fought a ten year long war against Troy to win her...

Dunsany's first novel, begun during WWI. It is set in Spain's Golden Age, and features the adventures of Don Rodrigues as he sets out to seek his fortune after the death of his father. There is no Dulcinea but there is a Serafina, and although no windmills, there is a forest like...

Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. Peveril is a Cavalier, in love with a Roundhead's daughter, but is accused of involvement with the Popish Plot. - Summary by Deon Gines...

Agnes Repplier was a popular and highly regarded essayist of the late 19th and early 20th century, who was also well known on the lecture circuit. Her writings are witty, erudite, and engaging. The eight essays in this collection include an homage to her cat Aggripina and reflec...

The Pothunters was popular British humorist P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse's first published book. It tells the first of what would become a number of tales set in a fictitious English public school, and already shows the author's masterful, gentle satirical humor, lovingly s...

In this chapter Pinocchio meets a talking cricket (Il Grillo Parlante) who is NOT called Jiminy - well perhaps Walt Disney knew something we don't. We see that Pinocchio has a terrible temper.Read by Natasha. Illustrated by Chiara Civati.

Richard's readings of Sherlock Holmes have proved super-popular in the past, so now we are giving you an entire book in fifteen chapters. The Hound of the Baskervilles By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is Holmes and Watson's most memorable adventure, with haunting image...

Kipling’s ‘Just So story from when the world was very new tells how the grumpy, idle camel turned his ‘humph’ into a ‘hump.’ The moral of the story is that not having enough to do makes people (and animals) grumpy.As we mention in the introduction, a few of the wonderf...

The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both parents died along the way. The orphans made it to the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla, Washington, but their lives were still in jeopardy....