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Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, and literary critic. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. Lang gave many of the tales their first appearance in English.  Andrew Lang's Fairy Books — are a series of twelve collections of fairy tales. Each volume is distinguished by...

Andrew Lang was a Scottish prolific author, mostly known as a collector of folk and fairy tales.  “The White Wolf” is a short story, entered in “The Grey Fairy Book” collection. The tale is about the king, who has three beautiful daughters, but the youngest is the fairest of the three....

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. This is the short fairy tale of a prince who leaves his father’s castle to go on an adventure trying to become immortal. He finds...

The fairytale “Jack and the Beanstalk” tells the story of a boy Jack who lives in a very poor family. The only way of getting food and money is their cow – Milky-white. But one day they have no money and Jack has to go to the market and sell Milky-white “to start shop, or something”. There...

Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer, poet and dramatist. Redundancy is the characteristic that describes his life and creations. He had no limits in his jokes, however if he tried to be serious, he turned out to be more didactic and deeper than even the most sublime preacher. However, this manner hides...

Oscar Wild was an Irish writer, poet and dramatist. Redundancy is the characteristic that describes his life and creations. He had no limits, not only in his jokes, but even in his tries to be serious. The story “The Nightingale and the Rose” tells us about young man’s clean and ardent love...

Manly Palmer Hall (1901 – 1990) was a Canadian author which became sufficiently known and respected as a lecture and interpreter of the ancient writings. This manuscript is one of the basic works in hermetism and alchemy. The manuscript contains the description of 26 alchemic leaves, as...

Gottfried Keller war ein Schweizer Dichter und Politiker. Kellers Novelle "Kleider machen Leute" erschien erstmals 1874 unter dem Titel "Die Leute von Seldwyla" in Stuttgart. Sie erzählt die Geschichte des arbeitslosen Schneidergesellen Wenzel Strapinski, der aufgrund eines...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology, best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. “The Magic Book” is a brief story by Andrew Lang which was included in “The Orange Fairy Book”. The storyline focuses on...

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in British India. He was an English story writer, he wrote many stories, tales and poems for children. Once upon a time in far Africa was an elephant, who had no trunk. He had only ugly nose which looked like boot. This elephant was curious and asked many questions....

Joseph Rudyard Kipling. He was an English story writer, he wrote many stories, tales and poems for children. In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature that made him the first English writer and the youngest recipient who got the prize. A long time ago in a far land was the Leopard who...

Robinson Crusoe is a well-known novel written by Daniel Defoe in 1719. It was published under a very long title: “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the...

The author created an imaginary country called Atlantis to tell some truths about his own. The Atlantis was an image of the Great Britain at that time. In this book the author described the problems of the governmental policy, the problems of its structure and some other aspects. The scholarly introduction...

Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895) is a French writer and dramatist, the son of Alexandre Dumas, père. His father was also a famous novelist and mother was a dressmaker. Dumas got a good education and started writing at early age. He is well-known mostly for the novel "The Lady of the Camellias"...