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«Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832 – 1899) was a prolific American author of the 19-th century. His writings were characterized by the "rags-to-riches" narrative, which had a formative effect on America during the Gilded Age. Alger best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished...

Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 – 1923) was a famous American educator and author well known for children's stories. The highest rank of her literary experience became most notable classic children's novel named “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm” which brought her the world recognition and popularity. “The...

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Maupassant was a protégé of Flaubert and his stories are characterized by economy of style and efficient, effortless...

Oscar Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish author, playwright and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he started to consider one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.  Oscar Wilde created an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into...

In this story Oscar Wilde used no humans as a characters but inanimate objects, fireworks. Fireworks that are waiting in a castle to be set off after a wedding night. On very self-concerned rocket is to be saved as the finale and speaks the most through the story. He speaks quite highly of himself...

Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1650-1705) was a French writer, and she was considered the one who developed the genre of a classical French fairy-tale. Her most popular fairy-tales were: 'The Story Of Pretty Goldilocks', 'The Blue Bird' and 'The Imp Prince'. Once upon a time there lived a king with his...

Once upon a time there was a poor man. One day he caught a crane and crane pleased to let him free. The man let the crane go and the bird gave him a magic sack. 'Two out of a sack!' was a command to this magic thing: two young men get out from the sack and started to cook many delicious dishes and...

Andrew Lang was a British literary critic, poet, novelist, translator and historian. "The Two Frogs" is an gripping fairy tale about two frogs. The story begins by portraying a scene on a bright spring morning involving two frogs which do not know each other. One of whom makes his home in...

Andrew Lang (1844 – 1912) was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. 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. Lang was also a prolific author of works both...

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.  The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnföder is an Icelandic fairy tale, included by Andrew Lang in The Crimson...

One day the captain of the ship which called “Fearless” came on to the wharf. He dodged round an empty van, lurked behind an empty barrel, flitted from that to a post, and finally from the interior of a steam crane peeped melodramatically on to the deck of his craft. To the ordinary man who hadn’t...

‘The Greatest Manace of The South’ is a work by William J. Edwards what was published as a a part of ‘The Upward Path’ collection book. The work is dedicated to the problem that Edwards considered the most important for the South - the loss of the fertility of the soil. According to...

The Culture of Western Chukotka situated in the Chukchi Peninsula, the shores of the Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within the Russian Federation for lots of people stays even in the present time the unknown and chiefly unreachable phenomenon but in the beginning of 20th century...

Greek ancient myths are full of allegory and wisdom, a triumph of the truth above lies, tricks over insidiousness, savvy and patience. Heroes of Ancient Greek fairy tales find adventures that will not leave anyone indifferent. When Perseus returned to his home, he saw that his mother was crying in...