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Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the first american writers who obtained world-wide recognition. Hawthorne wrote short-stories, stories for children and novels. The 'Hollow Of The Three Hills' is a short story first published in the collection book 'Twice Told Stories' in 1837. The main character of...

Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the first american writers who obtained world-wide recognition. Hawthorne wrote short-stories, stories for children and novels. The central character of this short story is William Phips, the first governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. As a man of poor origin...

Thomas Crane was an American scholar and writer, mostly known as a collector and publisher of folk-tales and legends. “The King of Love” is an Italian fairy tale, entered in the “Italian Popular Tales” collection. The story is about one man who makes his living gathering wild herbs. One day...

  E.D.E.N Southworth (1819-1899) was an American novelist whose literary legacy counted up to more than sixty novels. She began writing stories in order to support herself and her children financially. She is best known for her novel 'The Hidden Hand' that tells us about a girl who behaves...

Horatio Alger books... These are «rags-to-riches» stories, its’ heroes rise from poverty to wealth, they are patient, smart and determined to their white collar work. They know that hard work is the only key to success. However, it’s not all about hardworking. Only random acts of courage...

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. Lang was also a prolific author of fiction works; he wrote his own fairy tales such as Prince Prigio (1889) and Prince Ricardo...

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...

Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish Golden Age playwright who — from the beginning of his theatrical career in the 1620s to his death in 1681 — wrote about 120 comedias and about 80 autos sacramentales. «Life is a Dream» is a work many hold to be the supreme example of...

William Buckland was an English theologian, geologist and paleontologist. Early in his career, he believed that he had found geologic evidence of the biblical flood. Later he became convinced that the glaciation theory.  This book is about production of raw materials. The author gave a full and...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 – 1930) was a Scottish author, playwright and physician. He is mostly known for his fictional stories of adventures and investigations of Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson, a private detective from London and his companion. Holmes stories are considered to be...

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German writers, academics, linguists and researches living in the XVIII century. Their passion was to collect folklore tales and write fairytales on the basis of these stories. Their first book of fairytales Children’s and Household Tales was published in 1812. Brothers...

This is a story of one king, whose wife ceased to love him and enchanted him after he has mortally wounded her favorite slave who was her lover. Earlier the kingdom consisted of the isles, but the queen turned it to four small mountains and all the people in the kingdom to fishes. The queen made her...

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...

Once upon a time there lived a rich man who had three sons. The eldest son travelled around the world and three years passed before he met his family. He returned with beautiful clothes, good manners and his father arranged great celebration. His second son wanted to travel too. He also returned with...