Phoenix D Or: 1049 books

A little brother and sister were once playing by a well...

Twelve servants who had done nothing all the day would not exert themselves at night either, but laid themselves on the grass and boasted of their idleness... 

There was once a rich old man who had two sons, and as his wife was dead, the elder lived with him, and helped him to look after his property. For a long time all went well; the young man got up very early in the morning, and worked hard all day, and at the end of every week his father...

Once long ago, it was foretold that a king's son would be killed by a stag at the age of sixteen. When the prince was sixteen, he went hunting and chased a stag; a great man, a king, caught him and carried him off. The king set him to watch his three daughters; one each night...

There was once upon a time a poor woman who had one little daughter called 'Parsley.' She was so called because she liked eating parsley better than any other food, indeed she would hardly eat anything else. Her poor mother hadn't enough money always to be buying parsley for her, but the child was so beautiful that she could refuse her nothing...

A breezy tale showing the crookedness of the methods of prize-ring managers specially in fleecing the prize-ring public in betting. The hero is a successful young giant who has been trained by his father in the mountains, and who thinks the game is played square until enlightened by a young woman reporter. Then follows a whirlwind wooing, exposing of the frauds and retirement...

Once upon a time there was a king who had an only son. When the lad was about eighteen years old his father had to go to fight in a war against a neighbouring country, and the king led his troops in person. He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return...

Far way, in a very hot country, there once lived a man and woman who had two children, a son named Koane and a daughter called Thakane. Early in the morning and late in the evenings the parents worked hard in the fields, resting, when the sun was high, under the shade of some tree....

In the family castle , the young Berthe reads the his grandmother newspaper. Political pages do not excite , she wants to hear about love. Berthe reads the story of a woman who threw vitriol in the figure of her husband's mistress , who was paid to the applause of the crowd. Then, it is a mature...

As every year , Gaston will do the kings in Chantal and , surprise, he's the king, who has to choose a queen. This will be Miss Pearl ...  

Jean Marin , son of a provincial bailiff had gone to Paris to study law in the Latin Quarter . He had become friends with students paid policy. Later , having had no success as a lawyer he renewed acquaintance with one of his student friends had meanwhile become MP. It serves as his handyman and...

The Samoris Countess arrived in Paris a few years there is a courtesan who collects men , relationships do not last more than six weeks . Yveline , his daughter, is a young beautiful and innocent girl . She surprises one day the conversation of two men about his mother that he deals with luxury prostitute .  

The old baron Ravots is now paralyzed for six years and can not hunt . In good weather , we took him on a chair on the porch with a servant to load the rifles and another to let go pigeons . So he spends his days . When comes the season of the hunt, all hunters in the area are invited to...

The two friends were getting near the end of their dinner. Through the cafe windows they could see the Boulevard, crowded with people. They could feel the gentle breezes which are wafted over Paris on warm summer evenings and make you feel like going out somewhere, you care not where, under the trees, and make you dream of moonlit rivers, of fireflies and of larks.