Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/0oisZU --------- The novelette is based on the posthumous pursuit of Shelley's papers from his former very close friend (and possibly lover), Claire Clairmont. In The Aspern Papers an unnamed editor of the papers of deceased poet Jeffrey Aspern weasels himself into the home of Aspern's former mistress and subject of many of his poems, seeking to obtain from her papers (the nature of which is not given but presumably means letters, diaries, unpublished poems, or the like) which she has and has for years...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/0oisZU --------- The novelette is based on the posthumous pursuit of Sh...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Hans Christian Anderson (known as H. C. Anderson in Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia) (1805 - 1875) was a Danish author of short fiction, travelogues, and novels, but he is best known as the author of fairy tales. This book is a very good read and great for bedtime reading. Chapters from the Book: THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES THE SWINEHERD THE REAL PRINCESS THE SHOES OF FORTUNE THE FIR TREE THE SNOW QUEEN THE LEAP-FROG THE ELDERBUSH...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Hans Christian Anderson (known as H. C. Anderso...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- -The Arabian Nights, - some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the East. The people of Asia, Arabia, and Persia told them in their own way, not for children, but for grown-up people. There were no novels then, nor any printed books, of course; but there were people whose profession it was to amuse men and women by telling tales. Stories from the Book: Preface The Arabian Nights The Story of the Merchant and the Genius...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- -The Arabian Nights, - some of which, but not n...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling. Considered a classic of children's literature, the book is among Kipling's best-known works. Kipling began working on the book by telling the first three chapters as bedtime stories to his daughter Josephine. These had to be told "just so" (exactly in the words she was used to) or she would complain. The stories describe how one animal or another acquired its most...
Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- Just So Stories for Little Children is a 1902 c...