Once upon a time there was a little fat comfortable grey squirrel, called Timmy Tiptoes. He had a nest thatched with leaves in the top of a tall tree; and he had a little squirrel...

There are thieves and there are thieves. And I have happened to come across an honest thief. But how can a thief be honest? One of Dostoyevskiy's short masterpieces tells a story...

In the Emerald City of Oz we continue following adventures of Dorothy Gale and her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em who are now coming to live in Oz permanently. While they are toured...

William Legrand becomes obsessed with searching for treasure after being bitten by a bug appearing to be made of pure gold. He notifies his closest friend, the narrator, telling...

Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School. The book was inspired by the death of Alcott's brother-in-law, which reveals itself in one of...

Kubla Khan is a poem composed one night after Samuel Taylor Coleridge experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol...

Set in fictional close-knit community of Hayslope, the novel revolves around a love rectangle between beautiful but self-absorbed Hetty Sorrel, Captain Arthur Donnithorne, the...

Villette is an 1853 novel written by English author Charlotte Brontë. After an unspecified family disaster, the protagonist Lucy Snowe travels from her native England to the...

It must have happened on Christmas Eve in some great town in a time of terrible frost. I have a vision of a boy, a little boy, six years old or even younger. This boy woke up that...

His Masterpiece is a fictional account of Zola's friendship with Paul Cezanne and a fairly accurate portrayal of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century. The story...