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  • cover for The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    There was once a little girl who was very pretty and delicate, but in summer she was forced to run about with bare feet, she was so poor, and in winter wear very large wooden shoes, which made her lit ...

    Rating: 4.20

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    The Little Match Girl

    By Hans Christian Andersen

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    This touching fairy tale comes from one of the most beloved children's writers of all time, Hans Christian Andersen. On a freezing New Year's Eve a little girl has been sent out to sell matches on the ...

    Rating: 4.57

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    Snow-White and Rose-Red

    By Jacob and Wilhem Grimm

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    There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses. She had two children who ...

    Rating: 3.40

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    How the Camel got His Hump

    By Rudyard Kipling

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    hump. him he said 'Humph!' Just 'Humph!' and no more. Man. 'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Dog went away and told the Man. 'Humph!' said the Camel; and the Ox went away and told the Man. said 'Humph! ...

    Rating: 2.67

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    The Adventure of the Speckled Band

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    Rating: 4.29

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    The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1904 story, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, opens, Sherlock Holmes is relaxing comfortably in his study when a police inspector comes knocking on his door. Apparently ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Adventure of the Empty House

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1903 story The Adventure of the Empty House opens, the year is 1894. A shocking and bizarre murder has taken place, but Sherlock Holmes, the greatest detective in Britian ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Gloria Scott

    By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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    "I have some papers here," said my friend Sherlock Holmes, as we sat one winter's night on either side of the fire, "which I really think, Watson, that it would be worth your while to glance over. Th ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Locket

    By Kate Chopin

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    One night in autumn a few men were gathered about a fire on the slope of a hill. They belonged to a small detachment of Confederate forces and were awaiting orders to march. Their gray uniforms were w ...

    Rating: 4.33

  • cover for Ma'ame Pelagie

    Ma'ame Pelagie

    By Kate Chopin

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    When the war began, there stood on Cote Joyeuse an imposing mansion of red brick, shaped like the Pantheon. A grove of majestic live-oaks surrounded it. Thirty years later, only the thick walls were s ...

    Rating: 3.67

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    The Camel's Back

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The glazed eye of the tired reader resting for a second on the above title will presume it to be merely metaphorical. Stories about the cup and the lip and the bad penny and the new broom rarely have ...

    Rating: 3.67

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    The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

    By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    John T. Unger came from a family that had been well known in Hades--a small town on the Mississippi River--for several generations. John's father had held the amateur golf championship through many a ...

    Rating: 3.00

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    The Lady with the Dog

    By Anton Chekhov

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    Banker and bourgeois family man Dmitriy Gurov has a roving eye and is always on the lookout for his next conquest in Anton Chekhov’s 1899 story The Lady with the Dog. On holiday one year, he meets a ...

    Rating: 3.50

  • cover for The Gift of the Magi

    The Gift of the Magi

    By O. Henry

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    Rating: 4.88

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    Daisy Miller

    By Henry James

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    At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many ...

    Rating: 3.75

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    Three Short Stories

    By Gustave Flaubert

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    At night, in winter, when the snow-flakes fall slowly from heaven like great white tears, I raise my voice; its resonance thrills the cypress trees and makes them bud anew. I pause an instant in my sw ...

    Rating: 4.00

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    The Tales of Mother Goose

    By Charles Perrault

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    CINDERELLA, OR THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER. Once upon a time there was a gentleman who married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that ever was seen. She had two daughters of her ...

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    Craphound

    By Cory Doctorow

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    "Cory Doctorow straps on his miner's helmet and takes you deep into the caverns and underground rivers of Pop Culture, here filtered through SF-coloured glasses. Enjoy." ... - Neil Gaiman, author of A ...

    Rating: 4.25

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