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This compilation is a perfect gift to introduce children (and adults) to the world of Beatrix Potter. The collection is made up of timeless classics essential for any growing child to expand their imagination, as they are taken deep into the English countryside with all the lovable characters. This unabridged collection contains 20 of Beatrix Potter's most popular tales in one deluxe volume with all the original watercolor illustrations painted by Beatrix Potter herself. Follow the naughty Peter Rabbit, or the unlucky Jeremy Fisher, or the neat Mrs. Tittlemouse, and many, many more. The tales will delight children and adults alike. Read all 20 tales and decided which is your favorite?
Contents:
The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny 1904
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies 1909
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding 1908
The Tale of Mr. Tod 1912
The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle 1905
The Tale of Ginger & Pickles 1909
The Story of Miss. Moppet 1906
The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher 1906
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes 1911
The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan 1905
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck 1908
The Tale of Pigling Bland 1913
The Tale of Two Bad Mice 1904
The Tailor of Gloucester 1903
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse 1918
The Tale of Mrs. Tittlemouse 1910
The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin 1903
The Tale of Tom Kitten 1907
The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit 1906
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended with 540 original hand drawn and painted illustrations by Beatrix Potter.
Treasure Island : With 90 Illustrations and a free Audio File.
Treasure Island is a tale of pirates and villains; maps, treasure, a shipwreck, mutiny, murder, and mayhem, with some of the nastiest pirates to ever sail the seven seas, all leading to a thrilling climax in perhaps one of the best adventure stories’s ever written.
*****
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer’s Comrade: With 195 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom United States
Huckleberry Finn is the main character, and through his eyes, the reader sees and judges the South, its faults, and its redeeming qualities. Huck’s companion Jim, a runaway slave, provides friendship and protection while the two journey along the Mississippi
The work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism and its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River . Set in a Southern antebellum society. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer.
Popular with readers, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has also been the continued object of study by literary critics since its publication. It was criticized upon release because of its coarse language and became even more controversial in the 20th century because of its perceived use of racial stereotypes and because of its frequent use of the racial slur “nigger,” despite strong arguments that the protagonist and the tenor of the book are anti-racist.
“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. It’s the best book we’ve had.” – Ernest Hemingway.
This book is unabridged (unedited) and the story appears as it was first published in 1884.
*****
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: With 181 Illustrations and a Free Audio File.
Drenched with Mark Twain’s iconic wit and wisdom, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author’s work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal
Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to tell a soul about what they have seen and so begins their journey into adulthood as Tom wrestles with his own morality, guilt, and anxiety.
A ‘coming of age’ tale, it is through Tom’s adventures and relationships with others that he becomes more responsible and more aware of his own inner conflict. Through the central characters of Tom and Huck, Twain satirizes the moral rigidity of society and adult hypocrisy, whilst at the same time giving a nostalgic portrayal of a young boy’s journey into adulthood.
This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1876.
*****
“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest-Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!”
A voyage for buried treasure spells trouble for young cabin boy, Jim Hawkins when he finds a packet in Captain Flint’s sea chest; he could not know that the map inside it would lead him to unimaginable wealth. Shipping as a cabin boy on the Hispaniola, he sails with Squire Trelawney, Captain Smollett, Dr. Livesey, the sinister Long John Silver and a frightening crew to Treasure Island.
This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1883.
*****
29 Indian Fairy Tales: With 53 Illustrations and 29 Free Online Audio Files.
Indian Fairy Tales is written by folklorist Joseph Jacobs and was first published in 1892. This e-book features twenty-nine stories taken from popular South Asian oral history. The stories are complemented by the original fifty-three full color and black-and-white illustrations, which follow the storyline.
Some scholars have stated that India is the original home of the fairy tale and that all European fairy tales have been carried across by crusaders, Gipsies, Mongol missionaries, traders, Jews, and travelers. India is on one branch of the legendary Silk and Spice Routes, over which Europeans and Asians have been traveling for thousands of years. Many common fairy stories of Europe are derived from Indian tales. Comic tales and jingles can be traced without much difficulty back to India. Jacobs has selected the best from the Baluchi folk-tales, the Jatakas, the Bidpai, the Tales of the Sun, and the folk-tales of Kashmir.
Tales included:
1. The Lion and the Crane
2. How the Raja's Son won the Princess Labam
3. The Lambikin
4. Punchkin
5. The Broken Pot
6. The Magic Fiddle
7. The Cruel Crane Outwitted
8. Loving Laili
9. The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal
10. The Soothsayers Son
11. Harisarman
12. The Charmed Ring
13. The Talkative Tortoise
14. A Lac of Rupees for a Piece of Advice
15. The Gold-Giving Serpent
16. The Son of Seven Queens
17. A Lesson for Kings
18. Pride Goes Before a Fall
19. Raja Rasalu
20. The Ass in the Lion's Skin
21. The Farmer and the Money-Lender
22. The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
23. The Prince and the Fakir
24. Why the Fish Laughed
25. The Demon with the Matted Hair
26. The Ivory City and its Fairy Princess
27. Sun, Moon, and Wind go out to Dinner
28. How the Wicked Sons were Duped
29. The Pigeon and the Crow
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended with fifty-three original hand-drawn illustrations.
*****
26 Celtic Fairy Tales: With 57 Illustrations and 26 Free Online Audio Files.
Celtic Fairy Tales is for the young and old alike. There are twenty-six captivating tales filled with magic, charm, adventure, and humour. The stories were collected from Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland over a hundred years ago by folklorist Joseph Jacobs, and assembled into this unique anthology. But be warned, not every story has a happy ending. This copy also has fifty-seven original illustrations by John D. Batten that follow the storyline.
Tales included:
1. Connla and the Fairy Maiden
2. Guleesh
3. The Field of Boliauns
4. The Horned Women
5. Conall Yellowclaw
6. Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'Neary
7. The Shepherd of Myddvai
8. The Sprightly Tailor
9. The Story of Deirdre
10. Munachar and Manachar
11. Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
12. King O'Toole and his Goose
13. The Wooing of Olwen
14. Jack and his Comrades
15. The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
16. The Story-Teller at Fault
17. The Sea-Maiden
18. A Legend of Knockmany
19. Fair, Brown and Trembling
20. Jack and his Master
21. Beth Gellert
22. The Tale of Ivan
23. Andrew Coffey
24. The Battle of the Birds
25.Brewery of Eggshells
26. The Lad with the Goat-Skin
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended with fifty-seven original hand-drawn illustrations by John D. Batten.
*****
Around the World in 80 Days: With 65 Illustrations and a Free Audio File.
Phileas Fogg is a perfectionist in every aspect of his life. He is a mathematically exact person who has never hurried anything and will never take two steps when it can be accomplished in one. Fogg is a rich English gentleman and bachelor living in solitude at Number 7 Savile Row, Burlington Gardens, London in 1872. Despite his wealth, which is roughly £3,000,000 in today’s money, he lives a modest life. Then everything changes when he makes a wager in the Reform Club, stating he can travel around the world within only 80 days betting the equivalent of £1,500,000.
Little does he realize what he has just let himself in for? With his faithful French servant, Passepartout, he embarks upon an epic journey travelling across four continents by trains, steamships, a fighting elephant, a land-ship, and many other unique means of transportation while getting attacked by Indians, and disrupting sacrificial rituals, surviving collapsing bridges, hungry wolves, and fistfights, and numerous other mishaps and surprises along the way.
He is also being followed by Detective Fix; a man convinced Fogg is a cunning thief who stole from the Bank of England, and is now fleeing the country with the money.
Fogg leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.
Fogg's character starts off stiff-upper-lipped and precise; however, as the novel goes on the very icy man begins to thaw. He begins to place the importance of friendship and love above everything else. In the end, he is willing to risk losing the bet in order to personally help a friend, and is he starting to fall in love?
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended, along with 56 original illustrations. First published in 1873.
*****
Gulliver's Travels: with 72 Illustrations and Photos. Plus, a Free Online Audio File.
Gulliver's Travels is a novel that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travelers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is widely considered Swift's magnum opus and is his most celebrated work, as well as one of the indisputable classics of English literature.
Published seven years after Daniel Defoe's wildly successful Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels may be read as a systematic rebuttal of Defoe's optimistic account of human capability.
It's a satirical view of the state of European government, and of petty differences between religions.
It can be viewed as an inquiry into whether men are inherently corrupt or whether they become corrupted.
A restatement of the older "ancients versus moderns" controversy.
Although it was by no means intended for them, the book was soon appropriated by the children, who have ever since continued to regard it as one of the most delightful of their storybooks.
This book is unabridged and appears as it was first intended. First published in 1726.
*****
Oliver Twist: With 36 Illustrations and a Free Audio Link.
“Please sir, can I have some more?”
In this gripping tale of kidnapping, shooting’s and murder, Charles Dickens shows the threats to a vulnerable boy’s existence and asks the eternal question: which is more powerful, good or evil?
The story follows the orphan Oliver Twist. He starts his life in a workhouse and is then sold into an apprenticeship with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he walks the dark and dangerous streets of the Victorian capital. He meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by the elderly criminal Fagin. Oliver enters a world of people so poor and desperate that they will take any risk and know no mercy. He goes on a terrifying journey where he is pursued by the menacing criminal underworld. Who can Oliver trust? Are his friends strong enough to resist the determined plotting of desperate villains?
This book is unabridged and the story appears as it was first published in 1837.
*****
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