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The Adventures of Grandfather Frog is a story about a frog who goes on various adventures. The story uses complex language to create a whimsical and imaginative world. The author's use of descriptive language allows the reader to experience the different settings and characters in the story.
This early work by H. G. Wells was originally published in 1894. "In the Avu Observatory" is a short story of a man working in an observatory in Borneo who gets attacked by a strange bat-like creature.Ver libro
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Cap'n Bill and Trot journey to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow, the former ruler of Oz, overthrow the villainous King Krewl of Jinxland. This was allegedly L. Frank Baum's personal favourite Oz book.Ver libro
"He was a man who feared neither God nor Devil, but he feared a life without gold even more." Captain Walshawe is a man of legendary cruelty and even greater debt. Living in the decaying Wauling Manor, he views his pious and suffering wife not as a companion, but as a financial obstacle. When she dies, the Captain's avarice leads him to commit a chilling act of spiritual sacrilege involving a "soul candle"—a ritual intended to secure her fortune for himself, regardless of the cost to her eternal rest. But as the shadows lengthen in the drafty halls of Wauling, the Captain discovers that some bargains cannot be undone, and the spirit he thought he had extinguished is far from gone. The Horror of Character: Unlike many Gothic tales that rely on external monsters, the primary horror here is Captain Walshawe himself. Le Fanu paints a portrait of a man so consumed by selfishness that he becomes more frightening than the specters that haunt him. His "wickedness" is a tangible force that stains the very walls of his home. The Symbolic "Soul-Candle": Le Fanu utilizes a unique and terrifying supernatural device in this story—the candle that represents the life or soul of the deceased. This element introduces a tactile, ticking-clock tension to the haunting, as the Captain's fate becomes literally tied to a flickering flame in the dark. A Masterclass in the Uncanny: The haunting of Wauling is subtle and psychological. It manifests in the sound of a silk dress brushing against a door, the smell of a guttering candle, and the oppressive feeling of a presence that refuses to leave. It is Le Fanu at his most focused, proving that the most terrifying ghosts are those created by our own transgressions. The Inevitability of Justice: As with much of Le Fanu's work, the story serves as a grim reminder that one cannot cheat the afterlife. The Captain's attempt to manipulate the spiritual world for material gain results in a haunting that is both a punishment and a mirror of his own moral vacuum. Face the darkness of Wauling. Purchase this classic of psychological horror today.Ver libro
The Adventure of the Devil's Foot is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. It is one of eight stories in the cycle collected as His Last Bow.Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" ninth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.Holmes and Dr. Watson find themselves at Poldhu in Cornwall one spring for the former's health, but the holiday ends with a bizarre event. Mr. Mortimer Tregennis, a local gentleman, and Mr. Roundhay, the local vicar, come to Holmes to report that Tregennis's two brothers have gone insane, and his sister has died. Tregennis had gone to visit them in their village ('Tredannick Wollas'), played whist with them, and then left. When he came back in the morning, he found them still sitting in their places at the table, the brothers, George and Owen, laughing and singing, and the sister, Brenda, dead. The housekeeper had discovered them in this state, and fainted. The vicar has not been to see them yet. Tregennis says that he remembers one brother looking through the window, and then he himself turned to see some "movement" outside. He declares that the horrific event is the work of the devil. Mortimer Tregennis was once estranged from his siblings by the matter of dividing the proceeds from the sale of the family business, but he insists that all was forgiven, although he still lives apart from them. The doctor who was summoned, reckoned that she had been dead for six hours. He also collapsed into a chair for a while after arriving...Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.
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Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN: The fragments of which this lecture is composed are taken entirely from the original manuscripts which have but recently been discovered. It is not certain that they all belong to the same lecture, nor that all were written at the same period. Some portions were written in Philadelphia in 1882.Ver libro
To the River––: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow Of crystal, wandering water, Thou art an emblem of the glow Of beauty—the unhidden heart— The playful maziness of art In old Alberto’s daughter;Ver libro
