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  Hare and tortoise

  PIERRE COALFLEET

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  HARE AND TORTOISE/RABBIT AND THE TORTOISE OLD FAIRY TALES STORIES AND PANCHTANTRA STORIES IN ENGLISHOne day, a tortoise challenges a boastful Hare to a race. But how in the world could a slow-moving tortoise win a race against the quick-footed Hare? Read the classic tale of the Hare and the tortoise in this wonderfully illustrated storybook to find out. Adapted especially for little readers, this book is the perfect read-aloud story with a moral for kids.This is a series which combines fairy tales, Aesop's fables, Classics and also folktales. Designed especially for pleasure reading at bedtime, these stories help develop a childs reading habit.

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  The Mysterious Affair at Styles

  Agatha Christie

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  Step into the grand yet treacherous halls of Styles Court, where secrets lurk behind every locked door. In The Mysterious Affair at Styles—Agatha Christie's dazzling debut novel—the sudden death of wealthy matriarch Mrs. Inglethorp sends shockwaves through a household simmering with tension. Captain Arthur Hastings, home from the front lines of World War I, is drawn into the mystery, quickly realizing that everyone at Styles has something to hide. Enter Hercule Poirot, the brilliant Belgian detective, whose keen observations and masterful deductions will untangle a web of jealousy, greed, and betrayal. Narrated by Mike Polischuk, this timeless whodunit introduces listeners to Poirot’s signature flair and sets the standard for classic detective fiction.

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  The Lair of the White Worm

  Bram Stoker

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  The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within horror and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his grand-uncle. He had first heard from the old gentleman less than a year before, when Richard Salton had claimed kinship, stating that he had been unable to write earlier, as he had found it very difficult to This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  The Iliad and The Odyssey

  Homer Homer

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  The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
  
  Step into the legendary world of ancient Greece with The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, two of the greatest epic poems ever written and foundational works of Western literature.
  
  In The Iliad, readers are transported to the final days of the Trojan War, where honor, pride, rage, loyalty, and destiny collide. At the heart of the epic stands Achilles, the greatest warrior of the Greeks, whose anger shapes the course of the war and changes the lives of kings, soldiers, and families. Through unforgettable figures such as Hector, Priam, Helen, Agamemnon, and Odysseus, Homer explores the devastating cost of conflict and the complex nature of heroism.
  
  In The Odyssey, the story continues with the extraordinary journey of Odysseus as he struggles to return home after the fall of Troy. His voyage takes him across dangerous seas and into encounters with mythical creatures, powerful gods, enchanting sorceresses, and impossible challenges. Meanwhile, in Ithaca, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus face their own struggles as they wait for the long-absent hero to return. Filled with adventure, courage, cleverness, temptation, and perseverance, The Odyssey remains one of the most enduring stories of the human journey home.
  
  Together, these timeless epics offer a powerful exploration of war and peace, love and loyalty, fate and free will, vengeance and forgiveness, and the enduring human desire for honor, identity, and home. Homer's storytelling has influenced literature, art, philosophy, theater, and popular culture for thousands of years.
  
  Whether you are discovering these legendary tales for the first time or returning to them as a lifelong reader, The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer invites you into a world of gods and heroes, battles and voyages, tragedy and triumph—a world whose stories continue to speak to the human experience across the ages.

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  Mary Butts - Six of the Best -...

  Mary Butts

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  Six has always been a number we group things around – Six of the best, six of one half a dozen of another, six feet under, six pack, six degrees of separation and a sixth sense are but a few of the ways we use this number. 
   
  Such is its popularity that we thought it is also a very good way of challenging and investigating an author’s work to give width, brevity, humour and depth across six of their very best. 
   
  In this series we gather together authors whose short stories both rivet the attention and inspire the imagination to visit their gems in a series of six, to roam across an author’s legacy in a few short hours and gain a greater understanding of their writing and, of course, to be lavishly entertained by their ideas, their narrative and their way with words. 
   
  These stories can be surprising and sometimes at a tangent to what we expected, but each is fully formed and a marvellous adventure into the world and words of a literary master. 
   
  1 - Six of the Best - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  2 - Mary Butts - An Introduction 
  3 - With & Without Buttons by Mary Butts 
  4 - The Dinner Party by Mary Butts 
  5 - Angele Au Couvent by Mary Butts 
  6 - Brightness Falls by Mary Butts 
  7 - After the Funeral by Mary Butts 
  8 - In Bayswater - Part 1 by Mary Butts 
  9 - In Bayswater - Part 2 by Mary Butts

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  The Country of the Blind - And...

  H. G. Wells

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  Thirty-three science fiction and fantasy stories from the celebrated author of such classics as The War of the Worlds, The Times Machine, and The Invisible Man. Venture to strange worlds from the imagination of H. G. Wells with this collection of tales of science fiction and fantasy. Witness the darker side of humanity in “The Jilting of Jane” and “The Cone.” Learn what a man does when he faces fear itself in a haunted house in “The Red Room.” Travel to an Ecuadorian mountain community deprived of sight in “The Country of the Blind.” Find a curio inside an antique shop in London’s West End that allows you to see Mars in “The Crystal Egg.” Float down the Amazon on a Brazilian gunboat as a captain and his crew fight to save a village from terrifyingly evolved ants. These are just a few of the unusual journeys awaiting readers inside this compilation from one of the greatest science fiction writers in history.

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