A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress ? ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but ... Read more
Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to ... Read more
Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to ... Read more
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The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked ? with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened ? on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So ho ... Read more
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So ho ... Read more
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ‘No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. An ... Read more
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ‘No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. An ... Read more
It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the bro ... Read more
It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the bro ... Read more
In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf- Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf, he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the ... Read more
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