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Cautionary Tales for Children
Hilaire Belloc, Jessica Prando
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children’s book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century.
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter, Cinzia Gentile
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children’s book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter’s former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893.
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Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau, Irene Molin
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.
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Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
Hélène Adeline Guerber, Tommaso dall'Osto
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 5, 2016)Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859–1929), better known as H.A. Guerber, was a British historian most well known for her written histories of Germanic mythology. Her most well known work is Myths of the Norsemen.
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Four Arthurian Romances
Chrétien de Troyes, Jessica Prando
language (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)Chrétien de Troyes (French pronunciation: [kʁe.tjɛ̃ də.tʁwa]) (Christian) was a late 12th centuryFrench poet and trouvère known for his work on Arthurian subjects, and for originating the character Lancelot. This work represents some of the best-regarded of medieval literature. His use of structure, particularly in Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, has been seen as a step towards the modern novel.
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Through the Looking-Glass
Lewis Carroll, Elisa Bellotti
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it.
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The Monkey's Paw
William Wymark Jacobs, Valeria Cairoli
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)The Monkey’s Paw is a supernatural short story by author W. W. Jacobs first published in England in 1902. In the story, three wishes are granted to the owner of the monkey’s paw, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.
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PUDD'NHEAD WILSON
Mark Twain
language (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.At the Missouri frontier town, on the banks of the Mississippi River, the intrigue revolves around two boys—one, born into slavery, with 1/32 black ancestry; the other, white, born to be the master of the house. The two boys, who look similar, are switched at infancy and each grows into the other's social role.
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Eve's Diary
Mark Twain
eBook (Superanda, Jan. 14, 2014)“Eve’s Diary” is one of the best-known short stories by Mark Twain (pen-name of Samuel Clemens, 1835-1910). First published in 1905, the story is the author’s tribute to Olivia, his wife, who died in 1904.The ebook also contains a selection of Twain’s best aphorisms and a biographical note on the author.
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Japanese Fairy Tales
Yei Theodora Ozaki, Irene Molin
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 13, 2016)Yei Theodora Ozaki (英子セオドラ尾崎 Eiko Seodora Ozaki?, 1871 – December 28, 1932) was an early 20th-century translator ofJapanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death.
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The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Lidia De Rosa
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 8, 2016)The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been called one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world.
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde, Chiara Civati
eBook (Superanda, Sept. 11, 2016)The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: “The Happy Prince”, “The Nightingale and the Rose”, “The Selfish Giant”, “The Devoted Friend”, and “The Remarkable Rocket”.