A narrator arrives at the House of Usher, a very creepy mansion owned by his boyhood friend Roderick Usher.
Every afternoon, after school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's yard. One day the Giant came back. He had been to visit his friend the Cornish ogre, and had stayed with him for seven years.
The little Alice has new adventures. This time she climbs behind a mirror, where the world is like a big chessboard. There she meets talking flowers, singing walrus and the grumpy Humpty Dumpty.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world ("Wonderland") populated by weird, humanoid creatures.
When the boy who never grows up takes the three Darling children - Wendy, John, and Michael - away to Never Land, they embark on an adventure they will never forget.
The collection "Detective Stories" combines two stories of British authors - Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Reeder and Father Brown investigate spectacular cases.
C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris, who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken.
This 18th century short novel explores society behavior as Lady Susan, a recent widow, plots to find an advantageous marriage for herself while marrying her daughter off as well.
The story "The Jungle Book" takes place in a tropical jungle where people are obviously absent. But one day Bagheera the Panther discovers a baby in the wreck of a boat.
The short stories are about English persons, who are members of the ancient nobility, about the true love, inheritance and other interesting occurrences.
