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Five O'Clock Tales (O'Clock Tales #1)
by Enid BlytonForty-five magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton.Fly away with the Snippet Pixies in search of a new home. Discover the secret ingredient in the fairies' spell to make people better. And join Chitter the gnome as he discovers a Wishing-Balloon!Ideal for bedtime, reading aloud or alone, these magical short stories for 5-8 year-olds will enchant a new generation of children.Look out for more O'Clock tales: Five O'Clock Tales, Six O'Clock Tales, Seven O'Clock Tales and Eight O'Clock Tales.Enid Blyton has been delighting readers for more than seventy years with her endless summers of fun, adventure and magic. Enid's best-loved characters include Noddy the wooden boy, Timmy the dog from The Famous Five and the mischievous twins Pat and Isabel O'Sullivan from the much-loved boarding school series St Clare's!First published in 1941, this edition contains the original text, illustrations and the following stories: The Red and White Cow; The Clock in the Wood; The Peppermint Rock; Brer Fox's Onions; There and Back Again!; Snapdragon Snippets; Oh, no Brer Fox!; The top of the Wall, A busy Morning; The Witch's Egg; Chestnut Prickles; The Remarkable Doughnut; The Wrong Side of the Bed; The Stupid Little Girl; The Bread and Milk; The Sulky Sweets; The Stupid Goblin; The Boast that came True; Sly-one is Caught; Timothy's Tooth; The Four-Leaved Clover; Tuppy and the Goblins; The Five Lost Beans; The Wishing Balloon; The Little Stickleback; Who? Who? Who?; Good Old Jock!; The very old Kettle; Brer Rabbit plays Blind Man's Buff; The Birthday Kitten; The three Hunters; Pitter-Patter's Dance; Well, Really Amelia!; The Brownie and the Witch; Grunt! Grunt!; Brer Rabbit plays Ball; The Little Bird; The Bunch of Carrots; Little Miss Dreamy; Brer Fox's New Suit; The two Cats; Little Suck-A-Thumb; Lazy Kate; Well, Really, Brer Rabbit!; Little Black Bibs
Five O'Clock Tales (O'Clock Tales #1)
by Enid BlytonForty-five magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors.Fly away with the Snippet Pixies in search of a new home, discover the secret ingredient in the fairies' spell to make people better, and join Chitter the gnome as he discovers a Wishing-Balloon!Ideal for bedtime these magical short stories for 5-8 year-olds will enchant a new generation of children.Look out for more O'Clock tales with: Six O'Clock Tales, Seven O'Clock Tales and Eight O'Clock Tales.First published in 1941, this edition contains the following stories: The Red and White CowThe Clock in the WoodThe Peppermint RockBrer Fox's Onions There and Back Again!Snapdragon SnippetsOh, no Brer Fox!The top of the WallA busy MorningThe Witch's EggChestnut PricklesThe Remarkable DoughnutThe Wrong Side of the BedThe Stupid Little GirlThe Bread and MilkThe Sulky SweetsThe Stupid GoblinThe Boast that came TrueSly-one is CaughtTimothy's ToothThe Four-Leaved CloverTuppy and the GoblinsThe Five Lost BeansThe Wishing BalloonThe Little SticklebackWho? Who? Who?Good Old Jock!The very old KettleBrer Rabbit plays Blind Man's BuffThe Birthday KittenThe three HuntersPitter-Patter's DanceWell, Really Amelia!The Brownie and the WitchGrunt! Grunt!Brer Rabbit plays BallThe Little BirdThe Bunch of CarrotsLittle Miss DreamyBrer Fox's New SuitThe two CatsLittle Suck-A-ThumbLazy KateWell, Really, Brer Rabbit!Little Black Bibs(P) 2019 Hodder & Stoughton LimitedEnid Blyton ® and Enid Blyton's signature are registered trade marks of Hodder & Stoughton Limited. No trade mark or copyrighted material may be reproduced without the express written permission of the trade mark and copyright owner.
The Incomplete Enchanter (Gateway Essentials #62)
by L. Sprague deCamp Fletcher PrattThe Mathematics of Magic was probably the greatest discovery of the ages - at least Professor Harold Shea thought so. With the proper equations, he could instantly transport himself back in time to all the wondrous lands of ancient legend.But slips in time were a hazard, and Shea's magic did not always work - at least, not quite as he expected . . .The Incomplete Enchanter is the first in L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt's much-loved Compleat Enchanter series.
The Mammoth Book of Golden Age: Ten Classic Stories from the Birth of Modern Science Fiction Writing (Mammoth Books #189)
by Isaac Asimov Martin GreenbergTen classic stories from the birth of modern science fiction writingThe Golden Age of Science Fiction, from the early 1940s through the 1950s, saw an explosion of talent in SF writing including authors such as Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clarke.Their writing helped science fiction gained wide public attention, and left a lasting impression upon society. The same writers formed the mould for the next three decades of science fiction, and much of their writing remains as fresh today as it was then.Collected in one giant volume, here is the very best of the golden era. The stories include: A.E. van Vogt, 'The Weapons Shop' Isaac Asimov, 'The Big and the Little' Lester del Rey, 'Nerves' Fredric Brown, 'Daymare' Theodore Sturgeon, 'Killdozer!' C.L. Moore, 'No Woman Born' A. Bertram Chandler, 'Giant Killer'
Marvel Captain America: The Never-Ending Battle
by Robert GreenbergerWhen Steve Rogers accompanies a congressional delegation to Eastern Europe, he is confronted by memories from the Second World War, and when the peaceful tour of the region is upended by a series of seemingly random attacks by super-powered opponents, Captain America is forced back on the offensive. Accompanied by Black Widow, Cap undertakes an investigation that uncovers a nefarious plan that could have devastating consequences for the world. Captain America: The Never-Ending Battle takes the Star-Spangled Avenger on a whirlwind tour that forces him to come to terms with his past as he struggles to establish peace for the future. Written by writer and veteran comics editor Robert Greenberger, this novel puts Cap to the test in surprising and unexpected ways that bring his life full circle.
The Creature From Beyond Infinity
by Henry KuttnerLike a great, lethal snake, plague creeps through the galaxies. No conscious entity can halt its progress, and life is slowly draining from planet after planet.Only one super-intelligence is capable of preventing cataclysm. To do it, he must penetrate far beyond infinity - to the formless, deathless creature out to kill the universe.
La invención de Morel
by Adolfo Bioy CasaresLa gran novela de amor y aventuras de Adolfo Bioy Casares, que definió con ella el curso de la literatura argentina. Hito de la literatura fantástica, La invención de Morel (1940) es una novela de amor y aventuras sobre los extraños acontecimientos que descubre un fugitivo al llegar a una isla desierta, en la que de pronto se manifiestan habitantes espectrales. Gracias a la brillante imaginación De Adolfo Bioy Casares, lo inexplicable hallará su razón de ser en un asombroso postulado científico, pero entretanto el narrador caerá presa de sus impulsos más irracionales, hasta vislumbrar no solo la realización de una pasión imposible, sino una suerte de inmortalidad. Sobre la obra: «No me parece una imprecisión o una hipérbole calificarla de perfecta».Jorge Luis Borges
Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey (Jorkens)
by Lord DunsanyJorkens Has a Large Whiskey, the third collection of Dunsany's Jorkens tales to be published, is a collection of fantasy short stories, narrated by Mr. Joseph Jorkens. The book collects twenty-six short pieces by Dunsany.The Jorkens stories are set in the London gentleman's or adventurer's club of which the title character is a member. They usually open with another member mentioning an interesting experience he has had; this rouses Jorkens, who in return for a whisky-and-soda (merely to "moisten his throat," you understand!) goes the other member one better with an extraordinary tall tale, supposedly from his own past. His stories often tip well over the boundaries of the plausible, into the realms of fantasy, horror, or even science fiction, and his auditors can never be quite sure what proportion of what he relates was truly experienced and to what degree he might have embellished.
Lost Men in the Grass
by Donald SuddabyOriginally published in 1940, the protagonist of Lost Men in the Grass is a chemist who invents a serum designed to prolong life, but which in fact enormously shrinks its subjects. It precedes Richard Matheson's famous novel The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956).
Lost Men in the Grass
by Donald SuddabyOriginally published in 1940, the protagonist of Lost Men in the Grass is a chemist who invents a serum designed to prolong life, but which in fact enormously shrinks its subjects. It precedes Richard Matheson's famous novel The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956).
The Reign of Wizardry
by Jack WilliamsonBefore the Glory of Greece, Crete ruled the known world - and kept it enslaved by black magic! The evil of Minos held sway, protected by three unconquerable walls. First is the fleet that they call the wooden wall. Then there is a giant of living brass - he is the second wall. Then there is another barrier about the power of Minos, the Wall of Wizardry. Theseus, the tall Achean, the man they called Captain Firebrand, vowed to scale and destroy all three, and to rid the world of the evil yoke of Crete. But Minos had other defences besides the walls, and many ways to attack as well . . .
Vintage Visions: Essays on Early Science Fiction (Early Classics of Science Fiction)
by Arthur B. EvansVintage Visions is a seminal collection of scholarly essays on early works of science fiction and its antecedents. From Cyrano de Bergerac in 1657 to Olaf Stapledon in 1937, this anthology focuses on an unusually broad range of authors and works in the genre as it emerged across the globe, including the United States, Russia, Europe, and Latin America. The book includes material that will be of interest to both scholars and fans, including an extensive bibliography of criticism on early science fiction--the first of its kind--and a chronological listing of 150 key early works. Before Dr. Strangelove, future-war fiction was hugely popular in nineteenth-century Great Britain. Before Terminator, a French author depicted Thomas Edison as the creator of the perfect female android. These works and others are featured in this critical anthology.Contributors include Paul K. Alkon, Andrea Bell, Josh Bernatchez, I. F. Clarke, William J. Fanning Jr., William B. Fischer, Allison de Fren, Susan Gubar, Rachel Haywood Ferreira, Kamila Kinyon, Stanislaw Lem, Patrick A. McCarthy, Sylvie Romanowski, Nicholas Ruddick, and Gary Westfahl.
The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes: An Easter And Springtime Book For Kids (Sandpiper Bks.)
by DuBose HeywardA hardworking mother rabbit achieves her dream job the night before Easter in this classic picture book.When eggs need to be delivered to all the world’s children the night before Easter, only the fastest bunnies are chosen for the job. The country bunny, a little brown rabbit named Cottontail is a mama to twenty-one little ones, thinks that perhaps her lifelong dream of being one of the five Easter Bunnies is a hopeless one.But when Grandfather Bunny searches for a new Easter Bunny, he is looking for someone who is wise, kind, swift, and clever. He is looking for Cottontail. So begins this brave mama bunny’s night of adventure and magic.Whimsical and sweet with bright illustrations in Easter egg pastels, the country bunny’s story is as magical today as it was in 1939. It is a celebration of the timeless values of equality, hard work, and patient ambition.Praise for The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes“It is difficult to believe that this very modern feminist tale was originally written in 1939. A gem of a fantasy in which kindness and cleverness win out over size and brawn.” —Learning Magazine
The Edge of Running Water (Gateway Essentials #360)
by William SloaneThe Edge of Running Water deals with the adventures of a young psychologist in a remote Maine farm house; with the death of a woman and the disappearance of an inventor. Against a normal enough background, events take on the shape of terror, with a tinge of the unknown - hints of things beyond the borderland of the natural, including the strange researches into survival after death by a half-mad electro-physicist. Set against these, a tender love story adds an unexpected poignancy and charm.
The Enchanted Wood: Book 1 (The Magic Faraway Tree #1)
by Enid BlytonThe first magical story in the Faraway Tree series by one of the world's most popular children's authors, Enid Blyton.Joe, Beth and Frannie find the Enchanted Wood on the doorstep of their new home, and when they discover the Faraway Tree they fall into all sorts of adventures!Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Come on an amazing adventure!First published in 1939, this edition contains the original text. Inside illustrations are by Jan McCafferty, and the cover by Mark Beech (2014).
The Enchanted Wood: Book 1
by Enid BlytonThe first magical story in the Faraway Tree series by one of the world's most popular children's authors, Enid Blyton.Joe, Beth and Frannie find the Enchanted Wood on the doorstep of their new home, and when they discover the Faraway Tree they fall into all sorts of adventures!Join them and their friends Moonface, Saucepan Man and Silky the fairy as they discover which new land is at the top of the Faraway Tree. Will it be the Land of Spells, the Land of Treats, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Come on an amazing adventure!First published in 1939, this edition contains the original text. Inside illustrations are by Jan McCafferty, and the cover by Mark Beech (2014).
The Enchanted Wood: Book 1 (The Magic Faraway Tree #1)
by Enid BlytonThe first book in Enid Blyton's much loved Magic Faraway Tree series - read by KATE WINSLET.The Enchanted Wood is the first wonderful story in the Faraway Tree series by the world's best-loved children's author, Enid Blyton.When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to a new home, they discover an Enchanted Wood just outside their doorstep. Soon they find the Faraway Tree, which is the beginning of many magical adventures...Join them and their new friends Silky the fairy, Saucepan Man and Moonface, as they discover which new land awaits them at the top of the Faraway Tree.Will they visit the Land of Treats, the Land of Spells, or the Land of Do-As-You-Please? Come with them on an amazing adventure - there will be magic and fun at every turn.This recording follows the original text, first published in 1939. It does not contain the following chapters, which were first written for Enid Blyton's Omnibus! published in 1952, and later inserted into some editions of The Enchanted Wood: Up to the Land of Toys They get into trouble Mr Oom-Boom-Boom In Santa Claus's Castle(P) Hodder Children's Books 2013
The Hopkins Manuscript: A Novel
by R.C. SherriffA stunning speculative novel about a small English village preparing of the end of the world.Edgar Hopkins is a retired math teacher with a strong sense of self-importance, whose greatest pride is winning poultry-breeding contests. When not meticulously caring for his Bantam, Edgar is an active member of the British Lunar Society. Thanks to that affiliation, Edgar becomes one of the first people to learn that the moon is on a collision course with the earth. Members of the society are sworn to secrecy, but eventually the moon begins to loom so large in the sky that the truth can no longer be denied. During these final days, Edgar writes what he calls &“The Hopkins Manuscript&”—a testimony juxtaposing the ordinary and extraordinary as the villagers dig trenches and play cricket before the end of days. First published in 1939, as the world was teetering on the brink of global war, R.C. Sherriff&’s classic science fiction novel is a timely and powerful missive from the past that captures human nature in all its complexity.
Naughty Amelia Jane!: Book 1 (Amelia Jane #1)
by Enid BlytonEnid Blyton's Amelia Jane is big, bad and the world's naughtiest toy!Look out! Amelia snips the tail off pink rabbit, squirts Tom the soldier with water and gets up to mischief at the beach. The other toys try to teach the terror of the toy cupboard to be well-behaved, but will they succeed?First published in 1939, this edition contains the classic text and illustrations by Deborah Allwright, cover by Alex T. Smith (2011).
Recuerdos olvidados
by Mar P. Zabala«Solo queda la historia de esos dos amantes que nunca fuimos y nunca seremos, paseando por las calles de la ciudad. Te seguiré esperando, te esperare toda la vida si hace falta, hasta que vuelvas a sentarte junto a mí en este banco». Dos jóvenes recién casados inician felices su luna de miel, sin saber que el estallido de la Guerra Civil cambiara sus vidas y sus destinos. Lejos de su hogar y de su familia, deben luchar día a día por sobrevivir entre desconocidos. Una mujer despierta en una cama de hospital. No recuerda nada de su vida anterior. La rodean personas extrañas para ella, que dicen ser sus padres y su marido. Ni siquiera recuerda a su propia hija. A través de las páginas que narran paralelamente estas dos historias asistiremos a un sorprendente y apasionante desenlace. Recuerdos olvidados es una deliciosa novela repleta de sentimientos y emociones. Está escrita son una sensibilidad exquisita que no dejará indiferente a nadie.
Anthem: Large Print
by Ayn RandIn this philosophical novel, the celebrated author of Atlas Shrugged presents a searing portrait of a dystopian future in which all ego has been erased. In a world where science and learning are banned and the simple utterance of the Unspeakable Word, I, is punishable by death, a man named Equality 7-2521 struggles with his unquenchable desire to investigate, to think, to know. His instincts are a &“curse&” that threatens to bring him to the attention of a government dedicated to the elimination of the self. But Equality 7-2521 cannot ignore his true nature, just as he cannot ignore the fruits of his curiosity: the discovery of the mysterious &“power of the sky.&” His great awakening—in heart, mind, and soul—represents the inevitable triumph of the individual over the collective. A riveting, thought-provoking parable based on the author&’s experience of life in a socialist state, Anthem serves as an invaluable introduction to Ayn Rand, her fiction, and her philosophy.
The Lad and the Lion
by Edgar Rice BurroughsIn THE LAD AND THE LION, Edgar Rice Burroughs has returned to a theme that catapulted his name to fame when he wrote "Tarzan of the Apes". For here is the story of a youth - actually a deposed king - whose life is preserved by a miracle and who grows up on a derelict ship in companion with a lion.Eventually the winds and currents deposit the strange pair on the coast of Africa, and the youth learns the lessons of the wild, helped by his closest friend and protector, the giant, black-maned lion.The book is filled with the loyalty and staunch friendship of beasts - and with the treachery of man. It has all the trills and adventure and suspense that have made fans of millions of Edgar Rice Burroughs readers.
Nightingale Wood
by Stella GibbonsIn this sly and satirical fairytale, Viola is penniless and alone after her husband's demise. The occupants of the home she is forced to live in are nearly insufferable: Mr. Withers is a miser; Mrs. Withers dismisses her as a common shop girl; and Viola's sisters-in-law, Madge and Tina, are too preoccupied. Only the prospect of the upcoming charity ball can lift her spirits. But Victor's intentions towards the young widow are, in short, not quite honorable.
No Life of Their Own: And Other Stories (The Complete Short Fiction of Clifford D. Simak #5)
by Clifford D. Simak David W. WixonTwelve tales of the unknown from a master of science fiction Clifford D. Simak had a sublime ability to evoke a lost way of life. He spent his youth in rural Wisconsin, a landscape filled with mysterious hollows, cliffs, dark forests, and the Wisconsin River flowing in its deep-cut valley. As Simak wandered the countryside and the ridges, he peopled them with imaginary characters who later came to life in his stories. One such individual is Johnny, the orphaned farm boy of "The Contraption," who stumbles upon a wrecked starship and receives a priceless gift from its owners. Another is the old prospector Eli, whose surprising discoveries on Mercury get him killed in "Spaceship in a Flask." In "Huddling Place," a man with paralyzing agoraphobia is the only one who can save the life of a dear friend on Mars--if he can bear to make the trip. And in the title story, aliens slowly take over Earth while humans leave it behind and head for the Homestead Planets. Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.
Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy #1)
by C. S. LewisJust as readers have been transfixed by the stories, characters, and deeper meanings of Lewis's timeless tales in The Chronicles of Narnia, most find this same allure in his classic Space Trilogy. <P><P> In these fantasy stories for adults, we encounter, once again, magical creatures, a world of wonders, epic battles, and revelations of transcendent truths. <P>Out of the Silent Planet is the first novel in C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy. It tells the adventure of Dr. Ransom, a Cambridge academic, who is abducted and taken on a spaceship to the red planet of Malacandra, which he knows as Mars. His captors are plotting to plunder the planet's treasures and plan to offer Ransom as a sacrifice to the creatures who live there. Ransom discovers he has come from the "silent planet"-Earth-whose tragic story is known throughout the universe!