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  2. Madol Doova - Wikipedia

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    Madol Doova ( Sinhala: මඩොල් දූව is a children's novel and coming-of-age story written by Sri Lankan writer Martin Wickramasinghe and first published in 1947. The book recounts the misadventures of Upali Giniwella and his friends on the Southern coast of Sri Lanka during the 1890s. It later describes the efforts of Upali and his ...

  3. Fiela's Child - Wikipedia

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    0-394-55231-8. OCLC. 13003348. Dewey Decimal. 823 19. LC Class. PR9369.3.M376 F5 1986. Fiela's Child is a South African drama written by Dalene Matthee and published in 1985. The book was originally written in Afrikaans under the name Fiela se Kind, and was later translated into English, German, French, Hebrew, Dutch, Slovene and Swedish.

  4. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader, from picture books for the very young to young adult fiction .

  5. The Sandman (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story contains an example of a horrific depiction of the folklore character, the Sandman, who is traditionally said to throw sand in the eyes of children to help them fall asleep. The following excerpt is from an English translation of the story:

  6. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    A translation by Alexander James Duffield appeared in 1881 and another by Henry Edward Watts in 1888. Most modern translators take as their model the 1885 translation by John Ormsby. An expurgated children's version, under the title The Story of Don Quixote, was published in 1922 (available on Project Gutenberg). It leaves out the risqué ...

  7. Riders to the Sea - Wikipedia

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    Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theater Society with Helen Laird playing Maurya. A one-act tragedy, the play is set at Inishmaan in the Aran Islands, and like all of Synge's plays ...

  8. A Drama in the Air - Wikipedia

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    This short story foreshadows Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon. English publication. The story has appeared in English translation in the following forms. As "A Voyage in a Balloon" (translated by Anne T. Wilbur): 1852 – Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature; As "A Drama in Mid-Air" (translated by Abby L. Alger):

  9. The Emperor's New Clothes - Wikipedia

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    In 1968, on their Four Fairy Tales and Other Children's Stories album, the Pickwick Players performed a version of this story that is actually a version of "The King's New Clothes" from the film Hans Christian Andersen. In this version, two swindlers trick the Emperor into buying a nonexistent suit, only for a boy to reveal the truth in the end.