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2. The Happy Prince and Other Tales - Wikipedia

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   The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or 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 ." In 2003, the second through fourth stories were adapted by Lupus ...

3. Category:Children's short stories - Wikipedia

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   S. Silver Hoof. Sinyushka's Well. Smoke in the Forest. Somebody Else's Prince. The Son of Sobek. The Staff of Serapis. The Stone Flower. Struwwelpeter.

4. Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - Wikipedia

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   Print (hardback & paperback) Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare is a 1907 collection published by E. Nesbit with the intention of entertaining young readers and retelling William Shakespeare 's plays in a way they could be easily understood by younger readers. She also included a brief Shakespeare biography, a pronunciation guide to some of the ...

5. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   7813056. Preceded by. The Dark Room. Followed by. The English Teacher. Malgudi Days is a collection of short stories by R. K. Narayan published in 1943 by Indian Thought Publications. [1] The book was republished outside India in 1982 by Penguin Classics. [2] The book includes 32 stories, all set in the fictional town of Malgudi, [3] located in ...

6. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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   E. T. A. Hoffmann's tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" was published in 1816 in a German collection of stories for children, Kinder-Märchen. It is the first modern short story to introduce bizarre, odd and grotesque elements in children's literature and thereby anticipates Lewis Carroll's tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

7. Children on Their Birthdays (short story) - Wikipedia

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   Synopsis. The story is set in rural Alabama, where Miss Lily Jane Bobbit, a precocious 10-year-old girl, moves to town with her mother. The young girl is pretty and attracts the positive attention of the town boys, and the negative attentions of the town girls. The narrator's younger cousin Billy-Bob and his best friend Preacher fight for Miss ...

8. Proserpine (play) - Wikipedia

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   Proserpine. (play) Proserpine by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1874) Proserpine [1] is a verse drama written for children by the English Romantic writers Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary wrote the blank verse drama and Percy contributed two lyric poems. Composed in 1820 while the Shelleys were living in Italy, it is often ...

9. I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories - Wikipedia

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   The title story concerns The Cat in the Hat's son, who brags that he can fight 30 tigers and win. He makes excuse after excuse, finally disqualifying all the tigers until he must fight no tigers at all. The second story, "King Looie Katz", concerns The Cat's ancestor, and is a warning against hierarchical society advocating self-reliance.