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2. The Secret Garden - Wikipedia

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   It continued to rank well on readers’ polls for favorite stories. In 1927, it placed in the top fifteen favorite books of female Youth Companion readers, and in the 1960s, the readers of The New York Times ranked The Secret Garden as one of the best children's books. Surveys of adult readers in the 1970s and 1980s show that the novel was a ...

3. The Jungle Book - Wikipedia

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   The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling. Most of the characters are animals such as Shere Khan the tiger and Baloo the bear, though a principal character is the boy or "man-cub" Mowgli, who is raised in the jungle by wolves. Most stories are set in a forest in India; one place mentioned repeatedly ...

4. List of 19th-century British children's literature titles

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   With Clive in India (1884), G. A. Henty; A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson (1885) The Story of a Short Life, Juliana Horatia Ewing (1885) Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886) A World of Girls, L. T. Meade (1886) The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde (1888) Friday's Child (1889) Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, Andrew ...

5. Rudyard Kipling - Wikipedia

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   Rudyard Kipling. Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( / ˈrʌdjərd / RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) [1] was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology ( The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle ...

6. Ruskin Bond - Wikipedia

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   Ruskin Bond (born 19 May 1934) is an Indian author. His first novel, The Room on the Roof, was published in 1956, and it received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1957. Bond has authored more than 500 short stories, essays, and novels which includes 69 books for children.

7. Malgudi Days (short story collection) - Wikipedia

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   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 South India. Each of the stories portrays a facet of life in Malgudi. [4]