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Synopsis. The story opens at the beginning of Holy Week, when there is still melting snow on the ground. An older girl, Akulya, and a younger girl, Malasha, go outside to play. They both have just been given new frocks, but they insist on wading through one of the puddles from the melting snow. They both take off their shoes to keep them dry ...
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 more difficult names and a ...
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 ...
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 .
Fever Dream (short story) "Fever Dream" was originally published in the September 1948 issue of Weird Tales. " Fever Dream " is a short story written by Ray Bradbury in 1948 for Weird Tales. It deals with the issues and anxieties suffered by teenagers that result from bodily change, in a somewhat Gothic light.
A boy comes to an island to help an old lighthouse keeper. However, every Friday night, music plays, and the boy suspects it has something to do with the lighthouse keeper's ancestors. Stan (the lighthouse keeper) is the son of the captain’s son. He is unable to hear the music because it was his ancestors' music.
Plot summary. The children, Grisha, Anya, Alyosha, and Sonya, as well as Andrey, the son of a cook, stay up late, taking advantage of the adults' being absent, and play lotto. Quite different things motivate them. Grisha, a nine-year-old, is the most ardent of the contestants; greedy and highly anxious, he plays only for the money.
Trifles (play) Trifles. (play) Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.