In The Tale of Pigling Bland, an old sow sends away her eight rambunctious children. One of them, Pigling Bland gets lost in the woods and spends the night in a strange chicken-coop. The owner, a farmer named Peter Piperson offers to let Pigling Bland stay at his farm, but Pigling Bland isn't sure that's a good idea. When he meets a beautiful black pig named Pig-Wig, the two make plans to escape. The nineteenth of Beatrix Potter's ...
On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, an NYC detective likely on his way to the d ...
The Fall of the House of Usher, a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, is among Poe's most famous works. This highly unsettling, macabre story is recognized as a masterpiece of American Gothic literature. The narrator, receives a request for help from an ill friend. The house of his friend has an unusual crack going from the roof to the front. His friend asks the narrator's help in interring his dead sister in the family cry ...
First published in a 1841 edition of Graham's Magazine, The Murders in the Rue Morgue is often cited as the first modern detective story. The first of three stories to center around C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's fictional detective, The Murders in the Rue Morgue involves Dupin's investigation of the baffling murders of a mother and daughter. Witnesses report having heard two voices, one French and one unintelligible during the crime. At ...
Das Leben ist ganz schon aufregend, wenn man funfeinhalb und ein ziemlicher Dickkopf ist. So wie Nina, die am liebsten der gefahrlichste Schneeleopard der Welt ware. Dieses Buch erzahlt von Ninas letztem Jahr als Kindergartenkind. Davon, wie es ist, das erste Mal bei einer Freundin zu ubernachten, seinen Geburtstag zu tauschen, im Schwimmkurs fast zu ertrinken und absolut kein Toastbrot mit Rinde essen zu konnen. ...
In The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, a bad rabbit steals a carrot from a good rabbit and scratches him in the process. When a hunter mistakes the bad rabbit for a bird, the bad rabbit inadvertently receives his just desserts. The ninth of Beatrix Potter's 22 charmingly illustrated tales of animals in amusing situations, The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit has served as a warning to naughty children since its release in 1906. ...
The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse is an adaptation of the Aesop Fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse with charming illustrations by Beatrix Potter. In it, a country mouse named Timmy accidentally ends up in the house of Johnny, a town mouse. After experiencing all that the town has to offer, Timmy decides he prefers his quiet life in the country. But how will country life suit Johnny when he comes to visit? The twenty-first of Beatrix Potter&a ...
Die GLITCHES, eine Bande von Computervirus-Programmen, sind zuruckgekehrt! Sie haben das gesamte Computersystem der bundesweiten Flugsicherung in ihre Gewalt gebracht. Alle in der Luft befindlichen Flugzeuge drohen abzusturzen. Viele Menschenleben sind in Gefahr! Jetzt konnen nur noch Danny, der junge Computerfreak, und die COMPUTER FORCE helfen. Doch es gibt ein gro?es Problem: Danny kann keinen Kontakt zur COMPUTER FORCE herstellen, da die GLI ...
Durch einen schweren Sturm und einen fatalen Sabotageakt zerbricht die Insel der Milliardare in zwei Teile und treibt manovrierunfahig mitten auf dem Pazifik. Mit an Bord ist der Schiffbruchige Kapitan Sarol, der versucht, eine Meuterei unter den Uberlebenden anzuzetteln. Doch er ist nicht die einzige Gefahr, die uber ihnen allen schwebt, denn nach wie vor geht eine dunkle Bedrohung auf der Insel um. Phileas Fogg findet unter Einsatz seines Lebe ...
