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Once upon a time in the days when the fairies lived,  there was a king who had three daughters, who were all young, and clever, and beautiful; but the youngest of the three, who was called Miranda, was the prettiest and the most beloved...

Mr. Carlyle not unjustly described the tragedy of Mary Stuart as but a personal incident in the true national History of Scotland. He asked for other and more essential things than these revelations of high life. Yet he himself wrote in great detail the story of the Diamond Necklace of Marie Antoinette....

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The theory that Francis Bacon was, in the main, the author...

Once upon a time there lived a boy. He was about six years old, he had a good heart but a bad memory, and forgot his father's and his mother's admonitions, and so often got into trouble and met with adventures. But first of all he was brave - he hunted wolves. One day he prepared himself for a real...

DICK WHITTINGTON was a very little boy when his father and mother died; so little, indeed, that he never knew them, nor the place where he was born. He strolled about the country as ragged as a colt, till he met with a wagoner who was going to London, and who gave him leave to walk all the way by the side of his wagon without paying anything for his passage...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: "What mighty quarrels rise from trivial things!" So wrote Mr. Alexander Pope, whom Nicholas Wogan remembers as a bookish boy in the little Catholic colony of Windsor Forest. The line might serve...

Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette, ' appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the editor's kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few additions have been made. The Letters to Horace, Byron, Isaak Walton, Chapelain, Ronsard, and Theocritus have not been published before.

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. Of the following essays, five are new, and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the “Letter to a Young Journalist, ” the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on Homer, and “The Last Fashionable Novel. ”...

Long, long ago, a king and queen reigned over a large and powerful country. What their names were nobody knows, but their son was called Sigurd, and their daughter Lineik, and these young people were famed throughout the whole kingdom for their wisdom and beauty...

Once upon a time there was a poor laborer who, feeling that he had not much longer to live, wished to divide his possessions between his son and daughter, whom he loved dearly...  

Once upon a time a little boy was born to a king who ruled over a great country through which ran a wide river. The king was nearly beside himself with joy, for he had always longed for a son to inherit his crown, and he sent messages to beg all the most powerful fairies to come and see this wonderful baby...

Once upon a time there was a kind king. One day he went for hunting and a hare, which was in pursuit by dogs, jumped into his arms. The king took a hare home. That night, when he was alone in his room, a beautiful lady suddenly appeared before the king. She said that she was a fairy who was transformed...

Now let no one say that a poor tailor can't get on in the world, and, indeed, even attain to very high honour. Nothing is required but to set the right way to work, but of course the really important thing is to succeed...