Oscar Wilde

Kenneth Brodey

FAIRY TALE & FANTASY A story of love and friendship about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her. However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul. Dossiers: Children’s Literature Aestheticism

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The Fisherman and his Soul

Charles Dickens

James Butler

A Tale of Two Cities

Robert Hill

Victoria Spence

Beowulf

Gina D. B. Clemen

HUMAN INTEREST Was Nostradamus really a prophet or were his predictions a mere coincidence? What mystery lies behind the curse of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh King Tut? Can an exquisite diamond bring death and tragedy to its owners? Does evil really exist and what forms can it take? Find out about these strange stories and others, and perhaps you'll be able to solve our world's greatest mysteries!

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Great Mysteries of Our World

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Arthur Conan Doyle

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Clarence Rook

Buch. / Text adaptation and notes by James Butler. [Ed.: Monika Marszewska ; Rebecca Raynes]

Classic Detective Stories

Lektüreband für die 9./10. Klasse mit farbigen Illustrationen und zahlreichen Aufgaben mit Schwerpunkt Verstehen, Lesen, Schreiben und Sprechen.

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Edgar Allan Poe

Gianni De Conno

MYSTERY & HORROR Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first masters of modern short stories and modernist poetry. But he is best remembered for his strange style of horror, with characters who cannot be forgotten. A man who drains away his wife’s life to make his painting seem alive; an animal lover who becomes obsessed by a cat; a young man obsessed by an old man’s blue eye; and a man hypnotized just before he dies who then… Dossiers: Poe’s scientific imagination, Poe as pop icon, Poe’s America

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American Horror - Five Terrifying Tales

"Three of Poe's terrifying tales of madness are presented here at elementary level. In 'The black cat' the carzy narrator's horrible crime is exposed to the police by his cat. The wild artist in 'The oval portrait' takes the life out of his wife to be able to put it on canvas, and in 'The tell-tale heart' a dead man's beating heart reveals the murderer to the police." - back cover.

Three Terrifying Tales

American Horror

David Herbert Lawrence

Blanche Malvern

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Kenneth Brodey

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