Beatrice Potter (1866-1943) is still one of the most popular children's writers in the world. She wrote and illustrated 28 books, which were translated into 35 languages and sold over 100 million copies. Peter Rabbit was named after the little rabbit Beatrice Potter had in childhood. The first tale of Peter the Bunny was created in 1893 in a letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of the former governess Potter, Annie Moore....
The English writer Richmal Crompton is best known for his funny tales of William Brown. Children and adults fell in love with this inexhaustible hero. Simply, William is the first book of children's stories about a young school boy, William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton and published in 1922. The book was the first in a series of books by William Brown, which was the basis for numerous television series, films and radio adaptations....
The collection "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" by Oscar Wilde, a famous English writer of the 19th century, is a classic example of English prose. The fabulous motives and the “decorative” style of narration conceal the most important moral problems. The fairy tales reflected the aesthetic views of Oscar Wilde on art, the task of which the writer saw the creation of beauty, inaccessible to real life....
Peter, the mischievous little rabbit, climbed into Mr. McGregor's garden to enjoy salad, radish, parsley. But just how can Peter get out? Where is the gate - he forgot, and the angry owner began to chase after Peter around the garden!...
Every toy dreams of becoming real. But this does not happen by magic. If you want to become real, you need to be truly loved. This is where the magic begins ......
The book includes the famous story by Arthur Conan Doyle “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1902), the plot of which is based on a randomly heard author. The investigation of the strange origin is a consequence of the attack on monstrous dogs, which predetermine the persecution of family Baskervilles. The mystery of the family portrait, jealousy, the struggle for the inheritance and explicit recognition in the finale of the narrative create a unique flavor of one of the best works of the detective genre. You can read the book The Hound of the Baskervilles for free. To read the book of the...
Robinson Crusoe - The hero of the novels of Daniel Defoe, the first two of which were published in 1719. The first book about Robinson gave rise to the classic English novel and spawned the fashion for pseudo-documentary prose; it is often called the first "authentic" novel in English. This literary character has a real prototype - Alexander Selkirk, the boatswain of the ship "Cinque Ports" ("Senk Por"), distinguished by an extremely quarrelsome and quarrelsome character. Selkirk was landed in 1704, at his request, on an uninhabited island, supplied with weapons, food, seeds and tools....
The book was written by Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery in 1908, and she continues to publish huge editions in the United States, Canada, England, Australia. series anime, created theatrical performances. No wonder Mark Twain himself once called the heroine Montgomery "the most touching and charming child in fiction since the time of the immortal Alice." This is all living and full of humor, everyone who is familiar with the work of Lucy Montgomery, knows what bright feelings he gives rise to!...
he Brothers Grimm (Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm (1786–1859)) are German linguists and storytellers. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were the greatest experts on German folklore. They studied the grammar of Germanic languages, the history of law, and mythology. The tales of the Brothers Grimm are world famous. The most famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: Successful Trade, Brave Tailor, Clever Hans, Wolf and the Seven Little Kids, Straw, ember and bob, Mrs. , Snow White and Alotsvetik and of course the Bremen street musicians....
