By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter III | In Which Pooh And Piglet Go Hunting And Nearly Catch A Woozle | The Piglet lived in a very grand house in the middle of a beech-tree, and the beech-tree was in the middle of the forest, and the…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter II | In Which Pooh Goes Visiting And Gets Into A Tight Place | Edward Bear, known to his friends as Winnie-the-Pooh, or Pooh for short, was walking through the forest one day, humming proudly to himself. He had made up…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Chapter I | In Which We Are Introduced To Winnie-The-Pooh And Some Bees, And The Stories Begin | Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as…
By | ALAN A. MILNE | Winnie-The-Pooh | Introduction | If you happen to have read another book about Christopher Robin, you may remember that he once had a swan (or the swan had Christopher Robin, I don’t know which) and that he used to call this swan Pooh. That…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave V | The End of It | Yes! and the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave IV | The Last of The Spirits | The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently, approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave III | The Second of The Three Spirits | Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave II | The First of The Three Spirits | When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber. He was endeavouring to pierce…
By | CHARLES DICKENS | A Christmas Carol | Stave I | Marley’s Ghost | Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and…
By | GEORGE MACDONALD | The Princess and the Goblin | Chapter XXXII | The Last Chapter | All the rest went up the mountain, and separated in groups to the homes of the miners. Curdie and his father and mother took Lootie with them. And the whole way a…