The content is awesome as long as you're looking for a book of antique British nursery rhymes that are (naturally) not modernised, since the text came out quite a long time ago.
Land of Terror Edgar Rice Burroughs - Land of Terror is a 1944 fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the sixth in his series about the fictional "e;hollow earth"e; land of Pellucidar.
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - Lyman Frank Baum - A California earthquake sends Dorothy Gale and her new friends--Zeb the farm boy, Jim the cab-horse, and Eureka the mischievous kitten--tumbling through a crack in the ground.
A House of Pomegranates - Oscar Wilde - A House of Pomegranates is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1891; The Young King (about the illegitimate son of a king's daughter); The Birthday Of The Infanta (about a hunchbacked dwarf found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain); The Fisherman And His Soul (about a young Fisherman who finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot); and, The Star-Child (an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter).
The Golden Ass - Lucius Apuleius - This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Golden Ass (The Metamorphoses of Apuleius)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs - Joseph Jacobs He published his English fairy tale collections: English Fairy Tales in 1890 and More English Fairy Tales in 1893.
Legends of Charlemagne Thomas Bulfinch - This is the third and last part of Bulfinch's Mythology, the previous two being The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, and The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur.
Excerpt: "e;King Arthur was at Caerlleon-upon-Usk; and one day he sat in his chamber, and with him were Owain the son of Urien, and Kynon the son of Clydno, and Kai the son of Kyner, and Gwenhwyvar and her handmaidens at needle-work by the window.
Compiled by an American missionary, West African Folk Tales by William H Barker is a delightful collection of folk tales from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania and other countries along the west coast of Africa.
Excerpt: "e;Reveille was over at the military school, and the three boys on the end of the line nearest the mess hall walked slowly toward the broad steps of the big brick building ahead.
It is rare indeed when a writer's original stories are regarded as masterpieces on a par with the great folkloristic fairy tales that have been handed down through the ages.
Excerpt: "e;A troubled history has all along been that of the great tongue of land which, occupying the same position in Asia as Italy in Europe, is equal to half our continent, with a population growing towards three hundred millions.
Excerpt: "e;Young Edwin Inwood leaped down from the small tree in which he had been perched for the last half hour, and ran swiftly toward the brook where his elder brother, George, and a large negro named Jim Tubbs, were waiting, ever and anon raising their heads, and looking towards the boy who was acting as sentinel, several hundred yards away, as if they were expecting some such an alarm as this.
In Ghostly Japan collects twelve ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan is a bewitching look into a world that few Westerners saw in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a world that still endures in many ways in spite of the changes that have taken place during the modernization of Japan.
Excerpt: "e;Of these Fairy Tales told to children in the Australian bush, "e;The Magic Gun"e; and "e;The Underground River,"e; are original, but the others have been brought from the old country, not in book form, but in the memory of a lover of fairies and children.
