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.
Weihnachtslied Charles Dickens - Die Erzählung handelt von Ebenezer Scrooge, einem alten, grantigen Geizhals, der in einer einzigen Nacht zunächst Besuch von seinem verstorbenen Teilhaber Jacob Marley und dann von drei weiteren Geistern erhält, die ihm schließlich dazu verhelfen, sein Leben zu ändern.
Doktor Faustus, vortrefflichster aller Astrologen, Chiromanten, Aeromanten, Geomanten, Pyromanten und Hydromanten, nennt sich selbst den "Quellbrunn der Nekromanten", den Zweiten unter den Magiern.
Excerpt: "e;"e;Scritch-scratch, scritch-scratch,"e; went a noise in the woods not very far away from the pond where Doctor Muskrat was telling a story to Nibble Rabbit and Stripes Skunk.
Excerpt: "e;You'd have thought every wing and paw in the Woods and Fields (except the Bad Little Owls, of course) would have been glad to know that Silvertip the Fox was caught.
