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These two volumes of the author's fairy tales include The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Birthday of the Infanta, and many more ; Bibliography: p. ix ; These two volumes of the author's fairy tales include The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Birthday of the Infanta, and many more
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Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it. It had never been even mentioned to him. He knew that his papa had been an Englishman, because his mamma had told him so; but then his papa had died when he was so little a boy that he could not remember very much about him, except that he was big, and had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing to be carried around the room on his shoulder. Since his papa’s death, Cedric had found out that it was bes...
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The endeavour has been made in this volume to bring together the heroic men of different races, periods and types; and in the selection of material the most attractive, intelligent and authoritative literature has been drawn upon. In cases in which the material selected belongs distinctively to the best literature, no changes have been made, although narratives have been abbreviated; in cases in which the material has a historical rather than a distinctively literary qua...
Excerpt: Chapter 1. THE OLD HOUSE. ?Somewhat back from the village street Stands the old?fashioned country seat.? ONCE upon a time in an old town, in an old street, there stood a very old house. Such a house as you could hardly find nowadays, however you searched, for it belonged to a gone?by time a time now quite passed away. It stood in a street, but yet it was not like a town house, for though the front opened right on to the pavement, the back windows looked out upon...
The Nrnberg stove.--The ambitious rose-tree.--Moufflou.--Lampblack.--The child of Urbino.--In the apple-country.--Findelkind.--Meleagris Gallopavo.--The little earl
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"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" is a short story in The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about the adventures of a valiant young mongoose. The story is notable for its frightening and serious tone. A 19th-century English family — who have moved to a bungalow in the jungles of Segowlee cantonment in Bihar State, India — discover a young Mongoose half drowned from a flood. They revive it and decide to keep it as a pet. The young mongoose, named Rikki Tikki Tavi, finds himself confronted ...