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The Picture of Dorian Gray is a philosophical fiction and gothic horror novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella -length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The novel-length version was published in April 1891. The story revolves around a portrait of ...
Multiple sources have identified the story of Epimenides as the earliest known variant of the "Rip Van Winkle" fairy tale. [17] [18] [20] [12] [21] The story of "Rip Van Winkle" itself is widely thought to have been based on Johann Karl Christoph Nachtigal's German folktale "Peter Klaus", [5] [12] which is a shorter story set in a German ...
Wuthering Heights is the only novel by the English author Emily Brontë, initially published in 1847 under her pen name "Ellis Bell". It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with the Earnshaws' foster son, Heathcliff.
The Secret Garden at Wikisource. The Secret Garden is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911, after serialisation in The American Magazine (November 1910 – August 1911). Set in England, it is seen as a classic of English children's literature.
1837. " Goldilocks and the Three Bears " is a 19th-century English fairy tale of which three versions exist. The original version of the tale tells of an impudent old woman who enters the forest home of three anthropomorphic bachelor bears while they are away. She eats some of their porridge, sits down on one of their chairs, breaks it, and ...
Of Mice and Men is a 1937 novella written by American author John Steinbeck. [1][2] It describes the experiences of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression. Steinbeck based the novella on his own experiences as a teenager ...
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince, pronounced [lə p (ə)ti pʁɛ̃s]) is a novella written and illustrated by French writer and military pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in the United States by Reynal & Hitchcock in April 1943 and was published posthumously in France following liberation ...
Heidi (/ ˈ h aɪ d i /; German:) is a work of children's fiction published between 1880 and 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning [1] (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi: How She Used What She Learned [2] (German: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). [3]