“The Happy Prince” is a beautiful golden statue high up on a column in the city. Everyone loves him. He feels sad about the city’s poor people, but what can he do? He can’t leave his column. Then the swallow arrives, and helps the Happy Prince to do many good things. But what about the […]
Presents eleven of the English writer’s works including the title story featuring a three hundred-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house.
One day Pole-cat went to visit «Kalulu the Hare«. He said, ‘Near my home there is a village. In that village all the people are friends. They never quarrel… Frank Worthington tells us a lot of tales from Africa.
Sleepy Hollow is a quiet, peaceful place near the Hudson River in the USA, but it is alive with stories about ghosts and witches. One night, the teacher in Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod Crane, has a terrifying adventure with Sleepy Hollow’s most famous ghost, the Headless Horseman, with unexpected results. Everyone will enjoy this exciting story […]
West Hill School is just an ordinary school, but one day a new teacher arrives and some very strange things start to happen. The teacher comes to work in a car that has no driver. He carries a newspaper dating from 1935. And he always seems to punish the same boy. What is going on?
Sara loves running and her coach encourage her. She can win the National Championships, BUT Eddie, her boyfriend doesn’t wat Sara to run. She loves Eddie. She is «Born to Run«. Can she win the race and keep Eddie?
Un muchacho se pone muy contento al ver al gran gorila en el zoo y, en seguida, triste por ver como un magnifico gorila grande, negro y mucho más fuerte que un hombre, ha de permanecer enjaulado. De repente, el gorila se escapa del zoo, aparecen algunas huellas suyas al lado de una casa llamada […]
“A Chrismas Carol” es un cuento navideño, el primero de los que sobre este tema escribió Charles Dickens (1812-1870). Narra cómo el protagonista, un hombre avaro, frío y sin corazón, recibe la víspera de Navidad la visita del fantasma de su fallecido socio, quien le advierte que se le van a aparecer tres espíritus y, […]
Nos ofrece este volumen de “Narraciones” una decena de ellas con la sencillez por bandera, tal como suele hacerlo Anton Chéjov, que toma como tipo al paisanaje corriente, tanto de la ciudad como del mundo rural.
Esta antología de “Cuentos” nos propone un recorrido por un tipo de cuento muy característico de Anton Chéjov. En las narraciones los protagonistas creen advertir indicios de un cambio que los liberará de una vida gris y sin alicientes, pero quedarán defraudados. Hay que esperar al último relato de Chéjov, “La novia”, para que se […]