A collection of writing from the sixth cohort of The London Library Emerging Writers Programme. Featuring fiction, poetry, non-fiction, graphic novel, playwriting, screenwriting, and writing for children and young adults, from the brightest new literary talent. Featuring work by: Vic Beswick, José Buera, Robin Cantwell, CE Cathcart, Liz Churchill, Heather Cutforth, Godelieve de Bree, Fionnuala Deasy, Olive Franklin, Shona Graham, William Jarvis, Vashti Katz, Joe Kelly, Dallas Marie Koelling, Marcella Marx, Sharmaine Lim, Hadiru Mahdi, Sabrina Mahtani, Alissa Mears, Emma Mitchell, Olja Mladjenovic, Melina Namdar, Gift Nyoni, Fiona O'Brien, Erin Peacock, cf prior, Holly Redshaw, DC Restaino, Lucie Richter-Mahr, Kate Roche, Barry Sadid, Maxine Sibihwana, Audrey Slade, Avantika Tanaja, Nusrath Tapadar, Kelly Vassie, Abby J Walker, Nathanael Wheatcroft-Brown, Annabel White and Emma Zipfel.
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Contents : Treasure Island The Jungle Book Gulliver's Travels White Fang The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood takes us to Sherwood Forest, where the brigand and his band of "merry men" rob from the rich to give to the poor—to the consternation of the Sheriff of Nottingham. The Jungle Book transports readers into a wondrous world where danger lurks behind every drooping vine and the law of the jungle is the key to survival. Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island follows young Jim Hawkins as he learns the ways of the buccaneer from a group of seafaring miscreants, including the nefarious peg leg, Long John Silver. White Fang by Jack London recreates the forbidding world of the Yukon Gold Rush, where a wild dog must endure violence, hardship, and bitter cold on his journey from savagery to civilization.
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<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;">Czy to możliwe, żeby koza mistrza Kieszonki potrafiła układać wierszyki? W bajce pojawiają się niezwykły stolik, osioł o cudownych uszach i kije samobije.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif, 'Mongolian Baiti', 'Microsoft Yi Baiti', 'Javanese Text', 'Yu Gothic'; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;">Siódmy syn drwala Tomcio Paluszek zdobywa siedmiomilowe buty, żegna rodzinny dom i wyrusza w świat. Czy wzrost jest najważniejszy w życiu człowieka, przekonacie się słuchając tej bajki.</span></p>
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It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; but to and fro in the deeps, far down in the bottomless blue, rushed mighty leviathans, sword-fish, and sharks; and these were the strong, troubled, murderous thinkings of the masculine sea.But though thus contrasting within, the contrast was only in shades and shadows without; those two seemed one; it was only the sex, as it were, that distinguished them.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Man Who Forgot Christmas & The Boy Who Found Christmas (Adventure Classics)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "It was snowing. A northwester was rushing over the mountains. As the storm wind shifted a few points west and east, the mountains cut it away, so that one valley lay in a lull of quiet air, with the snow dropping in perpendicular lines; or else the mountains caught the wind in a funnel and poured a venomous blast, in which the snow hardened and became cold teeth. The two men lying in a covert saw Skinner Mountain, due south of them, withdraw into the mist of white and again jump out at them, blocking half the sky. The weather and the sudden appearances of Mount Skinner troubled Lou Alp" (The Man Who Forgot Christmas). Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944) was an American author known primarily for his thoughtful and literary Westerns under the pen name Max Brand. Brand also created the popular fictional character of young medical intern Dr. James Kildare in a series of pulp fiction stories. Prolific in many genres he wrote historical novels, detective mysteries, pulp fiction stories and many more. His love for mythology was a constant source of inspiration for his fiction, and it has been speculated that these classical influences accounted in some part for his success as a popular writer. Many of his stories would later inspire films.
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<p id="docs-internal-guid-1d6bd72a-7fff-b665-b9a9-814e5c80c454" dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Napisana po polsku i po śląsku, przez ojca i przez córkę – taka właśnie jest bajka </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mała bitwa, wielkie zwycięstwo, czyli ostatni oddech Peruna</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Dla wszystkich, którym bliskie są i polskie, i śląskie historie!</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Krzysztof Zentlik wraz ze swoją córką Anią już po raz drugi wydaje książkę dla dzieci w języku polskim i śląskim. Tym razem autorzy przenoszą nas do roku 1430, do Mikulczyc, którym grozi najazd Henryka Strasznego z Moraw. Czy mieszkańcy wioski pod przywództwem Macieja, wspieranego przez swoją córkę Tereskę, zdołają się uratować? I jak pomoże im w tym niezwykły, piękny i silny koń – Grzywacz? Czy pokona on tajemniczego, umiejącego zmieniać postać wilka?</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Liberation Serif'; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Małą bitwę, wielkie zwycięstwo, czyli ostatni oddech Peruna można czytać zarówno po polsku, jak i po śląsku, odnajdując urok zarówno w jednej, jak i drugiej wersji, a uroku tego jest w tej opowieści wiele!</span></p> <p> </p>
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Patriotism or devotion to one's country is a sentiment. It is not due to self-interest nor other sordid motive, but is born of the story of her origin and of the achievements of the brave and enterprising ancestral stock, which, out of small beginnings, established and organized and wrought a nation. Every great city is in semblance a small nation, both in government and the loyal co-operation of its people for the common good. And the same patriotic devotion, born of the same sentiment does, or should prevail in every city as in every nation. As our civilization grows older our larger cities are taking more interest in the story of their own origin and development, and concerning some of them many historical volumes have been written, dealing with almost every incident of fact and legend that could be traced. And in many notable instances of cities the greater the knowledge of her history, the greater the pride and love and devotion of her people. The city of Memphis, though rated young among her Eastern sisters in America, is yet one of the most ancient, considering the discovery of her site, and the building of the first habitations of the white man here, on the whole American continent. When it is recalled that the adventurous Hernando De Soto built a cantonment for his troops here and established a little ship-yard, in which he constructed four pirogues or barges, large enough to transport across the Mississippi River in time of high water, five hundred Spanish soldiers, as many more Indian vessels and one hundred and fifty horses, with baggage and other military equipment, in a few hours, and that all this occurred seventy-nine years before the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock and twenty-four years before the building of the first hut and stockade at St. Augustine, Fla., it will be realized that our story dates far back in ancient American history. Following up this fact much space has been given to the wonderful march of De Soto from Tampa Bay, Fla., to the Chickasaw Bluffs, literally hewing his way as he came with sword and halberd through swarming nations of brave Indians; and to showing that he marched directly from the Chickasaw towns in northeast Mississippi to the Chickasaw Bluffs; and to presenting in fullest detail from the Spanish Chroniclers what De Soto and his people did while on the Bluffs where Memphis now stands. And it was deemed proper also to tell with equal detail of the voyages of Marquette and Joliet and La Salle, past the lonely Chickasaw Bluffs, and of the coming of Le Moyne Bienville with a large army and the construction of a great fortress here, heavily mounted with artillery, in the endeavor to overcome the heroic Chickasaws who resented the French invasions in the effort to conquer their country and to found a great French Empire in Western America, And the story also is told of the effort of Governor Don Manuel Gayoso to establish in like manner a Spanish Empire west of the Mississippi Riv...
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