Classic Fairy

Une lumière éblouissante descendit du ciel sur Arthur. La foudre vint frapper la pointe d'Excalibur, et l'enchanteur Merlin apparut ! C'est ainsi qu'Arthur devint roi.

Far out at sea, where the water is the bluest of blue, lived a Little Mermaid with her five sisters in an enchanting underwater city surrounded by beautiful flowers and exotic fish of all kinds. Fascinated by stories of the world beyond where the animals and humans dwell, they eagerly awaited their turn to the surface. So, as decree allowed, the Little Mermaid was permitted to rise out of the sea to sit on the rocks in the moonlight on her 16th birthday. In this strange new world, she saves a charming prince from certain death and falls in love.

The Fables of Aesop brings together some of history’s most enduring moral stories, retold with warmth and clarity by renowned folklorist Joseph Jacobs. From the determined tortoise challenging the boastful hare to the grateful lion repaying a humble mouse, each story offers a gentle reminder of values like kindness, honesty, courage, and the importance of thinking before we act.

"C'était surtout en hiver qu'on nous enfermait de bonne heure; il fallait attendre quatre heures au moins avant que tout le monde fût endormi, aussi était-ce un tumulte, un vacarme de rires, de jurons, de chaînes qui sonnaient, une vapeur infecte, une fumée épaisse, un brouhaha de têtes rasées, de fronts stigmatisés, d'habits en lambeaux, tout cela encanaillé, dégoûtant; oui, l'homme est un animal vivace! on pourrait le définir: un être qui s'habitue à tout, et ce serait peut-être là la meilleure définition qu'on en ait donnée."

Saffron Sawyer is a faery on a mission. She may no longer have the same rose-tinted spectacles about her job as she once did, but she's still determined to be the best faery godmother that there is. And when she's given the role as leader of a taskforce designed to hunt down the elusive trolls, she knows it's her time to step up and be counted. Juggling her new responsibilities while dealing with difficult clients isn't easy, however. Danger lurks around every corner-and Jasper, the handsome and powerful Devil's Advocate, is continually looming over her shoulder in the office.

This is the original classic story of Bram Stoker's undead monster. It has influenced Western portrayals (including Buffy and Angel) of vampires and vampirism for nearly a century. Even after all this time, Bram Stoker's Dracula remains the undisputed masterpiece of horror writing.

The historian, scholar, and anthropologist, Andrew Lang, began publishing collections of fairy tales from around the globe in the late 19th century. His status as one of England's foremost folklorists and his superb literary abilities make his collections unique in the English language. The Grey Fairy Book contains more than 30 stories from Africa, Germany, Greece, France and Lithuania. The overlap in the theme, plot and characters of narratives from across the world is remarkable.

"Johnny Butler was just four years old when his Lenni Lenape "father," Cuyloga, spoke the words that siphoned out his white blood and put Indian blood in its place. Now the Yengwes, the white soldiers, were taking him back to his "true" home. Inside of him hate and anger spread like poisons. The Light in the Forest, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Conrad Richter, will touch a new generation with its lasting truths.

There’s no place like home...but they’re not headed to Kansas. The Sanctuary is the hidden home of the Golden Circle-a sect of powerful mages. It’s a sacred place of learning, magic, and deep secrets. When Tristan discovers his father, Connor Montague is being held prisoner, he vows to return to the Sanctuary and release him. There’s only one problem. The Sanctuary has been taken over by Mage Oliver. An Elder who has unleashed the magistrates and promises to destroy Tristan the moment he steps foot on the mountain.

This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

"Una volta un uomo aveva un pero, che gli faceva quattro corbe di pere all'anno". Così inizia la fiaba "La bambina venduta con le pere", in cui la piccola Perina riesce a ribaltare il proprio destino e a sposare il figlio del Re. Un bambino viene trasformato in un "Vitellino con le corna d'oro", ma grazie alla sorella la sua storia avrà un lieto fine. La graziosa "Giricoccola" è presa di mira dalle sorelle: riuscirà, anche trasformata in statua, a farsi amare dal principe? Nella fiaba "L'acqua nel cestello" una ragazza si farà benvolere, con la sua umiltà, da una vecchia maga.

Download eight timeless audio tales from a magical storyteller This enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains eight of Hans Christian Andersen's magnificent fairy tales. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint high, The Emperor's New...

It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim – nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open. But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated. In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations....

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami...

This story takes place in the Darkness Within Saga world and is book 1 of a spin-off Origins series. After the death of Sokn’s High King and the theft of several volatile bloodstone runes by rebel Ama Taugr necromancers, Jarl Engier War-Blood unites the northern clans in an effort to defend a rundown fortress situated over the last Sokn bloodstone mine. The rare mineral is the only source of power known to raise the dead and when the necromancers come for it, Engier and his allies quickly find themselves cornered and outnumbered by an army of walking dead.

Celeste is about to become one of the thirteen Fées Gardiennes, a centuries-old sisterhood of fairy godmothers. To be granted full status, she must usher her first protégé onto their path of destiny. Where better to find a starry-eyed ward than in the land of magic and illusion called Hollywood? It’s 1927. The moviemaking business is booming when Celeste befriends a young studio seamstress whose dreams outshine everyone else’s. Rose is talented and underappreciated and could use some enchanted intervention in her life.

From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a...

A boy the size of his father's thumb has a series of adventures, including stopping a pair of thieves, being swallowed by a cow, and tricking a wolf into bringing him back home.

Lengyel Dénes mondagyűjteménye a teljes középkori magyar történelmet felöleli. Hun-magyar mondák, a honfoglalás, az államalapítás, majd az Árpádok és a Hunyadiak kora, valamint a török idők és a Rákóczi-szabadságharc eseményei elevenednek meg a 33 monda mindegyikében. A felejthetetlen Kaszás Attila előadása hűen őrzi a korabeli források nyelvi zamatát, hangulatát.