Brothers Grimm Fairy Stories.pdf (eBook)

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The Brothers Grimm were Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, who both were German academics, linguists and cultural researchers. They collected old folk tales and published them under the tittle Grimm's Fairy Tales. More or less like H.C. Andersen's, their works became very popular before the modern fantasy and fairy tales emerged. Probably, the Grimms differed from Andersen in the sense on the darkness of their tales. In the original version, the brothers' stories were a lot gloomier than the Disney version. Some of the most notable among those tales are Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White.

Contents of this book:
01. The Goose-Girl
02. The Little Brother and Sister
03. Hansel and Grethel
04. Oh, If I Could but Shiver!
05. Dummling and the Three Feathers
06. Little Snow White
07. Catherine and Frederick
08. The Valliant Little Tailor
09. Little Red Cap
10. The Golden Goose
11. Bearskin
12. Cinderella
13. Faithful John
13. The Water of Life
14. Thumbling
15. Briar Rose
16. The Six Swans
17. Rapunzel
18. Mother Holle
19. The Frog Prince
20. The Travels of Tom Thumb
21. Snow-White and Rose-Red
22. The Three Little Men in the Wood
23. Rumpelstiltskin
24. Little One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes

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H.C. Andersen - Short Stories.pdf (eBook)

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Hans Christian Andersen was probably the biggest Danish, or even world, author on fairy tales, poets, and short stories for children. Before modern literature invented its own fairy tales and children stories, Andersen's (and also the Grimms') works were probably the only kid fantasies that went universal. Translated and adapted into many countries in more than a hundred languages. The stories reached their audience not only through printed books, since they also influenced plays, ballets, and motion pictures.

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Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.pdf (eBook)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.pdf eBook | Author: Roald Dahl | PDF Pages: 52 | File Size: 0.3 MB |

Willy Wonka is the owner of the most famous and successful chocolate factory in the world. He runs a competition by giving five Golden Ticket and the lucky ones will get the chance to explore his magical chocolate factory.

Charlie Bucket gets the last ticket, in a very fortunate way. Charlie is poor boy who lives in a small, beat-up house with his parents and his four grandparents. Since both Charlie's parents are unable to accompany him to the factory, the opportunity to explore the factory with the kid winner then falls to Charlie’s oldest and most beloved Grandpa Joe. Grandpa Joe jumps from the bed for the first time in decades and Charlie’s luck makes him energetic and almost childlike. So, go the two of them in an adventure in the Willy Wonka factory tour. A tour that reveals the true person and character of that chocolate and candy king.

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Lewis Caroll - Alice In Wonderland.pdf (eBook)

"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Caroll | PDF Pages: 51 | File Size: 1MB |

Another work that actually doesn't require any further introduction. Especially after "Alice In Wonderland" brought to the big screen beautifully by Tim Burton. However, just in case any of you is not familiar yet with this particular Lewis Caroll's everlasting children fantasy masterpiece, then here's a little bit for you.

Alice is very bored on the river bank, and ot of the blue she sees a White Rabbit walking, mumbling, and looking at his watch. Alice follows the Rabbit down a rabbit hole and she lands in a hall with a tiny locked door that to a beautiful garden. She meets many creatures (the Rabbit, a Mouse, a Cartepilar) and eats many things that turns her body into gigantic or tiny size. However it takes her a long time and journey to get the right size for her to get into the garden.

She then meets a Duchess, her ugly baby, her hostile Cook, and her Cheshire Cat in the woods. Alice tries to save the baby, but the baby turns into a pig. The Cheshire Cat appears and tells her to visit the Mad Hatter or the March Hare. Then Alice arrives at the table with the Hare, the Hatter, and the Dormouse in a tea party. They are rude so Alice leaves. She goes through a door in a tree and gets into the room with the tiny door leading to the garden. This time she manages to get into the garden.

She meets three gardeners painting white roses red. They are afraid of being executed by the Queen of Hearts. Suddenly the Queen appear and invites Alice to play croquet, and Alice joins a very strange game. She then learns that the Duchess is to be executed. The Duchess is brought from prison and begins talking with Alice about the moral of everything. The Queen asks Alice to meet the Mock Turtle, escorted by the Gryphon. Alice learns the Mock Turtle's history and sees a dance called the Lobster Quadrille. Alice again tries to recite poetry with little success.

The Gryphon takes Alice back to court. The Knave of Hearts is on trial for stealing the Queen's tarts. Alice is called to testify after she grows larger again. The King orders her to leave the court, but she refuses. She is outraged by the unfairness of the court's proceedings and provokes the Queen to order her execution. The cards rise up and attack Alice. At this point, Alice realizes that she has been asleep for a long time in her sister's lap. She tells her sister about the events of her marvelous dream and then goes in to tea. Her sister is captivated by the dream and imagines Alice as a grown woman who will still have a child-like sense of wonder.
(Sum up from BookRags.com)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes From Underground.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 85 | File Size: 1 MB |

A Customer Review at Amazon.com (82 of 93 people found the following review helpful; 5 out of 5 stars):

Dostoevsky has written an amazing portrait of a loner, whose introverted, sick thoughts spill out on the pages in demented brilliance. The novel is a product of European cynicism, nihilism, and inertia, all of which reached a certain height in the paralyzed upper circles of 19th century Russia...The main character, who does nothing except hide from the world, is a total misfit, a loser in life at home, at work, and in love--a jerk, a dweeb, a dork, a geek in modern American parlance--yet through Dostoyevsky's clear prose, we see into his wounded soul...He is apart from society, recognizes no social obligation. He argues that suffering is still better than mere consciousness, because it sharpens the awareness of your being, therefore suffering is in man's interest...This is in fact not an average novel at all, but a book concerned with the play of ideas, ideas that flash around like comets and meteorites inside Dostoevsky's head.

The plot line...concerns an underground man, a man like a rat or a bug, who lives outside, or more likely, underneath the world's gaze. It is a lonely, tortured life lived inside a single skull with almost no contacts with the rest of the world except for a vicious servant. The "action" of the book comes only when the protagonist worms his way into a dinner with former schoolmates. They don't want him, he despises all of them. So, as you can imagine, a good time is had by all. The underground man winds up in a brothel with an innocent, hapless prostitute named Liza. He wishes for some relationship, he immediately abhors the very thought of contact with another person. The result is worse than you can predict, though I will say that it involves "the beneficial nature of insults and hatred".

In the tradition of novels of introspective self-hatred, Dostoevsky's has to be one of the first...I realized how much Dostoevsky had influenced the Japanese writers of the 20th century...some of these characteristics are found in almost everyone at some point in their life, unpleasant as that realization may be. I have to give NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND five stars, though I can't say I enjoyed it. It is simply one of the most impressive novels ever written.

Robert S. Newman "Bob Newman"

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Aldous Huxley - Brave New World.pdf (eBook)

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A Customer Review at Amazon.com (429 of 487 people found the following review helpful. 5 out of 5 stars):

As critic and best-selling author Neil Postman points out so well in the introduction to his book "Amusing Ourselves To Death", we have congratulated ourselves prematurely by figuring we made it past the totalitarian nightmare state depicted in George Orwell's gripping cautionary tale "1984". Perhaps, Postman suggest, we should remember another visionary totalitarian nightmare scenario and use it to critically examine the contemporary state of social and psychological well-being. Of course he was referring to Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World, written before Orwell's by 15 or so years, and even more frightening in its own way in the world it describes. More and more, that frightening vision looks like our contemporary world.

Picture his ironic portrait of a populace doped into Nirvana on "soma" (read Prozac and Zoloft), isolated and diverted by petty preoccupations in mindless trivial pursuits (read video games and internet surfing to all the porno sites), oblivious to anything not directly pertaining to themselves and totally unaware of the degree to which they are being socially, economically, and politically co-opted. Beginning to sound more familiar? Remember, says Huxley, brute force is not the only method an oligarchy can use to influence, manage, and finally control our hard-won freedoms and liberties; it can be done with over-indulgence and the deliberate fertilization and promulgation of apathy through self-absorption, as well.

Even Huxley says (circa 1960, almost 30 years after the original publication) in the preface of the revised version of the book that he is alarmed as to how quickly the sort of events he figured might take a hundred years such as the appearance of political internationalism and transnational corporate entities are already arising and beginning to control more and more of the substance of our social, economic, and political lives. . .

Want to find out more? Read this book, but do so slowly, taking notes, recognizing how many contemporary parallels there are to each of the "whimsical details" he conjures up, and then figure out in your own mind how very close he was to prognosticating just how far we have come toward the "Brave New World" in which everyone's soul and awareness is for sale . . .
(by Barron Laycock "Labradorman")

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Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones Diary.pdf (eBook)

"Bridget Jones Diary" by Helen Fielding | PDF Pages: 82 | File Size: 1 MB |

This is the diary of Bridget Jones, a character created by Helen Fielding. And in her diary, she tells readers about her daily personal life as a single thirty-something woman and how she deals with the daily activities as a working woman in London. The way Helen Fielding, as Bridget Jones off course, captures the day-in-day-out events is often often humorous, if not silly. She presents everything a career single woman cares about in the ramblings: career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and, last but not least romantic relationships.

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George Orwell - Animal Farm.pdf (eBook)

"Animal Farm" by George Orwell | PDF Pages: 55 | File Size: 1 MB. |

Orwell presented a Dystopian allegory very sharply in this particular novel and captured the going-ons in the Stalin Era before World War II broke out. Through his Animal Farm novel, he didn't not only address the revolution leaders' corruption but also how the utopia of a better world was destroyed by wickedness, ignorance, and greed.

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Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.pdf (eBook)

PDF Pages: 823 | File Size: 3 MB |

Editorial Review at Amazon.com:

'The first great English novel about the class war, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is spiked, witty, humorous, instructive and full of excitement, harmony and pathos.' Alan Sillitoe 'Some books seem to batter their way to immortality against all the odds, by sheer brute artistic strength, and high up in this curious and honourable company must be counted The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Robert Tressell's unfailing humour mixes with an unfailing rage and the two together make a truly Swiftian impact.' Evening Standard Robert Tressell has complete familiarity with the idiom of his characters. His language is bizarre, vital, highly inventive and precisely heard -- it is a complete and living archaeology of the speech of a particular human group. A brilliant and very funny book.'--Spectator Magazine

A Custoer Review at Amazon.com (30 of 31 people found the following review helpful):

This makes powerful reading. My sense from the start was that the story wasn't fiction outside the names of those peopling it, but in fact the author's own experience of life endured by the working class in England at the turn of 1900. That in itself made it fascinating.

At times I felt the author's rants about the evils of capitalism and the working class being their own worst enemy tiresome (if true), but then I realised his frustration with the mindset of those he spent his working life with would have made him feel the need to rave. What could be worse than spending your every working day in the company of miserable forelock-tuggers, men who at once idolised and hated their masters, and hated themselves even more. We see much of this frustration in the character Owen and his contempt for his fellow workers for regarding their state of starvation and wretched poverty as a privilege and are fiercely committed to preserving the system that keeps them downtrodden. . .

When a used-to-be Socialist tells Barrington 'enlightenment will never be brought about by arguing with people,' I couldn't have agreed more. While Barrington took this on board as dishearteningly true, delightfully, it didn't take the fight out of him. . .
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Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - Good Omens.pdf (eBook)

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"The end is nigh!" No, "nigh" is not the right term. "The end is ALREADY HERE!" All the "key players" are already on earth, if not are always on earth, and now they are on the move to bring the one-and-only Apocalypse. The Four Horsemen are assembling (War, Famine, Pollution, and Death) and most important and long waited figure is on the brink of revealing his earth-destroying power. Who is that? It's none other than the Antichrist himself, now in the form of eleven-year-old Adam Young, the respected leader of Them, a group of "a kid gang" feared by other kids in their local neighborhood.

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J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit .pdf (eBook)

"The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbits" by J.R.R. Tolkien | PDF Pages: 1.347 | File Size: 13MB |     

Do you still need explanation and introduction for this one? Especially after this particular Tolkien's masterpiece was brought into live in The Lord of the Rings trilogy movies? If you do, then here's the shortest big line.

This is actually (or at least meant by the author as) a single novel, but it published into three volumes, namely The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. While The Hobbit is a stand alone novel, of which story is the background of the events found in the trilogy.

The story is about of hobbit named Frodo Baggins who unluckily inherited a magic ring, The One Ring, from his Uncle Bilbo Baggins. The ring was once belonged to a powerful evil and a wanna-be-world-single-ruler, Sauron. Some hundred years before Frodo's time, Sauron and his orc army were defeated by the alliance force of Middle Earth (the elves, dwarves, and humans). Although Sauron no longer has bodily existence, he is not dead yet and with some helps, he is ready to make his "come back" and all he needs is that One Ring.

To prevent Sauron from claiming that ring, Frodo has to destroy it in the crater of Mount Doom, Sauron's homeland. To make that journey slightly possible, Frodo is accompanied by the Fellowship of the Ring, consist of representations from every race inhabits Middle Earth, such as Gandalf the wizard, Aragorn the ranger (and prince), Legolas the elf, Gimli the Dwarf, and some others. Along the way, Frodo meets the previous bearer of the ring, Gollum, who becomes his guide to reach Mordor. And during that journey, the evilness of One Ring slowly but surely begins consuming Frodo. While at the same time, the rest of the Fellowship members, after got separated from Frodo the ring bearer, are holding their ground in a massive war against the orcs of Saruman and also the army of Mordor.

This epic novel, especially its setting and the races in Middle Earth, has become the foundation of modern works dealing with fantasy or mythology stories, even games.

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Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird.pdf (eBook)

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee visualized many issues and perspectives that existed during the Great Depression. Although the novel takes a fictional town as its setting (Maycomb, Alabama), all that Lee captured and told in the story is nothing but the actual and factual situation in America during the Great Depression. Through main character, the six-year-old Scout Finch, is the narrator and she brings readers to experience the life of a "dying town" where job was hard to find, economy was at the most difficult point, and social norms, especially regarding racial issues or stereotypes, were on a turning point.

Those are seriously serious matters, but the way Harper Lee wrote took readers' views through "the eyes" of Scout Finch makes the story warm and sometimes amusing. Scout Finch's father, Atticus, is lawyer and recently took he a case to defend an African American who was mistakenly being accused of raping a white girl. Both Scout and Atticus are on missions dealing with social discrimination and stereotype. While her father is trying to "fight against" the racial perspective of the society, Scout and her older brother, Jem, are on their own case to reveal the mysterious character of Boo, their neighbor, who is being viewed as "monster" in their neighborhood.

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Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha.pdf (eBook)

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In the novel, Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near despair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of his life -- the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace, and, finally, wisdom.

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George Orwell - 1984.pdf (eBook)

1984.pdf eBook | Author: George Orwell | PDF Pages: 112 | File Size: 1MB |

In his novel, 1984, George Orwell took totalitarian as the main the theme, the possibility of it and its threats toward the live of a society. In the totalitarian society of 1984, there's no truth except what the "Big Brother" said. The term freedom only has one meaning, which is total surrender to the Party, and love is a concept so unfamiliar, except off course the love for the Party.

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T. Jefferson Parker - Storm Runners.pdf (eBook)

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T. Jefferson Parker is considered as a member among "the first rank of American crime novelists" (as stated by Washington Post Book World) and praised for "some of the finest writing you'll ever read" (by Chicago Sun-Times). His works are excellently built, involving complicated emotional, and full of breath-taking action. Storm Runners is no difference and it shows the reason why Parker's novels are irresistible.

Plot:
Losing her love ones, his wife and son, in an explosion has left Matt Stromsoe deep scars, in body and spirit. Those are the kind of scars that heal and this makes Stromsoe give up the only thing meant for him that's still left, his job as a police force. He does that so he can move on to the next step, which is to hit rock bottom, hard.

It has long way passed and finally the free-fall into destruction and despair apparently is coming to its end. The murderer of his family, who turned out to be his childhood best friend and his wife ex, is already in jail. Matt Stromsoe tried to let go of the past for sure and he gets aid from a former colleague who gives him a job in private security business. His first assignment is being an escort for a local television personality, Frankie Hatfield, who lately have been stalked. Sight unseen, along with the proceeding of his job as bodyguard, he gets some clues that the complications of matters at hand is so twisted wide and ultimately leads back to the man who killed his family. Things go against him and he soon learn that prison is no safeguard against revenge.

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Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting.pdf (eBook)

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This novel is the debut of the Scottish author, Irvine Welsh, and he surly doesn't try to hide that he's Scottish. The accent used in the novel, unless you're at least British, is so unfamiliar, and also the culture, or sub-culture to be precise.

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