Nimm dich vor dunklen Friedhofsecken in Acht … … denn die Untoten haben es auf uns Lebende abgesehen. Ganz gleich ob rumänischer Vampir, chinesischer Wiedergänger oder australischer Dämon – sie alle dürstet es nach unserem Blut und unserer Seele. Seit Anbeginn der Zeit erheben sie sich aus ihren Gräbern, um uns heimzusuchen. Und viele von ihnen können ihre Gestalt verändern, sich unsichtbar machen oder sich in Rauch und Nebel verwandeln. Also aufgepasst: In jeder Katze, jeder Pflanze und selbst dem Morgentau könnte ein Untoter stecken …
This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Galactic Patrol is a combination military force and interstellar law-enforcement agency, charged with the defense and preservation of Civilization. However, Kinnison and Clarissa MacDougall become the penultimates of the human breeding program the Arisians had set up many eons earlier…
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children about the mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. The setting of the story is the Tuscan area of Italy. Geppetto carves the block of pinewood into a puppet and names him «Pinocchio». As soon as Pinocchio's nose has been carved, it begins to grow with his congenital impudence. Before he is even built, Pinocchio already has a mischievous attitude. Once the puppet has been finished and Geppetto teaches him to walk, Pinocchio runs out the door and away into the town. Pinocchio goes through numerous adventures and misadventures before he turns into a real boy. A universal icon and a metaphor of the human condition, the book is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has had great impact on world culture.
This eBook edition of «A Little Book of Christmas (Illustrated Edition)» has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.
Table of Contents:
A Toast To Santa Clause
The Conversion of Hetherington
A Merry Christmas Pie
The Child Who Had Everything But
A Holiday Wish
Santa Clause and Little Billee
Christmas Eve
The House of the Seven Santas
Extract:
"He was only a little bit of a chap, and so, when for the first time in his life he came into close contact with the endless current of human things, it was as hard for him to «stay put» as for some wayward little atom of flotsam and jetsam to keep from tossing about in the surging tides of the sea. His mother had left him there in the big toy-shop, with instructions not to move until she came back, while she went off to do some mysterious errand. She thought, no doubt, that with so many beautiful things on every side to delight his eye and hold his attention, strict obedience to her commands would not be hard."
John Kendrick Bangs (1862-1922) was an American author, editor and satirist.
"Seven Little Australians" tells the story of the adventures of seven mischievous Woolcot children, their stern father, and flighty stepmother Esther, living in Sydney in the 1880s. Mr. Woolcot is an army Captain who has little understanding of his children, and their 20-year-old stepmother Esther can exert little discipline on them as they wreak havoc wherever possible. After a children's prank, when they embarrass Captain Woolcot at his military barracks, he orders that ringleader Judy be sent away to boarding school in the Blue Mountains and tries to be even more strict, but children always find the way to the next adventure.
This unique edition of the greatest russian fairytales & fables has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Russians very well know how to weave intriguing stories that keep readers hooked till the end. This ebook represents a thoughtful and beautifully illustrated collection of some of the finest Russian fairy and folk tales for people of all ages: Picture Fables for the Little Ones: The Cock and the Bean The Goat and the Ram The Hungry Wolf The Peasant and the Bear The Dog and the Cock King Frost The Bear's Paw The Bear and the Old Man's Daughters The Straw Ox The Fox and the Blackbird Fairy Tales: Snegorotchka Fire Bird Winged Wolf Self-Playing Harp Seven Brothers Ivan Story of the Golden Mountain Robber Nightingale Renowned Hero Mild Man Duck with Golden Eggs Bulat the Brave Tsarevich and Ivashka with White Smock Knight Yaroslav and Princess Anastasia The Golden Mountain Morozko Flying Ship Muzhichek-As-Big-As-Your-Thumb Tsarevich Ivan Tale of Little Fool Ivan Little Feather of Fenist Peasant Demyan Enchanted Ring Brave Labourer Sage Damsel Prophetic Dream Two Out of the Knapsack Marko and Vasily Muscovite Folk Tales: The Fiend The Dead Mother The Dead Witch The Treasure The Cross-Surety The Awful Drunkard The Bad Wife The Golovikha The Three Copecks The Miser The Fool and the Birch-Tree The Mizgir The Smith and the Demon Ivan Popyalof The Norka Marya Morevna Koshchei the Deathless The Water Snake The Water King and Vasilissa the Wise The Baba Yaga Vasilissa the Fair The Witch The Witch and the Sun's Sister Emilian the Fool Witch Girl Headless Princess Soldier's Midnight Watch Warlock Fox-Physician Fiddler in Hell Ride on the Gravestone Two Friends Shroud Coffin-Lid Two Corpses Dog and the Corpse Soldier and the Vampire .....