“England, My England” — a collection of stories by one of the leading British writers D. H. Lawrence. The author’s world views were essentially influenced by the events of the First World war which he condemned as a manifestation of the extreme insanity, trying in his works to propound the recipe of salvation. In particular, the writer reckoned that a man should defer to his own inner desires and feelings and saw the solution in setting free instinctive energy. Just because of it, all the stories of the collection are about love, initial, sensual and passionate; about relations in which “he” and “she” ...
Stories from the Odyssey relates three adventures of Odysseus and his crew on their ten-year journey home to Ithaca (off the western coast of mainland Greece) after the Trojan War of around 1200 BC. In the first story they are in great danger from the man-eating giant, the Cyclops. Odysseus is clever, plays a trick on the Cyclops and they escape.
Sing to Win - Bookworms 'Sing to Win' is the biggest programme on TV — everyone watches it and every singer wants to win it. Sofia loves singing, so she goes to an audition for Sing to Win — and makes friends with Emma. Emma is a very good singer, too, and soon there are stories about the two friends on TV and online
Dictionary Stories: Short Fictions and Other Findings
Jez Burrows opened the New Oxford American Dictionary and sat, mystified. Instead of the definition of "study" he was looking for, he found himself drawn to the strangely conspicuous, curiously melodramatic sentence that followed it: "He perched on the edge of the bed, a study in confusion and misery." It read like a tiny piece of fiction on the lam and hiding out in the dictionary—and it wasn't alone. Was it possible to reunite these fugitive fictions? To combine and remix example sentences to form new works? With this spark and a handful of stories shared online, Dictionary Stories was born.
A Pair of Ghostly Hands and Other Stories - Bookworms 3
You are alone in the house, ad you know you turned the tap off. What do you do then?The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise
