Many changes through the editions were probably made with an eye to such suitability. But for almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children — and adults — learn about the vagaries of the real world.
The tale centers around a black cat and the subsequent deterioration of a man. The story is often linked with "The Tell-Tale Heart" because of the profound psychological elements these two works share. The two main characters in "The Devoted Friend" are a poor man known as little Hans and a rich Miller. The Miller claims to be a devoted friend of little Hans. In truth, he selfishly takes advantage of little Hans at every opportunity.
Little Hans' desire to remain the Miller's friend ultimately proves fatal for him. The unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges of the Spanish Inquisition. He is condemned to death, whereupon he faints and later awakens to find himself in a totally dark room. He explores the cell and soon finds a pit. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.
In order to save her father's life, Belle has no choice but to go the Beast's palace and live with him. But will she learn there's more to this monster than first meets the eye?
That charming 18th-century tale of the transforming power of love has enchanted generations of readers and listeners down to the present day. Scott Fitzgerald's readers had come to expect by the end of the Jazz Age.
At fifty, Tom is attracted as much to Annie Lorry's age as to her beauty or social status. She longs to marry. She is too rarefied to love a working man, too sensitive to enjoy her power and privileges ruthlessly, too fearful to effect social change, too newly-rich to escape snubbing. Published from to , Household Words featured as its main attraction during the Christmas season a lengthy short story penned by Dickens himself.
One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved husband a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure -- her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells the story of a young couple and the sacrifices each must make to buy the other a gift.
A simple tale about the rewards of unselfish love. Ambrose Bierce never owned a horse, a carriage, or a car; he was a renter who never owned his own home.
He was a man on the move, a man who traveled light: and in the end he rode, with all of his possessions, on a rented horse into the Mexican desert to join Pancho Villa -- never to return.
Can Such Things Be? Prepare yourself for the shocking, the strange, and the terrifying in Ambrose Bierce's story collection of the supernatural and the unexplained. Professor von Baumgarten, an expert about mesmerism and spirits, is convinced that the spirit of hypnotized people can leave the body, travel around and come back at will.
For him, the only way to prove the phenomenon is to be hypnotized at the same time than another hypnotized person and observe by himself. He asks one of his student, Fritz von Hartmann, to assist him in this experiment. And amusing short story by the father of Sherlock Holmes.
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