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Tuomo sedän tupaHarriet Beecher Stowe Tuomo sedän tupa Esipuhe Nuori lukijani! Varmaankin olet kuullut puhuttavan neekereistä Pohjois-Amerikan Yhdysvalloissa. Neekerit ovat, kuten tiedät, kotoisin Afrikasta, mutta kun Amerikassa tarvittiin työvoimia, tuotiin heitä sinne joukottain suurilla laivoi...

PoemsWilliam D. Howells Poems THE PILOT’S STORY I It was a story the pilot told, with his back to his hearers,–Keeping his hand on the wheel and his eye on the globe of the jack-staff,Holding the boat to the shore and out of the sweep of the current,Lightly turning aside for the heavy logs of the...

Rose o' the RiverKate Douglas Wiggin Rose o' the River THE PINE AND THE ROSE It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.An early ablution of this sort was...

Five Minutes' StoriesMrs. Molesworth Five Minutes' Stories ABDALLAH THE UNHAPPY A GREAT many years ago there dwelt in a city of the East, of which you have never heard the name, a wise and holy man. He was highly esteemed by his fellow citizens, for he was kind and benevolent, never refusing good...

The Children's Book of StarsG.E. Mitton The Children's Book of Stars PREFACE It was the intention of the late Agnes Clerke to write the preface to this 'Children's Book of Stars.' Miss Clerke took a warm and sympathetic interest in the authoress and her work, but her lamented death occurred befor...

The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the UnseenDoyle Arthur Conan The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen I THE BROWN HAND Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his death changed ...

Joshua MarvelCHAPTER I. CONCERNING CERTAIN FAMILY CONVERSATIONS AND THEIR RESULTCHAPTER II. SHOWING HOW A PASSION FOR PUNCH AND JUDY MAY LEAD TO DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCESCHAPTER III. LIFE AND DEATH OF GOLDEN CLOUDCHAPTER IV. IN WHICH DAN GETS WILD NOTIONS INTO HIS HEAD, AND MAKES SOME VERY BOYISH E...

Demonien ruhtinatarNikolai Vasilevich Gogol Demonien ruhtinatar / Kertomus ESIPUHE Nikolai Vasiljevuitsh Gogol on saanut osakseen mainetta ja ihailua Venäjän kirjallisuuden realistisen suunnan varsinaisena uranuurtajana, venäläisen draaman luojana, ja maansa kirjallisuuden kenties suurimpana ja t...

One of the 28th: A Tale of WaterlooG. A. Henty One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo PREFACE Although in the present story a boy plays the principal part, and encounters many adventures by land and sea, a woman is the real heroine, and the part she played demanded an amount of nerve and courage ful...

Peter and WendyJames Matthew Barrie Peter and Wendy CHAPTER I PETER BREAKS THROUGH All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with...