📗 The Oblong Box
👤 Edgar Allan Poe
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
I looked at the list of the passengers' names – there was one name on the list that I knew – Cornelius Wyatt. Cornelius was an artist. He painted pictures. I was very glad to see Cornelius, but he didn't want to speak to me and he locked at his room. Cornelius arrived to ship with his wife and sister, but he also booked a third room, where he put some oblong box.What is in this strange oblong box? Why Cornelius behaves so bad?
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👤 Edgar Allan Poe
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
I looked at the list of the passengers' names – there was one name on the list that I knew – Cornelius Wyatt. Cornelius was an artist. He painted pictures. I was very glad to see Cornelius, but he didn't want to speak to me and he locked at his room. Cornelius arrived to ship with his wife and sister, but he also booked a third room, where he put some oblong box.What is in this strange oblong box? Why Cornelius behaves so bad?
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📗 The Lost Phoebe
👤 Clare Gray
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Henry and Phoebe loved each other. They were middle - aged people and lived together for many years. They were farmers. Their whole world was a field of harvest, fruit trees and a large yard with pets and birds. Henry and Phoebe lived happily. The spouses often quarreled, like any couple. The wife threatened to leave Henry, but he understood it was not serious.
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👤 Clare Gray
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Henry and Phoebe loved each other. They were middle - aged people and lived together for many years. They were farmers. Their whole world was a field of harvest, fruit trees and a large yard with pets and birds. Henry and Phoebe lived happily. The spouses often quarreled, like any couple. The wife threatened to leave Henry, but he understood it was not serious.
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📗 Fenrir's Chain
👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Fenrir was a huge wolf. God Tyr loved to play with him when Fenrir was a cub. But he grew and became bigger and stronger. The gods realized that Fenrir was too dangerous and could kill all of them. They decided to tie the wolf so that he could not harm anyone. But which chain on earth would be able to hold such a monster? The gods went to the dwarves who made the hammer of Thor and lots of other incredible things.
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👤 Chris Rose
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Fenrir was a huge wolf. God Tyr loved to play with him when Fenrir was a cub. But he grew and became bigger and stronger. The gods realized that Fenrir was too dangerous and could kill all of them. They decided to tie the wolf so that he could not harm anyone. But which chain on earth would be able to hold such a monster? The gods went to the dwarves who made the hammer of Thor and lots of other incredible things.
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📗 An African Story
👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The man was preparing to become a pilot. Once he took a plane and flew to watch wild animals during maneuvering exercises in the sky. He damaged the wing of the plane, but was able to return to the airport. The next time the pilot was unlucky - the aircraft's engine died out and he had to make an emergency landing. He saw a small hut and went to her. There lived an old man who grew food. He warmly welcomed the pilot and allowed him to live in his hut.
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👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The man was preparing to become a pilot. Once he took a plane and flew to watch wild animals during maneuvering exercises in the sky. He damaged the wing of the plane, but was able to return to the airport. The next time the pilot was unlucky - the aircraft's engine died out and he had to make an emergency landing. He saw a small hut and went to her. There lived an old man who grew food. He warmly welcomed the pilot and allowed him to live in his hut.
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📗 The Hound of the Baskervilles
👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This legend has been passing from age to age of Baskervilles family. Two hundreds years ago at Baskerville Hall near bog was living Sir Hugo Baskerville. He was an aristocrat, alcoholic and rowdy. Once he was killed by a big black dog with shining eyes and mouth nearby of bogs. This dog punished his evil. Put a point in this deadly history would try Sherlock Holms.
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👤 Conan Doyle
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This legend has been passing from age to age of Baskervilles family. Two hundreds years ago at Baskerville Hall near bog was living Sir Hugo Baskerville. He was an aristocrat, alcoholic and rowdy. Once he was killed by a big black dog with shining eyes and mouth nearby of bogs. This dog punished his evil. Put a point in this deadly history would try Sherlock Holms.
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📗 The True Story of Pocahontas
👤 Kelly Reinhart
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a story about a strong love that would overcome all obstacles and even stop a bloody war. Pocahontas was a native chief's daughter. She was eleven when, sitting on the top of a cliff, she saw a big ship in the sea approaching the coast. The ship was full of white people who were searching for gold in the New World. All native tribes were certain that war was upon them and would start as soon as the ship would reach the land.
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👤 Kelly Reinhart
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is a story about a strong love that would overcome all obstacles and even stop a bloody war. Pocahontas was a native chief's daughter. She was eleven when, sitting on the top of a cliff, she saw a big ship in the sea approaching the coast. The ship was full of white people who were searching for gold in the New World. All native tribes were certain that war was upon them and would start as soon as the ship would reach the land.
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📗 Casualty
👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Gail is a nurse in the casualty department. A man has been severely injured in a car crash. His face is unrecognizable, but there is information that he's a famous rock star Alex Hayle. The singer is supposed to be on concert tour worth10 million pounds. But instead of it he's in a coma and the doctors say his condition is serious.
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👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Gail is a nurse in the casualty department. A man has been severely injured in a car crash. His face is unrecognizable, but there is information that he's a famous rock star Alex Hayle. The singer is supposed to be on concert tour worth10 million pounds. But instead of it he's in a coma and the doctors say his condition is serious.
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📗 Strawberry and the Sensations
👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
How do you live when you are a vocalist of a famous rock band? The hall is full, the fans are excited and you see the bright light of the spotlights and hear the rich sound of an electric guitar. But shortly before the concert a policeman arrives. He warns: there will be a psychopathic killer in the hall. What should the band do? Cancel the show? Or risk everything and give the fans what they are waiting for?
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👤 Peter Viney
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
How do you live when you are a vocalist of a famous rock band? The hall is full, the fans are excited and you see the bright light of the spotlights and hear the rich sound of an electric guitar. But shortly before the concert a policeman arrives. He warns: there will be a psychopathic killer in the hall. What should the band do? Cancel the show? Or risk everything and give the fans what they are waiting for?
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📗 The Way up to Heaven
👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Mrs. Foster was terrified of any delay. Either it was being late for a plane, a ship, a train or simply a curtain in a theater rising before she came to the auditorium. The woman left the house half an hour earlier than needed to go the train station. She took the hat, the umbrella and the gloves. But for Mr. Foster, his wife's behavior was annoying and he could not understand her.
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👤 Roald Dahl
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Mrs. Foster was terrified of any delay. Either it was being late for a plane, a ship, a train or simply a curtain in a theater rising before she came to the auditorium. The woman left the house half an hour earlier than needed to go the train station. She took the hat, the umbrella and the gloves. But for Mr. Foster, his wife's behavior was annoying and he could not understand her.
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📗 Finders Keeprs
👤 Brennan Frank
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Harry has always loved archeology: he adored ancient things with the age of hundreds and thousands years. The university often sent him to make a research when another ancient artifact was found somewhere. But Harry didn't like that valuables would crouch in museums. He kept for himself small things that others did not know about. The thief has accumulated a large collection of stolen antiquities.
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👤 Brennan Frank
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Harry has always loved archeology: he adored ancient things with the age of hundreds and thousands years. The university often sent him to make a research when another ancient artifact was found somewhere. But Harry didn't like that valuables would crouch in museums. He kept for himself small things that others did not know about. The thief has accumulated a large collection of stolen antiquities.
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📗 Casting the Runes
👤 M. R. James
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The storyline of the book takes place in the early twentieth century. The plot begins with a correspondence between two people. These are Mr. Karswell and Secretary Gayton. Mr. Karswell sends an article to the club. Mr. Karswell considers himself an alchemist. He is very rich - that's all people know about him. Most believe that this person either tells a lie, or believes in something that does not exist.
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👤 M. R. James
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The storyline of the book takes place in the early twentieth century. The plot begins with a correspondence between two people. These are Mr. Karswell and Secretary Gayton. Mr. Karswell sends an article to the club. Mr. Karswell considers himself an alchemist. He is very rich - that's all people know about him. Most believe that this person either tells a lie, or believes in something that does not exist.
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📗 The Charm
👤 Jan Carew
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
People usually said about the main character of this book that he was a brave man and he was never afraid of anything. They were wrong. He really was brave, but he knew what fear was, like other people. One day he went home for a week and helped the old man cross the road when all the other people passed by. His life was changed after that.
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👤 Jan Carew
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
People usually said about the main character of this book that he was a brave man and he was never afraid of anything. They were wrong. He really was brave, but he knew what fear was, like other people. One day he went home for a week and helped the old man cross the road when all the other people passed by. His life was changed after that.
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📗 Jennifer Lopez
👤 Rod Smith
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
A heroine of this story is a Latin American girl from a poor American emigrant family. She reached the tops in the show business, cinema and garment business. It was thanks to her nature talent and enormous diligence. Nowadays Jennifer Lopez is a recognized queen of pop music who drives men crazy around the world with her bright beauty.
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👤 Rod Smith
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
A heroine of this story is a Latin American girl from a poor American emigrant family. She reached the tops in the show business, cinema and garment business. It was thanks to her nature talent and enormous diligence. Nowadays Jennifer Lopez is a recognized queen of pop music who drives men crazy around the world with her bright beauty.
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📗 The Lady in the Lake
👤 Raymond Chandler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
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👤 Raymond Chandler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
In The Lady in the Lake, hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of missing wives—one a rich man's and one a poor man's—who have become the objects of Philip Marlowe's investigation. One of them may have gotten a Mexican divorce and married a gigolo and the other may be dead. Marlowe's not sure he cares about either one, but he's not paid to care.
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📗 The Legend of Johnny Appleseed
👤 George Gibson
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
In adolescence, Johnny worked as a missionary and brought many Indians to Christianity. At the age of 26, he saw an angel in a dream. The angel ordered him to go throught America and plant apple seeds. This seemed a good deed to him. He took a large bag of apple kernels, a Bible, and Aesop's Fables. That was all Johny needed on the way.
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👤 George Gibson
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
In adolescence, Johnny worked as a missionary and brought many Indians to Christianity. At the age of 26, he saw an angel in a dream. The angel ordered him to go throught America and plant apple seeds. This seemed a good deed to him. He took a large bag of apple kernels, a Bible, and Aesop's Fables. That was all Johny needed on the way.
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📗 Man-size in Marble
👤 Bill Bowler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The main character of this book is Jack Collis. When he got engaged to Laura, he knew that their young family would not have much money. On their wedding day, they found a perfect house in a small village near the coast. The house was two miles away from the village. It turned out to be incredibly cheap. The newlyweds immediately decided to rent it on the same day.
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👤 Bill Bowler
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
The main character of this book is Jack Collis. When he got engaged to Laura, he knew that their young family would not have much money. On their wedding day, they found a perfect house in a small village near the coast. The house was two miles away from the village. It turned out to be incredibly cheap. The newlyweds immediately decided to rent it on the same day.
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📗 The Birthmark
👤 Nathaniel Hawthorne
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Aylmer sincerely loved his spouse, but still science remained the main passion of the young man. One day, he looked at his wife and asked if she knew that he could remove the birthmark from her cheek. This mole looked like a small handprint. Her parents said that the fairy stroked her cheek in the childhood. Even after this Aylmer did not calm down. He became obsessed with the birthmark.
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👤 Nathaniel Hawthorne
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Aylmer sincerely loved his spouse, but still science remained the main passion of the young man. One day, he looked at his wife and asked if she knew that he could remove the birthmark from her cheek. This mole looked like a small handprint. Her parents said that the fairy stroked her cheek in the childhood. Even after this Aylmer did not calm down. He became obsessed with the birthmark.
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📗 Alien Alert in Seattle
👤 Clemen D. B. Gina
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is the mountain range called Cascade. It is located in the county seat of Seatal, Washington. At first glance, this is an extremely inappropriate place for an alien spacecraft to appear. But once a mysterious flying object is seen by the locals. Young, but extremely smart guys begin an independent investigation and soon they discover a very unexpected truth.
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👤 Clemen D. B. Gina
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
This is the mountain range called Cascade. It is located in the county seat of Seatal, Washington. At first glance, this is an extremely inappropriate place for an alien spacecraft to appear. But once a mysterious flying object is seen by the locals. Young, but extremely smart guys begin an independent investigation and soon they discover a very unexpected truth.
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📗 The Kite-maker
👤 Anu Kumar
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
It's hard to hope or dream when there is a war on. "The Kite-Marker" is about one married couple Ahmed Rasool and Zaheera. Clare West has managed to answer the main question in the small story - what is the most important thing in life? This story shows that when love and hope live in the family, nothing will destroy it - neither war, nor hunger, nor fear…
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👤 Anu Kumar
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
It's hard to hope or dream when there is a war on. "The Kite-Marker" is about one married couple Ahmed Rasool and Zaheera. Clare West has managed to answer the main question in the small story - what is the most important thing in life? This story shows that when love and hope live in the family, nothing will destroy it - neither war, nor hunger, nor fear…
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📗 My Oedipus Complex
👤 Frank Connor
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Larry cannot make the parents behave as he wants. His father is a military man. He is hardly ever at home. A man always comes into the house and leaves silently, early in the morning or late in the evening. The war is a quiet time for this child. When he wakes up in the morning, the windows of the room look east and he sees the sunrise.
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👤 Frank Connor
📊#Elementary
📖 Description:
Larry cannot make the parents behave as he wants. His father is a military man. He is hardly ever at home. A man always comes into the house and leaves silently, early in the morning or late in the evening. The war is a quiet time for this child. When he wakes up in the morning, the windows of the room look east and he sees the sunrise.
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