The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen This is the imaginative tale of a vain Emperor who is hilariously deceived due to his own vanity and dihonesty. The Emperor, who is swindled by two crooks posing as weavers, is fooled because of his desire to be both handsome and wise. In the end, the naked…
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Timeless Tales #001 | The Tell-Tale Heart دی ٹیل-ٹیل ہارٹ | Edgar Allan Poe
دی ٹیل-ٹیل ہارٹ(راز فاش کرنے والا دل) سچ ہے! میں اعصابی ہوں، بہت زیادہ اعصابی۔ ہمیشہ سے رہا ہوں۔ مگر آپ مجھے پاگل کیوں کہتے ہیں؟ اس بیماری نے میرے حواس کو کمزور نہیں کیا، بلکہ اور زیادہ تیز کر دیا ہے۔ خاص طور پر میری سماعت۔ میں زمین اور آسمان کی بے…
Timeless Tales #001 | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe
Timeless Tales Note: This classic work is in the public domain and is reproduced here for readers to enjoy and discover. All rights belong to the original author and their legacy; this edition is shared solely because the work is no longer protected by copyright. THE TELL-TALE HEART True! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous…
Timeless Tales #000
So, after finishing my first Agatha Christie novel, reading Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, and Hans Christian Andersen’s The Emperor’s New Clothes, I found myself thinking about something I had somehow overlooked for years: The public domain is full of genuinely good stories. Not “important” stories that people pretend to enjoy, not books that…
Book Review | The Emperor’s New Clothes | Hans Christian Andersen
The Emperor’s New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen This is the imaginative tale of a vain Emperor who is hilariously deceived due to his own vanity and dihonesty. The Emperor, who is swindled by two crooks posing as weavers, is fooled because of his desire to be both handsome and wise. In the end,…
Book Review | The Tell-Tale Heart | Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe A murderer is convinced that the loud beating of his victim’s heart will give him away to the police. Author Author, poet, and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe is credited with pioneering the short story genre, inventing detective fiction, and contributing to the development of science…
Book Review | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Agatha Christie
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot #1) Emily Inglethorp has been poisoned. And it seems everyone at Styles Court, from the hired help to family members, had a motive—and the means. But with Detective Hercule Poirot out of retirement and on the case, no one’s getting away with murder. The…
Book Review | The Hunchback of Notre-Dame | Malvina G. Vogel
The Hunchback of Notre Dame Adapted by Malvina G. Vogel Written by Victor Hugo This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest…
Book Review | Labels and Other Stories | Louis de Bernières
Labels and Other Stories by Louis de Bernières Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of…
Book Review | Breath of Fresh Air | Erica James
Breath of Fresh Air by Erica James Charlotte Lawrence, widowed at thirty-four, decides to return to all things pre-Peter, and that means moving back to the Cheshire village of her childhood. It also means exchanging a clinical company flat for the pretty but overgrown garden of Ivy Cottage, and the constant attentions of her…