Tag: Public Domain Books

Timeless Tales Plan

p Here’s a roadmap for Timeless Tales/Classics in Urdu series I’ve planned.   Experimentation Phase  Phase 1: The Big Names These are the ones almost everyone recognizes. Title Source Approx. Words Cinderella Brothers Grimm / Perrault variants 2,000-4,000 Rapunzel Brothers Grimm 2,000 Snow White Brothers Grimm 4,000 Sleeping Beauty Perrault / Grimm variants 2,500 Beauty…

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Timeless Tales #003 | Cinderella سنڈریلا | The Brothers Grimm

  شہنشاہ کے نئے کپڑے     ایک امیر آدمی کی بیوی بیمار پڑی، اور جب اسے محسوس ہوا کہ اس کا آخری وقت قریب ہے تو اس نے اپنی اکلوتی بیٹی کو اپنے بستر کے پاس بلایا اور کہا: “پیار ی بچی، نیک اور پاکیزہ رہنا، تو خدا ہمیشہ تیری مدد کرے گا، اور…

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Timeless Tales #002 | The Emperor’s New Clothes شہنشاہ کے نئے کپڑے | Hans Christian Andersen

  شہنشاہ کے نئے کپڑے   بہت عرصہ پہلے ایک بادشاہ تھا جسے نئے کپڑوں کا اس قدر شوق تھا کہ وہ اپنا سارا خزانہ لباس پر خرچ کر دیتا تھا۔ اسے نہ اپنی فوج کی فکر تھی، نہ تھیٹر کی، نہ شکار کی سیر کا شوق تھا۔ اگر کسی چیز میں اسے حقیقی خوشی…

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Book Review | The Shadow | Hans Christian Andersen

  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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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