Genre/Topic: Fantasy
Susan, Peter, Edmund and Lucy are sent away to avoid war. They are at an old professor’s house. He is not hospitable, it seems. The house is old too, and it is looks arcane and mysterious. How do the children enjoy themselves far away from home? Is anything wrong in the house? Read this lesson, […]
Genre/Topic: Poetry
‘Throwing a Tree’ shows that nature plays victim to man and his ruthless pursuit of progress. Thomas Hardy wants to express his anger towards the harm caused to nature by man’s self-centered activities. Thomas Hardy is against any kind of activity that cause nature to suffer and it shows through the pessimism that he expresses […]
Genre/Topic: Essays
Various lists of the Wonders of the World have been compiled from antiquity to the present day, to catalogue the world’s most spectacular natural wonders and manmade structures. Here, you will read about the seven wonders of the present world, which was decided upon in 2007.
Genre/Topic: Poetry
This is a very artistic poem, where the sky and the sea are talking to each other. What are they saying? Can you imagine the sky and the sea in conversation? Well, I cannot, and I wonder how the Shake Keane ever thought about it. I want to read this poem immediately.
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Genre/Topic: Short Stories
It is dark. Drops of rain are falling to the earth. The wind is howling in the cold, making the night colder. People are hastily rushing towards their homes. Everyone, except Bob. Bob is waiting for his friend, Jimmy Wills outside a shop. They had decided this meeting twenty years ago, before they parted their […]
Genre/Topic: Fairy Tales
Have you entered someone’s house without their permission? It is rude to do so. But Goldilocks is a naughty child; and she does so in spite of her mother’s warnings. And what’s more? The house belongs to three bears. What happens then? Do the three bears eat Goldilocks up? Let’s read the story of Goldilocks […]
Genre/Topic: Classics
I have only one holiday a week. And I wouldn’t like it if I am made to work on that holiday instead of playing with my friends. Tom Sawyer is in the same situation, for he is made to whitewash the long fence by Aunt Polly oh his holiday. Aunt Polly is a strict lady, […]
Genre/Topic: Fairy Tales
Three little bears have each built a house. But they have built it using different materials. That is why, not all houses are equally safe. What will happen to the pig in the unsafe house? Will storms take it away? Or will the house collapse after a rain? What about the pig in the safe […]
Genre/Topic: Nonfiction
Earthquakes are measured by seismograms on a Richter Scale. In terms of earthquakes which were studied, measured, and recorded on the Richter Scale, however, the Great Chilean Earthquake was far and away the biggest earthquake ever. It measured 9.5 on the Richter Scale. That is a big number because an earthquake of magnitude 7 can […]
