Tag: literature
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The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
“Wind in the Willows is a children’s story emphasizing friendship, adventure, and nature, perfect for fostering a love of reading.”
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The Wind in the Willows Chapter 2: The Open Road
Chapter 2: The Open Road Ratty,’ said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, ‘if you please, I want to ask you a favour.’ The Rat was sitting on the river bank, singing a little song. He had just composed it himself, so he was very taken up with it, and would not pay proper…
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Chapter 1: The Riverbank
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an…
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Swiss Family Robinson Chapter 58
Chapter 58 I must conclude my journal here. We can scarcely be more happy than we are, and I feel no cares about my children. Fritz is so fond of the chase and of mechanics, and Ernest of study, that they will not wish to marry; but I please myself by hoping at some time…
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Swiss Family Robinson Chapter 57 part 2
Chapter 57 – Part 2 The next day, Fritz and Ernest set out on their expedition with Parabery, in his canoe, to seek our two valued dogs. The good islander carried his canoe on his back to the shore. I saw them set off, but not without some dread, in such a frail bark, into…
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Heidi Chapter 23 part 3
Parting To Meet Again continued… Being again urged to utter a wish, he saw at last that he was saved from the power of the terrible man. He felt as if the most crushing load had fallen off him. He knew now that it was better to confess at once, when something had gone wrong,…
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Swiss Family Robinson Chapter 57 part 1
Chapter 57 – Part 1 “My story,” she began, “will not be long. I might make it in two words, you have lost me, and you have found me. I have every reason to thank Heaven for a circumstance, which has proved to me how dear I am to you, and has given me the happiness…
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Heidi Chapter 23 part 2
Parting To Meet Again continued… In spite of the greatest effort, Peter could not stop himself, and kept rolling on. But his fright and terror were still more terrible than his bumps and blows. This stranger was the policeman, that was a certain fact! At last, being thrown against a bush, he clutched it wildly.…
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Heidi Chapter 23
Parting To Meet Again The day before her visit the grandmama had sent a letter to announce her coming. Peter brought it up with him next morning. The grandfather was already before the hut with the children and his merry goats. His face looked proud, as he contemplated the rosy faces of the girls and…
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Swiss Family Robinson Chapter 56
Chapter 56 “We had been more than an hour under the tree, when I heard cries again; but this time I was not alarmed, for I distinguished the voice of the disconsolate mother, and I knew that I could comfort her. Her grief brought her back to the spot where she thought her child had…