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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884. It is an incredible tale of a boy, Huckleberry Finn, from a Mississippi River town who narrates his adventures with Tom Sawyer and how he gets into trouble for helping a runaway slave Jim.
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Frankenstein; is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition published in Paris in 1821.
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Grimms’ Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children’s and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, is a collection of fairy tales by the Grimm brothers or “Brothers Grimm”, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition in 1857, had 210 unique fairy tales.
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“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true…” - Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter is a historical fiction, first published in 1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is considered his “masterwork”. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of a “fallen” woman, her vengeful and incognito husband, and a charismatic young minister harbouring a terrible secret. The female protagonist, Hester Prynne, conceives a daughter through an affair and is publicly shamed for adultery. She wears the titular red “A” on her breast, marking her as an adulteress. In her arms she bears Pearl, the daughter born of sin. The book explores the theme of sin, repentance, dignity, honour and courage.
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.” Oscar Wilde The Canterville Ghost is a delightful story written in a witty way by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1887. The story is about a rather brash American family that buys a haunted mansion called Canterville Chase in Victorian England. Then there begins the holy terror by the ghost of a dead nobleman. Not only this American family faces new experiences in this mansion, this strange ghost also faces some odd but very curious experiences with this family that he had never faced before in 300 years.
गोपू बुक्स की शानदार परंपरा को आगे बढ़ाते हुए, वी एंड एस पब्लिशर्स, कहानियों की पांच उत्कृष्ट पुस्तकें प्रकाशित कर चुके हैं। * बच्चों के लिए पौराणिक कहानियाँ * बच्चों के लिए जंगल की कहानियां * बच्चों के लिए अनमोल कहानियाँ * बच्चों के लिए रोचक कहानियाँ * बच्चों के लिए रामायण की कहानियाँ प्रस्तुत पुस्तक बच्चों के लिए अनमोल कहानियाँ देश-विदेश की लोक कथाओं पर आधारित पचास मनोरंजक कहानियां है। सभी कहानियां खासतौर पर बच्चों की रूचि को ध्यान में रखकर लिखी गयी है। इन कहानियों में सैकड़ों साल पहले के लोगों की जीवनशैली तथा हाव-भाव से जुड़ी रूचिकार घटनाओं की जानकारी दी गयी है। उपयुक्त कहानियों की पुस्तकों को प्रकाशित करने का उद्देश्य बच्चों के मनोरंजन के साथ-साथ उन्हें जिंदगी की वास्तविकता से परिचित कराना भी है। पुस्तक की भाषाशैली अत्यन्त सहज तथा भावपूर्ण होने के कारण ये पुस्तकें बच्चों के बीच अवश्य ही लोकप्रिय होगी। प्रत्येक कहानी के अन्त में कहानी से मिलने वाली सीख की जानकारी भी दी गयी है, जिसे पढ़कर बच्चे ज्ञान अर्जित कर सकते हैं। वी एंड एस पब्लिशर्स ने इन सभी पुस्तकों को बाजार में बिक रही कहानियों की अन्य पुस्तकों से अलग करने के लिए विशेषतौर पर ब्लैक एण्ड ह्नाइट कार्टन चित्रों से सजाया है। इन चित्रों के कारण सभी पुस्तकें कहानी की अन्य पुस्तकों से ज्यादा रोचक और आकर्षक बन गयी है।
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