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The Magic Pool
In The Day Before Yesterday
This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during h…
The Fantastic Imagination
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…
Preface
In The Pink Fairy Book
All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read…
23 - Red Magic
In Seeing Things at Night
Seeing Things at Night is a delightful collection of humorous short stories by Heywood Broun that captures the absurdities of everyday life.…
Magic
In The Tale of Billy Woodchuck
This collection of short stories is about the amusing adventures of Billy Woodchuck and the other animals he encounters around Pleasant Vall…
The King’s Magic Drum
In Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
A collection of folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell, deputy commissioner of the region when t…
The Magic Bottle
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
The Magic Invasion of Seoul
In Korean Folk Tales
"To any one who would like to look somewhat into the inner soul of the Oriental, and see the peculiar spiritual existences among which …
The Divine Fantasy
In The Black Panther
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and be…
Love Magic by Gregorio Martinez Sierra, Translated by John Garrett Underhill
In One-Act Play Collection 013
Here, in our 13th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from tales of ancient Greek sailors to a story about early…
Illusion
In Stars of the Desert
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Wood Magic
In The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
Celebrated Scottish author John Buchan, creator of the Richard Hannay series of thrillers (including The Thirty-Nine Steps and Greenmantle) …
The Magic Ring
In Dream Days
Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 colle…
Mish-o-sha, The Magician
In American Indian Fairy Tales
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…
Chapter 6
In Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
A Fairy Story
In Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
The Magic Rings
In Here and Hereafter
This is a collection of stories by Barry Pain. While not all of these fall squarely into the genre of ghost and horror story, for which the …
In Fairyland
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Pronounced Fantasy
In Introducing Irony
Subtitled 'A Book of Poetic Short Stories and Poems', this collection reads years ahead of its time. Set mainly in Jazz Age New York City, t…
The Magic Slippers
In Tales of Old Lusitania
Thirty-seven tales from the folk-lore of Portugal. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle