In the wake of her father’s death, Ash is left at the mercy of her cruel stepmother. Consumed with grief, her only joy comes by the light of the dying hearth fire, re-reading the fairy tales her mother once told her. In her dreams, someday the fairies will steal her away, as they are said to do. When she meets the dark and dangerous fairy Sidhean, she believes that her wish may be granted.
Four chilling tales take you into a world where anything can happen. Charles Dickens adds extra horror to his famous tale of a haunted railwayman. In Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, ‘Ligeia’, the ghost of a beautiful woman returns and defeats death. E. Nesbit shows us how there really is a good reason to be scared of the dark. And F. M. Crawford tells of a ship’s passenger who encounters a horrible ‘thing’ in his cabin.
Jerome K. Jerome - Animal Tales. (level 2)Jerome K. Jerome
Read these amusing stories and discover why elephants have trunks, how it’s best to work out the correct price for pigs straight away, and what happened when an English lady went hunting for a tiger! You will also find a stolen elephant, go boating with three friends, and see how much trouble a small dog can make!
A group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury decide that each traveller should tell a story. The Knights tell a tale of high romance. The Pardoner tells a story of death. And the Wife of Bath tells the story of her five husbands and her fight to control the men in her life. But The Tales ends with the story of the perfect marriage and how, if we are enerous to one another, we can find the perfect society.
