Improve your English through Reading Stories: 253 - Geoff Ryman
A cult classic in the making. 253 is the novel about everyone you've ever met and wished you hadn't or wished you could again. 252 passengers and one driver on the London Underground. They all have their own personal histories, their own thoughts about themselves and their travelling neighbours.
Lionel the Cat gets a taste of what it's like to walk on two legs when his magician-owner grants his wish to be a man. This action-packed fantasy follows Lionel as he encounters both the bright and dark sides of being human. Ages 10-14
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping--rapping at my chamber door. 'Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door-- Only this and nothing more. Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore-- For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore ...
