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Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages

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A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons. A Crazy tale / Gilbert Keith Chesterton How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling Reflections / Lafcadio Hearn Complements / Emile Zola The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers / John Ruskin The Elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling The Bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson The Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Rudyard Kipling Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Catherine Sinclair The Fox and the hedgehog / Aesop The Goose-girl / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary de Morgan The Crow and the pitcher / Aesop The Bridge comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane Humpty Dumpty / Lewis Carroll The Stag looking into the water / Aesop The Mock Turtle's story / Lewis Carroll The Problem of Thor Bridge / Arthur Conan Doyle Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Spring lover and the autumn lover / Lafcadio Hearn The Three strangers / Thomas Hardy How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy Ali the Persian's story of the Kurd Sharper / The Arabian Nights Feathertop a moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne The Recessional / Saki Death and Cupid / Aesop The Red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen The Signal-man / Charles Dickens Witches' loaves / O. Henry The Horla, or modern ghosts / Guy de Maupassant The Belltower / Herman Melville In the dark / E. Nesbit [William Wilson](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16088822W) / Edgar Allan Poe The Queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin All souls' / Edith Wharton The Remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells The Nose / Nikolai Gogol The Song of triumphant love / Ivan Turgenev

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2001

Pages

573 pages

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4.0 / 5

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3

Publisher

Tandem Library

Language

ENG

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