50 Greatest Stories for Older Children

The most remembered tales, by the best storytellers ever!Oh, the writers you will read - from the full-of-surprises O. Henry to the ever-popular Enid Blyton, from the super-imaginative H.G. Wells to the adventurous Rudyard Kipling, from heart-tugging Munshi Premchand to tongue-in-cheek Sukumar Ray, and a whole lot of other unforgettable authors...Ah, the places they will take you - from a densely thicketed cantonment in eastern India to a battlefield in ancient Greece, from mysterious islands in unknown locations to the depths of the ocean, and from the thundering river Athabasca in North America to the Yukon trail in the chilly pine forests of Alaska, and a host of thrilling landscapes... Ooh, the characters you will meet - adventurous heroes and brave royals, monkey-kings and fairies, dragons and sharks, mongooses and multi-headed hydras, and many others who will fascinate you... This treasury of fifty timeless stories is a must-have, to read and revisit again and again. Its contents will enchant you, thrill you, keep you in suspense, tug at your heartstrings, make you laugh, make you think - and, not the least, turn you into a champion reader! Look in the book for stories by: Ambrose Bierce, Andrew Lang, Angela Brazil Anton P. Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Dhan Gopal Mukerji, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Allan Poe, E. Nesbit, Enid Blyton, Guy de Maupassant, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Jules Verne, Katherine Mansfield, Kenneth Grahame, Kottarathil Sankunni, Lal Behari Day, Leo Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Munshi Premchand, Nathanie Hawthorne, O. Henry, Oscar Wilde, Rabindranath Tagore, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Somadeva, Sukumar Ray, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, William Shakespeare, Zane Grey and more...