— The Picture of Dorian Gray 

— Bremen Town Musicians

— The Headless Horseman

— Rip Van Winkle

— The Missing Coins

 — Look up!  

 — The Little Prince

— The Treasure Island

— Between You and me 

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 The Picture of Dorian Gray

 Oscar Wilde

Dorian is an extremely handsome, impressionable, and wealthy young gentleman. Under the influence of Lord Henry

Dorian becomes extremely concerned with the transience of his beauty and begins to pursue his own pleasure above all else.

Íris, 9E

In Dorian's study

In Victorian London a well-known artist Basil Hallward meets Dorian Gray who sits for several portraits.

Lord Henry is a man possessed of “wrong, fascinating, poisonous, delightful theories.” 

He is a charming talker, a famous wit, and a brilliant intellect. 

His cynical seductive conversation leads Dorian to fall completely under his spell. 

Dorian arrives at the studio, and Basil reluctantly introduces him to Lord Henry.

A poor, beautiful, and talented actress with whom Dorian falls in love. 

Sibyl's true love for Dorian makes her realize the falseness of acting and pretending emotions onstage.

She kills herself after Dorian's decision of not loving her any longer. 

James is Sybil's brother. A sailor who spends some years in the colonies. He's totally motivated by love and revenge. He adores his sister, Sibyl, and swears to kill anyone that hurts her: 

"He is gone," murmured Sibyl sadly. "I wish you had seen him."

Sybil in turn, refers to him as “Prince Charming” and refuses to heed the warnings of her brother, James Vane, that Dorian is no good for her.

 Lord Henry's wife, Lady Victoria 

In the world of upper-class erotic intrigue, she is 'usually in love with somebody'.

She offers a bolder challenge to the status quo than any of the men in the novel.

Alan Campbell is a scientist whom Dorian knew intimately once, but grows like many others to despise Dorian and doesn’t want anything to do with the death of Basil. Dorian blackmails him and he unhappily makes Basil's body disappear and commits suicide not long after.

Bremen Town Musicians

The  Grimm Brothers

This is the story of four farm animals:

a donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster. 

They work hard all their life. 

 Their masters no longer want them because they are old and can't help in the farm.

 So, they decide to run away and become town musicians. 

On their way to the city of Bremen they find some burglars in an old house in the forest.

They scare them away and decide to live there.

They find a new home and a new family.

They never get to Bremen !!

The Headless Horseman

 Washington Irving

This is the story of Ichabod Crane, a superstitious schoolmaster.

He lives in Sleepy Hollow and comes from the state of Connecticut.

Sleepy Hollow is the quietest place in the world. People are always a bit sleepy.

Some people say there are bizarre spirits in this valley.

The people believe there is a ghost of a soldier of the American Revolutionary War..

A headless man in a big horse.

Every night he rides his horse and looks for his head. He rides in the valley, near the river, in the forest and on the roads. He always returns to the cemetery before daylight.

Katrina is Ichabod's singing pupil. She is eighteen and is very beautiful.

Ichabod likes Katrina very much and wants to marry her. 

Katrina has many admirers. 

Who does Katrina like?

No one knows.

Brom Bones is the hero of Sleepy Hollow.

He likes Katrina very much.

One evening there's a party at the Van Tassel's house. 

Ichabod dances with Katrina.

Brom isn't dancing. 

He's angry and jealous.

Everybody talks about the American Revolutionary War. 

They also talk about ghosts.

No one knows what happens between Katrina and Ichabod that evening,

But he's very sad when he leaves the Van Tassel house.

Does Katrina prefer Brom? 

It is a very dark and mysterious night. 

Clouds cover the stars.

Suddenly Ichabod sees the 

Headless Horseman.!!

The next morning Gunpowder arrives at Van Ripper's farm but Ichabod isn't there for breakfast. He isn't at school and he isn't at Van Ripper's farm.

They look for Ichabod everywhere but they can't find his body. Years later an old farmer returning from New York says to the people in Sleepy Hollow:

Ichabod Crane is alive and well. Now he's a Congressman. He left because Katrina wanted to marry Brom Bones.

Only Brom knows the true story !

But now, on winter evenings

 the old women tell the terrible story of Ichabod Crane and the 

Headless Horseman.

Rip Van Winkle

 Washington Irving 

It is 1769. 

In a village near the Catskill Mountains lives a friendly man.

His name is Rip Van Winkle.

The Catskill Mountains change colours at different times of the year.

People say they are magic mountains.

The Van Winkles have two children, Rip and Judith.

Mrs Winkle nags Rip all the time.

He does everybody's work but his own.

The people in the village all love him.

Rip has a dog.

His name's Wolf.

One day they go for a walk in the mountain.

After some time Rip meets a man. 

He carries a barrel. Rip helps him. 

He's an old man. He has a long beard and he's wearing Dutch clothes

He takes Rip to a clear in the forest.

There he finds a group of men.

They are playing ninepins and wearing Dutch clothes.

No one speaks.

Rip drinks from the barrel too.

He is tired and he falls asleep.

When he wakes up everything has changed.

Wolf is gone.

He is an old man with a long white beard

He recognises no one in the village. 

The houses are different.

George Washington’s portrait hangs in place of King George III.

Rip makes new friends. Everyone likes him.

He doesn't understand the American Revolutionary War or the new nation called the United States of America.

But he is a happy man now. 

He lives with his daughter and his son visits them every day.

He also tells travellers about his twenty-year-long sleep. 

Some people believe him...some don't :)

The Missing Coins

 John Escott  

Pete and Carla are both students at the University of Bath. 

One summer day they are walking round the city and decide to look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. 

There is a man playing flute in a corner of a quiet street. 

Pete wants to buy some, but they are too expensive. 

Later that afternoon the coins are missing from the shop. 

The shopkeeper calls the Police. 

Carla and Pete explain they have not stollen the coins and help the Police solve the case.

They discover it is the flute player and the shop assistant. 

In the end the shopkeeper gives Pete  some old stamps for his collection.

Look Up

Nathan Bryon

Rocket is a space-obsessed girl who wants everybody to be as excited as her about an impending meteor shower.

She has a cat named Luna.

  Luna the Cat

Luna the Cat

Rocket is going to be the greatest astrononaut, star-catcher, space-traveller that has ever lived.

Rocket needs to convince her big brother Jamal to stop looking down at his phone and start looking up at the stars.

                                                     Look Up!  

              THE PHOENIX 

                                           METEOR SHOWER!

The Little Princes

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.