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Retells twelve tales from Greek mythology, including the stories of King Midas, Echo and Narcissus, the Golden Apples, and Cupid and Psyche.

A collection of well-known tales from medieval Europe, including "Beowulf," "The Sword in the Stone," "The Song of Roland," and "The Island of the Lost Children."

An abridged version of the tale of the four Musketeers' final adventure during which they plot to replace King Louis XIV of France with the mysterious, masked prisoner in the Bastille believed to be Louis' falsely imprisoned twin brother and the true king.

An abridged version of the novel chronicling a Mohican brave's struggle to protect two English girls from an evil Huron during the French and Indian War.

Odysseus and his men encounter many perils during their long journey back to Ithaca after the Trojan War, in a retelling of Homer's epic.

Odysseus and his men encounter many perils during their long journey back to Ithaca after the Trojan War, in a retelling of Homer's epic.

"This just will not do! says Lizzy, flinging a rock from her shoe. A simple matter getting a rock in your shoe but what is small to one may be large and looming to another. After encountering a number of characters and situations, the rock continues its tumbling excursion of wh...

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

After struggling against the gods and his fate for more than twenty years, Odysseus has returned to Ithaca at last. But things have changed: what used to be his island has been overrun by suitors who clamor for his wife's hand in marriage and plague his son, Telemachus. With the ...

Daniel looks forward to helping his Uncle Peter set traps for the foxes that have been plaguing the family farm, until the discovery of a severed fox paw makes him seriously question what he and his uncle are doing.

An abridged version of the science fiction novel about the scientist who invents a time machine and uses it to travel to the year 802,701 A.D., where he discovers the childlike Eloi and the hideous underground Morlocks.

A collection of rarely retold tales from the "Elder Edda" and the "Younger Edda," two six-hundred-year-old Norse manuscripts.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Tells the story of Goliath, a fire horse assigned to Engine Company 15, whose steadfastness led him to become a hero during the 1904 fire in Baltimore, Maryland.

Twelve-year-old Dubliner Kathleen Delaney is given the chance to take Irish dancing lessons in 1937 and discovers she has a talent for it.

In 1939, twelve-year-old Neela meets a young freedom fighter at her sister's wedding and soon after must rely on his help when her father fails to return home from a march in Calcutta against British occupation.

An abridged retelling of the story of an American boy who goes to live with his grandfather in England where he becomes heir to a title and a fortune.

An orphan sent to live with her grandfather learns to love both the old man and the Swiss Alps and is homesick when she goes to the city to be a companion to an invalid.

Retells a part of the Odyssey in which Odysseus and his men, returning from the Land of the Dead and still determined to sail home to Ithaca, encounter Scylla, the six-headed monster, and Charybdis, the deadly whirlpool.