Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but oneday a cyclone blows her and her house toa strange country called Oz. There, Dorothymakes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person canhelp her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothyand her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz…
It is 1880,in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom ofthe Opera,the ghost that lives somewhereunder the Opera House.The Phantom is aman in black clothes.He is a body without a head,he is a head without a body.He has a yellow face,hehas no nose,he has black holes for eyes.Everybody is afraidof the Phantom-the singers,the dancers,the directors,thestage workers… But who has actually seen him?
You are in a small plane going across the Rocky Mountains.Suddenly,the enginestarts to make strange noises… Soon you are alone,in the snow,at the topof a mountain,and it is very cold.Can youfind your way down the mountain?
In a gloomy,neglected house Miss Havisham sits,as she has sat year afteryear,in a wedding dress and veil that wereonce white,and are now faded and yellowwith age.Her face is like a death's head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate.By her side sitsa proud and beautiful girl,and in front of her,trembling withfear in his thick country boots,stands young Pip. Miss Havisham stares at Pip coldly,and murmurs to the girlat her side:'Break his heart,Estella.Break his heart!'(Word count 24,045)
'I turned on the light,but there was nobodythere.Then I saw something in the cornerthat made my blood turn cold.Scudder waslying on his back.There was a long knifethrough his heart,pinning him to the floor.' Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland.The police are chasing him for a murder he did notdo,and another,more dangerous enemy is chasing him aswell-the mysterious 'Black Stone'.Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?
When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money forexpensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, ofcourse, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard tobe good so that he will be proud of his ‘little women’whenhe comes home. This heart-warming story of family life has been popularfor more than a hundred years.
'You're a brave man,but I am afraid for you,'says Lady Marian to Robin of Locksley.She is afraid because Robin does not like Prince John's new taxes and wants to do something for the poor people of Nottingham.When Prince John hears this,Robin is suddenly in great danger.
