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Stories Collection (page 27)

Background imageStories Collection: Grazia Deledda / Nobel 26

Grazia Deledda / Nobel 26
GRAZIA DELEDDA Italian writer, best known for stories of Sardinian peasantry. Nobel Prize winner in 1926

Background imageStories Collection: House of Agnes

House of Agnes
The House of Agnes, 71 St, Dunstans Street, Canterbury, Kent. This splendid house is associated with the love story in " David Copperfield"

Background imageStories Collection: Racial / Australia / Swagman

Racial / Australia / Swagman
A swagman tells stories to a settlers children

Background imageStories Collection: Sensationalist News

Sensationalist News
The modern editor and his boss, the pressure to publish sensational news

Background imageStories Collection: Dickens / Cricket / Hearth

Dickens / Cricket / Hearth
Caleb Plummer and his blind daughter sit in his workshop where he makes and mends toys. Artist: Frederick Barnard

Background imageStories Collection: Thumbkinetta

Thumbkinetta (Tommelise) stands on a water-lily leaf

Background imageStories Collection: The Snow Queen

The Snow Queen
The witch combs Gerdas hair in the Snow Queen

Background imageStories Collection: Bluebeard

Bluebeard warns her about the key to the room she is forbidden to enter

Background imageStories Collection: Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast
This well-dressed beast is no more horrifying than outsize teddy bear in Beauty and the Beast

Background imageStories Collection: Exchequer Gate, Lincoln

Exchequer Gate, Lincoln, close to Lincoln Cathedral. The gate is three stories high and dates from the 14th century and forms part of the walls of Lincoln Castle

Background imageStories Collection: Spinning, Austria

Spinning, Austria
A Rockensitz - literally, a distaff session - among peasant women in lower Austria; the old lady tells stories as she spins, the young ones listen

Background imageStories Collection: Sci Wonder Stories / 1930

Sci Wonder Stories / 1930
The Vapor Intelligence (Jack Barnette) The invading foe from out of space

Background imageStories Collection: Delightful Stories

Delightful Stories
Cover of Nelsons Delightful Stories for Girls showing two schoolgirls

Background imageStories Collection: Lear / Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo /

Lear / Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo /
THE COURTSHIP OF THE YONGHY- BONGHY-BO Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo woos the Lady with the milk-white Hens of Dorking

Background imageStories Collection: Lear / Pelican Chorus / C19

Lear / Pelican Chorus / C19
THE PELICAN CHORUS King & Queen of the Pelicans we; No other birds so grand we see! None but we have feet like fins! With lovely leathery throats & chins!

Background imageStories Collection: Lear / Dong / Luminous Nose

Lear / Dong / Luminous Nose
THE DONG WITH A LUMINOUS NOSE Playing his pipe

Background imageStories Collection: Editor of the Future

Editor of the Future
A high-tech editor of the future - protected by a Faraday cage and earthed, he dictates stories onto gramophone cylinders

Background imageStories Collection: Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard
SIR HENRY RIDER HAGGARD writer of She and other adventure stories

Background imageStories Collection: Conan Doyle / Lamond Life

Conan Doyle / Lamond Life
CONAN DOYLE writing one of the early Sherlock Holmes stories, circa 1892

Background imageStories Collection: Grandmother Storytelling

Grandmother Storytelling
Old woman telling stories to her many grandchildren

Background imageStories Collection: George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister

George MacDonald, Scottish writer and minister
A cartoon depiction of George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. His books for children were very popular



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