Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
By: selected by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9780684868738
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Children's literature.; Literature -- Collections.
Genres: Collections.
Description: A collection of stories and poems, arranged in four sections corresponding to the four seasons.
Table of contents: title: A Crazy tale / Gilbert Keith Chesterton; title: How the rhinoceros got his skin / Rudyard Kipling; title: Reflections / Lafcadio Hearn; title: Complements / Emile Zola; title: The King of the Golden River or the Black Brothers / John Ruskin; title: The Elephant's child / Rudyard Kipling; title: The Bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson; title: The Remarkable rocket / Oscar Wilde; title: Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain; title: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi / Rudyard Kipling; title: Uncle David's nonsensical story about giants and fairies / Catherine Sinclair; title: The Fox and the hedgehog / Aesop; title: The Goose-girl / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm; title: The necklace of Princess Fiorimonde / Mary de Morgan; title: The Crow and the pitcher / Aesop; title: The Bridge comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane; title: Humpty Dumpty / Lewis Carroll; title: The Stag looking into the water / Aesop; title: The Mock Turtle's story / Lewis Carroll; title: The Problem of Thor Bridge / Arthur Conan Doyle; title: Wakefield / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Spring lover and the autumn lover / Lafcadio Hearn; title: The Three strangers / Thomas Hardy; title: How much land does a man need? / Leo Tolstoy; title: Ali the Persian's story of the Kurd Sharper / The Arabian Nights; title: Feathertop a moralized legend / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The Recessional / Saki; title: Death and Cupid / Aesop; title: The Red shoes / Hans Christian Andersen; title: The Signal-man / Charles Dickens; title: Witches' loaves / O. Henry; title: The Horla, or modern ghosts / Guy de Maupassant; title: The Belltower / Herman Melville; title: In the dark / E. Nesbit; title: William Wilson / Edgar Allan Poe; title: The Queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin; title: All souls' / Edith Wharton; title: The Remarkable case of Davidson's eyes / H.G. Wells; title: The Nose / Nikolai Gogol; title: The Song of triumphant love / Ivan Turgenev