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This bundle includes Basil of Baker Street, Basil and the Cave of Cats, Basil in Mexico, and Basil in the Wild West.

A story collection reflecting an important part of every child's life. Five children in different parts of the world are connected by the captivating flight of starling murmurations. A runaway, a rescue, a desert drama, from Egypt to Morocco, across Spain and France, the starlings swoop and dive, glide and soar - as the children watching them undertake their own journeys.

Step into a world where instinct runs deeper than memory and survival is the only law. Jack London's The Call of the Wild is a timeless tale of transformation, told through the eyes of a dog torn from domestic comfort and thrown into the brutal wilds of the Yukon. This gripping new audiobook edition, narrated by Lucy Walker, captures every heartbeat of Buck's journey—from betrayal and hardship to resilience and awakening. With rich, immersive storytelling and atmospheric detail, London's words come alive in a way that's both primal and poetic.

Oscar Wilde told and retold his fairy tales to friends in private readings, refining them further each time before finally publishing them in two collections between 1888 and 1891 to great acclaim and lasting popularity ever since. Much of their charm is due to Wilde's intention that the stories be "studies in prose... meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy, and who find in simplicity a subtle strangeness."

Die Geschichte vom Jäger, der vom Hasen überrumpelt wird und in den Brunnen fällt, spielt nicht im kindlichen Milieu. Es ist keine Geschichte über ein unartiges Kind, sondern über eine „verkehrte Welt“, ein sehr beliebtes Motiv im Volksgut. Hier wird die Autorität, der Jäger, anscheinend straflos verhöhnt und sogar besiegt, der Schwächere, der Hase triumphiert.

In The Young King, Oscar Wilde weaves a luminous and moving moral fable about beauty, power, and compassion. On the eve of his coronation, a boy—raised as a humble shepherd—dreams three haunting visions that reveal the human suffering behind the treasures prepared for his crown and robe. Confronted with the truth that luxury is purchased by the toil and pain of others, he awakens transformed in spirit.

In a thrilling follow-up to Tasting Light, ten bestselling and award-winning masters of the form use the possible—and the premise of hope—to explore how science and technology can reshape our world and defy assumptions.

Oscar Wilde tells the story of the wedding of a prince and a Russian princess ending with fireworks. When the madly in love couple starts talking to each other, we meet the very distinguished Remarkable Rocket. And we see the amazing epigram by Wilde, 'I like to do all of the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.'

The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde was first published in 1888 in the anthology The Happy Prince and Other Tales, which, in addition to its title story, also includes "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "The Selfish Giant" and "The Devoted Friend". This story concerns a Firework, who is one of many to be let off at the wedding of a prince and princess. He considers all of the other characters with whom he interacts, the other fireworks, a frog, a dragonfly and a duck, to be his inferiors and criticizes them for not paying sufficient attention to him.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (or Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde.

Estos son algunos cuentos de Oscar Wilde, entre ellos "El principe Feliz", "El ogro egoista", y "Un amigo fiel."