Why does Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, look so sad? Why does he often say strange things? His family and friends are worried about him. Perhaps he is mad! But Hamlet thinks that he has d…
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress--ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its peo…
Eddie is one of the famous Red Mask Gang of bank robbers. And he's feeling rich after the last bank robbery. He rents one of the beautiful Blue Lake Cabins in the mountains. One day, Eddie goes …
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said"No!" He was Edward VIII, King of Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And…
Steve lives in Cado, and his father is the editor of the Cado Star newspaper. But today, the Cado Star reporter is ill and Steve's father wants something interesting for this week's newspaper. " …
The stories are about Sherlock Holmes and his friend, Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes is a private detective. People pay him to find things that are lost or stolen. Holmes likes to solve mysteries an…
King Henry the Eighth of England was famous for many things, but he also famous because he had six wives. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half.…
In the jungle of Southern India, the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf. He is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers…
"I can see wonderful things!" said Howard Carter, when he opened the tomb of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamun, in 1922. In the tomb were gold chariots, statues, and Tutankhamun's 3000 years old b…
In a city in Arabia, there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes…