High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was covered all over with thin leaves of gold. For eyes he had two bright blue sapphires, and a large red ruby shone on the handle of his sword.
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For children
25 easy fairy tales, fables and folk tales for young learners.
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde · A2
The Lion and the Mouse and Other Fables
Aesop · A1
The Emperor's New Clothes and Other Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · A1
The Fox and the Grapes and Other Fables
Aesop · A1
The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales
Joseph Jacobs · A1
The Elves and the Shoemaker and Other Tales
Brothers Grimm · A1
The library
95 books. All are public-domain works: the graded readers are abridged and simplified, the full texts are the complete originals with light edits.
A1 · Beginner
The Lion and the Mouse and Other Fables
Aesop · A1
The Emperor's New Clothes and Other Tales
Hans Christian Andersen · A1
The Fox and the Grapes and Other Fables
Aesop · A1
The Three Little Pigs and Other Tales
Joseph Jacobs · A1
The Elves and the Shoemaker and Other Tales
Brothers Grimm · A1
Little Red Riding Hood and Mother Holle
Brothers Grimm · A1
A2 · Elementary
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde · A2
The Selfish Giant and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde · A2
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum · A2
Five Children and It
E. Nesbit · A2
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell · A2
The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories
O. Henry · A2
B1 · Intermediate
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens · B1
The Gold-Bug
Edgar Allan Poe · B1
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll · B1
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett · B1
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit · B1
The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde · B1
B2 · Upper intermediate
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson · B2
The Call of the Wild
Jack London · B2
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne · B2
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · B2
Dracula
Bram Stoker · B2
The Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain · B2
C1 · Advanced
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · C1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · C1
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · C1
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · C1
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens · C1
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · C1