Best Stories of All Time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book

Best Stories of All Time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book

Best Stories of All Time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book

Best Stories of All Time: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book

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Overview

This is a collection of some of the best stories ever written. It includes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Jungle Book.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and never ages, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang, the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland.


The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by English Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The stories were first published in magazines in 1893–94. The original publications contain illustrations, some by Rudyard's father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was born in India and spent the first six years of his childhood there. After about ten years in England, he went back to India and worked there for about six-and-a-half years. These stories were written when Kipling lived in Vermont. There is evidence that it was written for his daughter Josephine, who died in 1899 aged six, after a rare first edition of the book with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter was discovered at the National Trust's Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire in 2010.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940149082483
Publisher: Editorial Medi
Publication date: 11/15/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Date of Birth:

January 27, 1832

Date of Death:

January 14, 1898

Place of Birth:

Daresbury, Cheshire, England

Place of Death:

Guildford, Surrey, England

Education:

Richmond School, Christ Church College, Oxford University, B.A., 1854; M.A., 1857
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