Nuori Robinson Crusoe uhmaa varakasta perhettään ja lähtee näiden vastustuksesta huolimatta merille. Crusoe päätyy elämään jännittävää elämää, johon kuuluvat matkustelu ja vieraat ...

Mitä teollistuminen tekee pikkukaupungille? Kuinka nuorten ystävyys selviää maaltamuuton aallokossa? Aamuhämärä on Toivo Pekkasen keskenjääneen Kotka-trilogian ensimmäinen teos. Ki ...

Kolmen ystävyksen, Ilja Lunjeffin, Jaakko Filomonoffin ja Paavali Gratsheffin tarina jatkuu. Kaupungissa tapahtunutta murhaa selvitetään. Kolmikko yrittää kovasti olla ajattelematt ...

Landry ja Sylvinet ovat identtiset kaksoset, jotka kasvavat ranskalaisella maaseudulla 1800-luvulla. Heidän vanhempansa ovat rikkaita maanviljelijöitä. Veljesten suhde on lähes sym ...

The sculptor, Alfred, returned from Italy after spending ten years discovering Italian art and travelled to one of the cities in the province of Sjaelland island. There, everyone k ...

Keraban is a stubborn, headstrong man from Istanbul, whose life changes all of a sudden ... because of a simple tax. Keraban is a man of principles. He finds out that a new tax is ...

Manasse Jäppinen on noin seitsemänvuotias pieni pojankoltiainen, jonka tämän äiti päättää lähettää koulutielle – toiveena on, että pojasta kuoriutuisi oikea lukumies. Manasse ei ku ...

Kun äiti lähettää kahdeksanvuotiaan Otto-pojan hakemaan aamulla kaupasta siirappia, hän kieltää Ottoa härnäämästä naapurin suurta sonnia. Otto lähtee matkaan astia mukanaan ja törm ...

Jussi Puranen on mies, jossa näkyy esi-isien metsäläiset juuret. Tätä miestähän ei määräillä! Vahinko vain, että Purasen mielestä kaikilla on asiat aina paremmin kuin hänen itsellä ...

Eräällä oppineella miehellä on salaperäinen naapuri, jota kukaan ei tunne. Yhtenä iltana mies pohtii, voisiko hänen varjonsa käydä naapurissa ja kertoa hänelle, mitä naapurista löy ...

Kuninkaallinen ratsupoliisi Derwent Conniston on jo vuosien ajan jahdannut murhasta syytettyä Johnny Keithiä. Kun Conniston vihdoin tavoittaa Keithin, tapahtuu jotakin yllättävää. ...

Useissa Shakespearen näytelmissä esiintynyt hahmo sir John Falstaff on tämänkin tarinan keskiössä. Falstaff juonittelee saadakseen rouvien Paaso ja Virta aviomiesten rahat. Tästä s ...

One day, a competition was organised: the fastest would be awarded first price. The jury gave first prize to the hare and second prize was awarded to the snail. Long debates follow ...

In the tallest and poorest house in a very narrow winding street, was an attic with a single window. Behind this window, was a bird in a cage; the state of the house and the cage w ...

All the local children knew the river Odense and they all knew about the bell that could be found there. A long time ago, the bell, being tired, had fallen from its beam and had la ...

In Gudenau, in the forest of Silkeborg, lived a farmer, Jeppe Jans, and his son, Ib. In winter, when there was nothing to do in the fields, Jeppe Jans made clogs and Ib tried to do ...

The men of our world who experience glory do not generally attain it easily. There have been several martyrs who, before knowing honour, have had to follow a very thorny path...Han ...

An expedition was taking place to the other side of the sea: many boats had been sent to the North Pole to explore the sea and the ice. It was winter and over there the days ran in ...

Everyone was happy: an heir had been born and mother and son were doing well! Almost all the fairies came to offer a gift to the newborn, there was just one missing who should have ...

There were five peas in a pod: they held their line and waited for the moment to leave. For them, everything was green: they were green and their world, which was limited to their ...

While the town judge was at his window, the son of the washerwoman passed before him. The judge said him unkind words to him about his mother. She drank to keep warm during the lon ...

Johanne and Knud lived close to the town of Kjöge, where there are many gardens that extend as far as the river. There is not much else, but it is charming in summer! It was under ...

It was the month of May and spring had arrived, although it was still cold. The flowers were blooming, but not all flowers receive the same praise. Some would say that there a diff ...

In this short tale, Hans Christian Andersen depicts a castle’s ramparts on an autumn day. A bird flies through the prison cell window and softens the heart of the miserable prisone ...

A flea, a grasshopper and a jumping goose entered a competition to see who could jump the highest. Who would win? That is a question that would turn out to be more complicated than ...