Creative classic series

The brief appearance of a ghost late at night begins a series of comic misunderstandings during which the narrator's mother throws a shoe through a neighbor's window and his grandfather shoots a policeman.

A nine-year-old New England girl has to decide whether or not she will help the ornithologist who is searching for the rare white heron.

An old man and two children wander through the country and he answers all of their questions from his experience.

When Yellow Sky's marshall, Jack Potter, returns from San Antonio with his bride, Scratchy Wilson is looking for a gunfight.

Two Dublin schoolboys in search of an adventure have an encounter with a strange man, in this story first published in 1914 in the short-story collection "Dubliners".

A stubborn old Chinese woman finds that her perpetual foe, the river, can be an ally when her village is invaded by enemy troops.

Four men who survive a shipwreck are in a small boat on the open sea.

The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot.

A princess must choose the fate for her lover--the lady or the tiger.

A frantic young bride is accidentally married to a snow covered stranger seeking shelter from a Russian winter storm.