As his brother prepares to leave the dog they share, Fred the greedy flea pretends to have the flu in order to stay behind and have the whole dog, unaware of the fate that awaits him.
La chasse au m?t?ore : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Verne, Jules
2006
An English translation of Jules Verne's satirical and visionary novel in which a meteor of pure gold careens toward the earth, generating competitive greed among astronomers and chaos among nations obsessed with its trajectory.
When a miser refuses to pay a tailor a fair price for sewing a coat of gold, the tailor's family seeks revenge by offering the miser a chance to own the sun.
A seed falls onto the boundary between two rival tribes of insects and provokes preparations for war, but a simple solution is growing while they prepare.
Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.
Rene asks her father and mother to build her a playhouse, a play barn, a play cow, and more, until finally her parents decide that they'd like to have a play Rene.