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'Wilde's stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice,. The age-old questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the twentieth century'. — Michèle Mendelssohn, Professor of English & American Literature, University of Oxford.
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How did the whale get his throat? Why was the lazy camel lumbered with a hump? And how did the elephant's insatiable curiosity earn him a trunk? Kipling first invented these delightful stories about the beginning of the world and the first animals in it for his own daughter, Josephine, who tragically died when she was six. Devastated by her loss, Kipling compiled the stories they had shared together into a treasury, which was first published in 1902....
4) Cinderella
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A mistreated kitchen maid, with the help of her fairy godmother, attends the palace ball on the condition that she leave before midnight.
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