Girls Classic Fiction

A princess' maid turns on her mistress while traveling and forces her to switch roles with her. The false princess then kills the princess' horse to keep it from talking and forces the real princess to herd geese with the boy, Conrad. Conrad begins to notice strange things about the new goose-girl and informs the king. Will the false princess be discovered?

First published in the English literary anthology annual The Keepsake in 1833 by Mary Shelly, master of Gothic fiction, The Invisible Girl is a story about the turbulence of secret love. Like much of her work, Shelly blends the dark and the supernatural with elements of romance and intimacy and unravels this story within a story with aplomb, and the setting of rural Wales in the early 19th century lends to the foreboding and bittersweet tone of the tale.

Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) is generally considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. The Chorus Girl tells the tale of a mistress who is confronted unexpectedly by her lover's wife. In the meantime the cheating husband is hiding in the next room. The dialogue between the two women is classic of Chekhov's genius... he captures a person's entire character and soul within a few paragraphs and then catapults them into a crisis from which they emerge changed.

Lytt til Hans Christian Andersens fortryllende eventyr om Den Lille Piken Med Svovelstikkene i denne stemningsfylte lydboken med musikk og lyd, lest inn på norsk av Edith Lauglo Endsjø. En fattig liten pike forsøker å selge svovelstikker til folk i den bitende kulden på nyttårsaften, hvor de fleste holder fest inne i varmen og spiser god mat. Hun skal tjene penger til sin sultende familie, men ingen kjøper noe fra henne. Svovelstikkene gir henne noen andre store opplevelser på årets siste kveld.

Hören Sie Hans Christian Andersen's bezauberndes Weihnachtsmärchen Das kleine Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern in diesem spannenden Hörbuch begleitet von schöner Musik und Klangeffekten. Auf Deutsch gelesen von Samy Andersen. Ein armes kleines Mädchen versucht am bitterkalten Neujahrsabend, wo die meisten Menschen zu Hause sind und in der warmen Stube feiern und essen, Schwefelhölzer zu verkaufen. Sie muss Geld für ihre hungernde Familie verdienen.

A miller works hard every day to provide for his family. Then, one day, a gentleman with black eyes visits him and offers an unexpected opportunity for wealth. The gentleman will take care of all the miller's worries on one condition: that he gets what is behind the mill. That old apple tree, the miller thinks? That is easy to give up. What he does not realise, however, is that his daughter is standing outside by the tree…

"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1845. We use the public domain English text from A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories by H. C. Andersen in Project Gutenberg.

On New Year’s Eve, a small, poor girl walks in the darkness and cold trying to sell her matches. Hungry and frozen, she curls up in a nook and lights her matches in search for warmth. Looking into the glow of the matches, she is transported far, far away from the hunger and the cold.

Two delightful, fanciful, and heartwarming stories. "The Velveteen Rabbit" tells the tale of a stuffed rabbit that longs to become real, while "The Girl Who Owned a Bear" tells of a little girl who receives a magical book filled with the most unpredictable of magic.

The tale follows a barefoot girl trying to sell matchsticks on a frigid New Year’s Eve. As the night grows colder, she lights the matches for warmth and has visions of her dead grandmother. Feel the cold seep into your bones as you hear this tale that has haunted listeners for over a century.

What would you say to a Loved One if you had one day to live? A Letter to My Daughter is a short book of individual letters to my dearest daughter. I leave her with advice on Positive Thinking, How to Tap into your Inner Power, The Importance of Unplugging, Love, Inner Beauty etc. A Letter to My Daughter will not only inspire and empower girls but serves as a universal message to all readers.

Prince Fastidious travels the world to find his perfect princess. But something is not quite right about any of them. They either talk too much, or not at all. Some are too old for him, or too young. Others are spoiled or have too many noisy, little dogs. Find out what happens when Princess Rose accidentally comes to the castle at night because of a fierce storm. How does she prove to the Queen that she’s a real princess? A happy ending adds interest to this fairy tale and encourages a lifelong love of great storytelling.

Two little girls from different houses happened to meet in a lane between two homesteads, where the dirty water, after running through the farmyards, had formed a large puddle. One girl was very small, the other a little bigger. Their mothers had dressed them both in new frocks. The little one wore a blue frock, the other a yellow print, and both had red kerchiefs on their heads. They had just come from church when they met, and first they showed each other their finery, and then they began to play....

Few winter stories are more affecting than Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl. Written in 1848, and strictly speaking a New Year's Eve story, it showed so clearly then, as it does now, that the Christmas holidays do not represent fireside, food, and presents for all. This story never fails to move, yet it somehow avoids serious sentimentality.