“The Ballads of Robin Hood“ have a rich history. Ballads were the first way of stories about the man named Robin Hood. They were told among the people of England. This tradition of passing on stories or history was the best because the minstrel (a medieval singer or musician) could sing in different places to different people.

In the ballads the man who is Robin Hood loves nature and freedom, he has merry time with his men, He fights against evil, but he does not have a problem with king. He is simple against those people who are unjust. Robin becomes the hero of the people for fighting this injustice. Robbing the rich and giving to the poor was his way of bringing the common people to his side.

«White Fang» is a short novel written by Jack London and published in 1906. «White Fang» is set largely in the Arctic Northland, specifically in the Yukon and the Northwest Territories of Canada, and in Alaska, sometime during the Klondike Gold Rush in the 1890s. The story is about a half-wolf, half-dog who is born from a she-wolf. His name is White Fang he is the only survivor of the litter.
White fang is a wolf born into a cruel life, but endures it and becomes stronger because of it.
The book tells the tale of the wolfdog White Fang’s long and eventful transformation from a feral and savage animal of the Wild to a domesticated household pet.

Today we are reading Mark Twain’s novel "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".

The book which was first published in the United Kingdom in December 1884 and in the United States in February 1885. Although its slow popularity could not fetch the desired wealth for Mark Twain, its forceful entry into the classic American fiction won the author matchless fame later. Marked with colorful description of the Mississippi River and its adjoining areas and people, the novel shows the use of different colloquialisms used in the South at that time. The storyline introduces a young boy, Huckleberry Finn, unveiling racism and slavery during his adventures on the Mississippi River.

Today we are reading Сharles Dickens’s book «Oliver Twist».

«Oliver Twist», in full «Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress», novel by Charles Dickens was published in 1838. The novel was the first of the author’s works to realistically depict the impoverished London underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime.

In 1937 Ernest Hemingway travelled to Spain to cover the civil war there for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Three years later he completed the greatest novel «For Whom the Bell Tolls».The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway's best works.

The title is from a sermon by John Donne. Hemingway quotes part of the meditation (using Donne’s original spelling) in the book’s epigraph.

Published in 1940, «For Whom the Bell Tolls» tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain. Hemingway created a work at once rare and beautiful, strong and brutal, compassionate, moving, and wise.

Today we are reading Сharles Dickens’s book «A Christmas Carol».
«A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas», commonly known as «A Christmas Carol», is a novella first published in London in 1843 and illustrated by John Leach.
«A Christmas Carol» is the most famous, heart-warming and chilling festive story. In these pages we meet Ebenezer Scrooge, whose name is synonymous with greed. This attitude is soon challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley, returns from the grave to haunt him on Christmas Eve.

Today we are reading Robert Louis Stevenson's book “Treasure Island”.  Stevenson's first novel, «Treasure Island», began as an entertainment for his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. After devising a map just to break the monotony of the summer of 1881 in Braemar, Scotland, Stevenson followed it immediately with a story whose "characters began to appear visibly among imaginary woods; and [whose] brown faces and bright weapons . . . passed to and fro, fighting, and hunting treasure, on these few square inches of a flat projection."

By October of 1881, the novel was first published in serial form in Young Folks' Magazine under the title "The Sea Cook." Stevenson's subsequent revisions led the work to great popularity when it was published in book form.

Today we are reading Mark Twain’s book “The Prince and the Pauper”.

“The Prince and the Pauper” is a novel by American author Mark Twain. Having returned from a second European tour Twain read extensively about English and French history. The novel represents Twain's first attempt at historical fiction. Initially intended as a play, the book was originally set in Victorian England before Twain decided to set it further back in time, in 1547. It was first published in 1881 in Canada, before its 1882 publication in the United States. The book bears a dedication to Twain’s daughters, Susie and Clara Clemens, and is subtitled “A Tale for Young People of All Ages”. 

Today we are reading Herbert George Wells’s novel «The Invisible Man».

«The Invisible Man» (1897) is one of Wells’s earliest and best known science-fiction novels. The invisible man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction.

Today we are reading Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy”.

A tremendous bestseller when it was published in 1925, “An American Tragedy” is the culmination of Theodore Dreiser's elementally powerful fictional art. Taking as his point of departure a notorious murder case of 1910, Dreiser immersed himself in the social background of the crime to produce a book that is both a remarkable work of reportage and a monumental study of character.