In the little town of Happyville, lived only families of little people of all shapes and sizes. They were all happy except for Mr. Gruffy. A series of events taught Mr. Gruffy a very valuable lesson.

The First Half of the Professor's Nephew Series by M. Addison McEwan, including the first four books of The Rock of Iris, The Crystal Claw, The Golden Ashes and the Spout of Tamewater.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mystery of the Missing Necklace" by Enid Blyton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

"Erika Gottlieb explores a selection of about thirty works in the dystopian genre from East and Central Europe between 1920 and 1991 in the USSR and between 1948 and 1989 in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.

Follow Rylen's adventure as the Professor's Nephew, from returning with the Golden Ashes and the power to heal or inflict, to reading about Cysgard the Olfeist, the dragon monster that terrorizes the King of Enik Veem. Follow Rylen and his friend, Havenrose as they venture out into the fog shrouded Lake Dragkosvete to the haunted Dungeon Isle of Cyllias Ey'e in search for the Spout of Tamewater amongst a horde of ghostly prisoners. With a little help from a previous acquaintance, can the children bring back the Spout of Tamewater to the Gustavor Museum where it truly belongs?

Dystopian narrative is a product of the social ferment of the twentieth century. A hundred years of war, famine, disease, state terror, genocide, ecocide, and the depletion of humanity through the buying and selling of everyday life provided fertile ground for this fictive underside of the utopian imagination. From the classical works by E. M. Forster, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, through the new maps of hell in postwar science fiction, and most recently in the dystopian turn of the 1980s and 1990s, this narrative machine has produced challenging cognitive maps of the given historical situation by way of imaginary societies which are even worse than those that lie outside their authors' and readers' doors.In Scraps of the Untainted Sky , Tom Moylan offers a thorough investigation of the history and aesthetics of dystopia. To situate his study, Moylan sets out the methodological paradigm that developed within the interdisciplinary fields of science fiction studies and utopian studies as they grow out of the oppositional political culture of the 1960 and 1970s (the context that produced the project of cultural studies itself). He then presents a thorough account of the textual structure and formal operations of the dystopian text. From there, he focuses on the new science-fictional dystopias that emerged in the context of the economic, political, and cultural convulsions of the 1980s and 1990s, and he examines in detail three of these new "critical dystopias:" Kim Stanley Robinson's The Gold Coast, Octavia Butler's The Parable of the Sower , and Marge Piercy's He, She, and It .With its detailed, documented, and yet accessible presentation, Scraps of the Untainted Sky will be of interest to established scholars as well as students and general readers who are seeking an in-depth introduction to this important area of cultural production.