The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson - not in English Common Knowledge Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll Tales of the Greek Heroes by Roger Lancelyn Green Tales of Ancient Egypt by Roger Lancelyn Green The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories by Washington Irving The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin The Odyssey by Homer - not in English Common KnowledgeĪn Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott Myths of the Norsemen: Retold from the Old Norse Poems and Tales by Roger Lancelyn Green The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics) by Hans Christian Andersen Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Retold by Geraldine McCaughreanĪ Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark TwainĪlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollĪround the World in Eighty Days by Jules VerneĪt the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonaldįrankenstein by Mary Shelley - not in English Common Knowledge The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Srilata Banerjee) Intro by Subhadra Sen Gupta20,000 Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne Puffin Classics: The Burmese Box Two Novellas Lila Majumdar, Srilata Banerjee, Lila Mazumdar (Tr. Her impeccable style and trademark humour will keep generations of readers in thrall. ‘The Burmese Box’ is an action-packed story of a family on a treasure hunt, as they grapple with devious plans and nasty crooks, a highly suspicious detective and eccentric relatives.In ‘Goopy’s Secret Diary’, con men, hidden treasures, a stolen necklace and the secret of an old mansion make for a fascinating read as we follow Goopy’s rollicking adventures in a forest.Featuring two novellas, The Burmese Box is beloved children’s author Lila Majumdar at her best. When Panchu Mama narrates the hair-raising story of how it was acquired and the mysterious circumstances in which it got lost, Goopy decides to find the fabled box and its precious contents. ‘I’m going to find that box, the box that’s been missing for a hundred years … Do you know, there are precious gems in it, worth a king’s ransom? Emeralds the size of a rooster’s egg, rubies as big as pigeons’ eggs, pearls the size of a duck’s egg!Aunt Podi’s treasured Burmese box was a part of family history.
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