Festival old and new The people of Britain  have a had festivals for thousands of years. Long ago the sun , the moon, the wind, rain , animals , and trees were all important in their religions , and they had festival for them.  When Christianity came for Britain, people wanted  to keep some of […]

The Roman World In the north of England the Romans built a wall. It was started by the emperor  Hadrian in 122 AD* and took more than ten years to finish. It was 120 kilometers long and six meters high in places, About every seven kilometers there was  a strong camp.The wall crossed England from […]

King Henry is dead My name is Catherine Parr.A month ago i was the queen of England,the wife of King Henry the Eighth.Henry died and we buried him last week in St George’s Church,Windsor.Two days ago,on 16th February 1547,I went back to the palace of Whitehall Which was once my home…  

The Three Friends The journey took place in Canada,in the northwest of Ontario.This part of the country is wild,lakes and fast rivers.there are thousands of kilometers of narrow country roads,a few samall towns and lonely farms.Men from the big paper companies cut down trees deep in the forests.There are Indians and hunters.But most of the […]

pip meet a stranger  My first name was Philip,but when I was a small child I could only manage to say Pip.So Pip was every body called me.I lived in small village in Essex with my sister, who was over twenty years older than me ,and married to Joe Gargery,the village blacksmith.my parents had died […]

The Monkey’s Paw   It was cold and dark out in the road and the rain did  not stop for a minute.But in the little living-room of number 12 Castle Road it was nice and warm.Old Mr White and his son,Herbert,play chess and Mrs White sat and watched them.. The old woman was happy because […]

Halloween town’s Scariest Skeleton on October 31 everybody in Halloween town was excited. Halloween night was the most important night of their years and they were all afraid.Dead people came up from under the ground.Thirsty vampires happy drank a lot of blood.Ugly old witches changed some people into cats and other and other people into […]

Phileas Fogg and Passepartout In 1872, the Reform club in London’s Pall Mall was a club for men only. Phileas Fogg went to the reform club every day. He left his house at 7 Savile Row at 11:30 in the morning and walked to the club. He had his lunch and his dinner there. He […]

In Jail,but free one day in the summer of 1977, a woman walked into my office. I knew her face, but I couldn’t remember why. I’m Darla Clabo, she said.”I worked in the courthouse in 1971.I was there when Danny Padgitt was on trail .”she left Clanton some time after the trail and move to […]

Emma Chapter 1   An Offer of Marriage Emma Woodhouse was beautiful, clever and rich. She lived  sixteen miles from London in the village of Highbury and at  nearly twenty-one years old she thought her life was perfect. but nothing stays the same for ever and even the most perfect life must sometimes change. Emma was […]