eveal the kid in you through the classic Grimm's Fairy Tales, a collection of 25 heartwarming stories including all-time favorites such as Red Riding Hood, The Frog Prince, Cinderella and many more.
First published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (popularly known as the Brothers Grimm), it was considered as one of the founding works of Western Culture during World War II.
Devour on the best Victorian horror story with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a book originally written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a chilling shocker that was soon burned and rewritten as the complex tale it is today.
The story revolves around a mid-mannered Dr. Jekyll who curiously passes all his riches to a certain Mr. Hyde, an unpleasant character that reeks of darkness and evil. As bizarre incidents unfold in the doctor's life, Hyde's true identity is revealed.
If you are a bookworm, but really cannot afford to lug around books with you on a daily basis, fret not, as Wattpad has seen your plight and brought up the best solution ever. The Wattpad app allows users to read as many books as they want for free without any incurring charges. Definitely the best way to satisfy the bookworm within.
Created by Wattpad, the developer has done the best initiative possible for all book lovers and is doing even more to help budding writers to promote their work. The Website version allows users to sign-up via their Facebook account and read to their hearts content.
Spend that well-deserved personal time with a good book such as Franz Kafka's most popular novel, Metamorphosis.
First published in 1915, this novella was considered as one of the supreme works of short fiction. Until now, this canonical piece is still widely studied in universities worldwide.
Contemporary critics and academics have considered Kafka as one of the best writer in the 20th century. The term "Kafkaesque", which means surreal distortion or menacing complexity, has been formed after the German-language author.
Many people have a habit of playing around with pictures and adding various effects for fun. Well than, if you are one of them Old Photo PRO is the perfect solution for your iOS device. With Old Photo PRO, you will have the option to give a complete golden-era touch to the pictures.
The app was developed by Deion Mobile and is a very casual application for some light-hearted fun.
From the best selling author Paulo Coelho, the man behind the The Alchemist and Veronika Decides to Die comes yet another soulful story published last 2008.
The Way of the Bow, centers around the story of Tetsuya, the best archer in the country, who conveys his teachings to a boy in his village.
Unlike his other works, Coelho's writing here was surprisingly Japanese in style - similar to a master giving advice to an apprentice. He showed a deep knowledge about archery (including its technical aspect), and used it as a metaphor to convey teachings on work, overcoming difficulties, steadfastness and courage to take risky decisions.
Spanish Prisoners' latest release Gold Fools will bind your ears in a psychedelic magic spell.
Hailing from Brooklyn, the quartet is composed of Leo Maymind, Amberly Hungerford, Mike DiSanto and James Higgs. They met in the winter of 2009 and started to create great music together.
Two years in the making, their LP Gold Fools offers nine dream pop tracks that'll surely take you on a kaleidoscopic ride.
Up for free grabs is F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous short story, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
Since its first publishing on May 27, 1922, this literary piece have been repeatedly anthologized in the author's book entitled Tales of the Jazz Age. Because of its popularity, it had been adopted into film by director David Fincher in 2008. The film stars Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
In March this year, Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, a specialist dealer in fine and rare antiquarian cartography and historic maps, donated their collection of over 2000 digital images to Wikimedia Commons. Here is just a small selection of a really great collection. Explore more, and help Wikimedia to categorise them, here. Each map shown below is linkable to the Wikimedia Commons page with more info about the map and higher resolution images. Huge thank you to Geographicus for sharing these amazing images!
