floradeck
Complete original works from source-backed editions.
17 of 17 works
Poem
A sequence of questions about the maker of a fearsome tiger.
Nursery rhyme
The wind becomes visible through trembling leaves and bending trees.
Poem
A child rises above a wall and sees the countryside from a swing.
Narrative poem
An owl and a cat sail to a distant land, buy a ring and marry.
Narrative poem
A young hero confronts and kills the Jabberwock in a nonsense-word ballad.
Short story
A practical American family moves into an English house haunted by a frustrated ghost.
Short story
A gilded statue and a migrating swallow help people suffering across a city.
Short story
A nightingale tries to win a red rose for a student in love.
Short story
A giant learns to welcome children back into his garden.
Short story
A talking cat reveals what he has overheard about a country-house party.
Short story
A social rivalry drives an elaborate and badly aimed tiger hunt.
Short story
A confined child creates a private religion around a ferret in a shed.
Short story
A dinner party unsettles a woman’s intense feeling of happiness.
Short story
A young woman moves through a windy day of lessons, family and memory.
Short story
A young couple each sacrifices a treasured possession to buy the other a gift.
Short story
Two old friends keep an appointment made twenty years earlier.
Short story
A woman receives sudden news of her husband’s death and imagines a changed life.
These are historical originals, not graded readings. Short works may still contain unfamiliar literary language.