From the Bookstalls of a Nigerian Market
. Onitsha Market Literature consists of stories, plays, advice and moral discourses published primarily in the 1960s by local presses in the lively market town of Onitsha
[in then-newly-independent Nigeria
]... In the fresh and vigorous genre of Onitsha Market Literature, the commoner wrote pulp fiction and didactic handbooks for those who perused the bookstalls of Onitsha Market, one of Africa’s largest trading centers.
Examples: How To Write And Reply Letters For Marriage, Engagement Letters, Love Letters And How To Know A Girl To Marry
, Learn To Speak 360 Interesting Proverbs And Know Your True Brother
, Struggle For Money [All full-text links are in pdf format, and some are quite large].
With links to additional resources
posted by amyms
on Jun 4, 2008 -
Over 2000 classic tales and fables
including Aesop's Fables
, Bulfinch's Mythology
, Indian "Why" Stories
, tales by Oscar Wilde
, Beatrix Potter
, Rudyard Kipling
, Louisa May Alcott
, L. Frank Baum
and Harriet Beecher Stowe
and stories about Abraham Lincoln
, Robin Hood
and Baron Munchausen
. And more! The folk and fairytale collection is particularly rich
, with hundreds of stories from all over the world.
posted by Kattullus
on Apr 1, 2008 -
- tons of stories, tales and poems suitable for younger readers: HTML, PDF, and MP3s. From Baa, Baa, Black Sheep to Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, and Flatland.
posted by Wolfdog
on Aug 9, 2007 -