HAPPY PRINCE by Oscar Wilde

The prince in the story is no living prince. He is the statue of a dead prince decorated with gold leaves and precious stones. He is known as the Happy Prince because there is a smile on his lips. But the smile gradually gives way to tears. The Happy Prince cannot help crying over the scenes of misery in the houses of the poor. He decides to help them with his gold leaves and costly stones. The little swallow acts as his messenger, and he gives away all his wealth. The Swallow was on his way back to his homeland when the prince had detained him to help the poor. He still wished to go back but now it was too late. The intense cold killed him. Thus the little swallow lost his life in helping the poor. His death broke the prince’s heart. So the swallow and the prince perished for a noble cause. But their death was not the end. It made them immortal. That is why the angel selected the dead swallow and the lifeless heart of the prince as the noblest things on earth.

Haircut by Ring Lardner The narrator of the story is the town barber, who talks about a man by the name of Jim Kendall. Jim was a man who played cruel pranks on children and adults. Jim goes hunting with a 10-year old mentally handicapped child. When it is discovered that Jim was shot, many people in the town believed that it was an accident, although the author of the story indicates that the shooting was planned by the child, who had been tormented by Jim and wanted to get revenge on him.
The Selfish Giant Summary
The story is about a giant who after a seven year visit with his friend, returns to his garden and scares off the children who had adopted it as their own. Of course, all actions have consequences, the giant would soon learn. Because of the giant's selfishness, spring did not come to his garden, nor did autumn. Finally, the giant realizes that the children are what had kept the garden alive when he awakens to the sweet song of a bird, and peers out his window to see the children, who had snuck in through a hole in the wall he had constructed to keep the garden to himself. There was one little boy who was to small to get in a tree, and that tree was still miserably stuck in winter. But the giant had realized his wrong-doing, and helped the boy into the tree. The giant chopped down the wall, and the children would be allowed to visit the garden whenever they pleased. The giant grew old, and wondered constantly about the little boy, for he had disappeared after that day. Then, one winter day the giant saw the little boy under the tree again and rushed to his side. The little boy had scratches on his hands and feet, which he confided were the wounds of love, before taking the giant to his own garden which he called paradise. That afternoon the children arrived to find the giant dead under the tree that the little boy had once been helped to climb.
Summary of The Monkey's Paw
The story centers on a monkey's paw which has magical powers. It gives to its owner three wishes. The monkey's paw is given to a family of three, father, mother, and son. They wish for some money, and the next day an employee of the company where the son is working arrives at the family's residence and tells the parents that their son has died in an accident and they will receive a monetary compensation, the exact amount they wished for. About a week later, the mother wishes that their son would return home alive. When knocking is heard at the door, the father realizes what has happened and before the mother can open the door, the father uses the last wish. The knocking stops and when the door is opened, no one is there.

SUMMARY of THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE
There was a very good-looking young man, named Hughie Erskine. He was popular and kind. However, he was not very clever and had no money. He kept changing his job but always failed. Finally he stopped working and lived on money given to him by an old aunt. He loved a girl named Laura Merton, the daughter of a retired Colonel. The Colonel would only allow them to get married if Hughie had ten thousand pounds of his own.
One day, Hughie visited his friend, Alan Trevor, who was a painter. When Hughie came, Alan was painting a model. The model was a beggar-man. Hughie felt sorry for the model, so he gave him a sovereign. Later that night, Hughie met Alan at Palette Club. They had a talk. Hughie found out from Alan that the model was actually not a beggar-man, but a millionaire, named Baron Hausberg. Hughie went home unhappily, whereas Alan laughed loudly.
The next morning, a messenger from Baron Hausberg came and brought him a letter. The letter contained a cheque for ten thousand pounds which was a wedding present to Hugh Erskine and Laura Merton from Baron Hausberg. On the day of the marriage, Alan Trevor was the best man and the Baron made a speech at the wedding breakfast. Alan said, "Millionaire models are rare enough, but model millionaires are rarer still!"