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| Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know [Illustrated Edition]
| 2011 Reprint of 1915 edition. Illustrated full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This volume contains a collection of fairy tales from a wide array of classical works, which we have grown up throughout time. These tales are immortal and include the following: Enchanted Stag; Twelve Brothers; Puss in Boots; Jack and the Beanstalk; Princess on the Pea; Ugly Duckling; Light Princess; Beauty and the Beast; Hansel and Gretel; Jack the Giant Killer; ...More
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| Jimmy the Racing Frog
| Jimmy wanted to be a race car driver from the time he was a tiny egg in the pond. As a full-grown frog he discovered that living your dreams is sometimes about learning to take what life gives you and use your experience to do something great. In the end he is able to look back on his life with a smile because he never gave up.
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| Bram Stoker's Dracula
| Not for the faint of heart! Award-winning artist Gary Blythe brilliantly captures the eerie mood of Bram Stoker's uneasy tale, expertly edited for today's reader.Can there be a more terrifying tale than this? The story of the notorious vampire Count Dracula, lord of the undead, who rises from his coffin at night to suck the blood of the living is, undoubtedly, the stuff of nightmares. A lunatic asylum, a bleak Transylvanian castle, an ancient cemetary . . . these are the dark backgrounds ...More
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| Alice in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale plays with logic in ways that have given the story lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the "literary ...More
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| Treasure Island (Oxford World's Classics)
| The discovery of a treasure map sets young Jim Hawkins in search of buried gold, along with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged Long John Silver. As they near their destination, and the lure of Captain Flint's treasure grows ever stronger, Jim's courage and wits are tested to the full. Robert Louis Stevenson reinvented the adventure genre with Treasure Island, a boys' story that appeals as much to adults as to children, and whose moral ambiguities turned the Victorian universe on it...More
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| Water For Elephants
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| Grimm's Fairy Stories
| This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpiec...More
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| GRIMM'S FAIRY TALES (Annotated)
| This unique version also includes the following bonus annotations:- Biography of the author- Historical context of the book- Literary critiqueChildren's and Household Tales is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimm's Fairy Tales. It popularised fairy tales which had in part been taken from the Italian fairy tale writers Giambattista Basile and Giovanni Francesco Straparola.I...More
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| The Art of War
| If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle....These are the words of ancient Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu, whose now-classic treatise, The Art of War, was written more than 2,500 years ago. Originally a text for victory on the battlefield, the book has vastly trans...More
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| A Christmas Carol (the original illustrated edition)
| A CHRISTMAS CAROL is what Charles Dickens described as his "little Christmas Book" and was first published on December 19, 1843 with illustrations by John Leech, which are here reproduced. The story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week. The tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time. Contemporaries noted that the story's popularity played a critical role in redefining the importance of Christmas and the major sentiments as...More
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| Les Miserables
| The soon-to-be-released motion picture stars Liam Neeson as Jean Valjean, whose petty theft condemns him to an unjust prison sentence and life on the run. His luck changes when he meets a priest. And through his compassion for Fantine (Uma Thurman) and his care for the poor inhabitants of a small town, he is able to transform himself. The story comes to a climactic end on the streets of Paris during the explosive July Revolution. February publication date. 4 cassettes. .
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| Cougar Cub Tales: I'm Just Like You
| ALL NEW KINDLE VERSIONGold Award Winner/ MCA Best Picture BookCougar Cub Tales: I’m Just Like You is about a cougar cub brother and sister who, one day, encounter a creature very unlike themselves. They have ungrounded apprehension about whether or not the blind bobcat is “a REAL cougar cub”.By the end of the tale, they realize that they really ARE the same, overlooking their physical differences as they embrace their new friend. It is a timeless story that deals with the everyday issue of...More
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| Frankenstein: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Courage Classics)
| 'I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.' A summer evening's ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine's room, and a runaway imagination -- fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism, and the origins of life -- conspired...More
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| The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Uncensored Lippincott Edition (Solar Nocturnal 2)
| Dorian Gray - decadent archetype, anti-hero of Oscar Wilde's only novel, an underground classic which scandalized society upon its publication in 1890. Dorian Gray, the debauched libertine who retains a veneer of eternal youth during decades of increasingly outlandish vice, depravity and corruption, while his portrait ages and rots in an attic. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is presented here in its rare original incarnation, the overtly homoerotic Lippincott edition, with an appendix sampling Wilde...More
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| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Harper Perennial Classic Stories)
| The first collection of stories featuring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, one of the most famous and beloved detectives in fictionIn the riveting tales collected in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the sleuth of 221B Baker Street and his steadfast companion, Watson, set out on the dark, foggy streets of late Victorian London to solve England’s darkest mysteries and unearth its most closely guarded secrets. In these stories, the beloved detective uses razor-sharp logic and bri...More
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| The Jungle Book: Kipling's Wonderful Collection of Stories (Timeless Classic Books)
| The Jungle Book (1894) is a collection of stories by British Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling. The Jungle Book, because of its moral tone, came to be used as a motivational book by the Cub Scouts, a junior element of the Scouting movement. This use of the book's universe was approved by Kipling after a direct petition of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Scouting movement, who had originally asked for the author's permission for the use of the Memory Game from Kim in his scheme to develop the mo...More
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| The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Time Machine
| This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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| Crime and Punishment (Dover Thrift Editions)
| Supreme masterpiece recounts in feverish, compelling tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own thoughts after he brutally murders an old woman. Overwhelmed afterwards by guilt and terror, Raskolnikov confesses and goes to prison. There he realizes that happiness and redemption can only be achieved through suffering.
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| GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (Annotated)
| This unique version also includes the following bonus annotations:- Biography of the author- Historical context of the book- Literary critiqueGulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's...More
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