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The Wedding Procession of the Rag Doll and the Broom Handle and Who Was in It
By Carl Sandburg, Harriet Pincus. 1978
The Rag Doll was blessed with many friends ― the Wisk Broom, the Furnace Shovel, and the Coffee Pot among…
them ― but when it came time to marry, she chose the Broom Handle. On the day of their wedding, the bride and groom were attended by a fantastical procession of well-wishers: the Spoon Lickers, the Tin Pan Bangers, the Easy Ticklers, the Musical Soup Eaters, and other whimsical characters, all marching along in a manner befitting their extraordinary names. This tale of wedding pomp and madcap mirth comes from poet Carl Sandburg's classic book of American fairy tales, The Rootabaga Stories. Marvelous drawings by Harriet Pincus, a noted illustrator of children's books, enhance the tale. Out of print for years, the book is now available in a new edition that introduces the story and its gloriously antic art to a new generation of parade-lovers, wedding-goers, and everyone who enjoys a fanciful celebration.Charlie de Milo
By Laurence Mark Janifer. 2012
The Enchanted Castle
By E. Nesbit. 2013
Main Street
By Sinclair Lewis. 1999
In 1930 Sinclair Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature, and the 1920 publication of…
Main Street brought him his first serious critical recognition. Born and raised in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, Lewis knew the American heartland as few other writers have. He both loved and despised small towns, and the tension between those feelings permeates this classic novel. The setting is Gopher Prairie, a bastion of prosaic, small-minded, middle-class values. Its newest inhabitant is the beautiful young Carol Kennicott, who dreams of transforming her adopted hometown into an oasis of beauty, refinement, and culture. But Carol is no match for the town's provincialism, and her struggle to overcome the complacency, bigotry, and hypocrisy of Gopher Prairie becomes the author's devastating and satiric take on all small towns.Children's Classics and Modern Classics: A Little Princess (Puffin In Bloom Ser.)
By Frances Hodgson Burnett. 2014
When Sara Crewe, the seven-year-old daughter of a rich and loving father, arrives at her new school in London from…
India, she is nicknamed the Little Princess by her classmates. She has all the comfort and fine things she could want, but she also reveals a kind and loving heart, a lively mind and a rich imagination. When her father dies, bankrupt, Sara is suddenly reduced to a life of poverty and is forced to live in a cold, damp attic, with only her dreams to support her. But will they be enough?Lost in Translation
By Laurence Mark Janifer. 2012
The Camp Fire Girls' Larks and Pranks
By Hildegard G. Frey. 2013
Preparativos de Boda en el Campo
By Franz Kafka, Félix Cortés Schöler. 2016
Preparativos de Boda en el Campo es el fragmento de un relato de Franz Kafka, escrito entre 1907 y 1909…
y publicado de manera póstuma. La historia en sí, es decir, el viaje del infeliz novio Raban a ver a su novia en el campo, está rodeada por minuciosas descripciones de todo su entorno. Este relato estaba planeado como parte de una novela. Sin embargo, luego de un par de arranques, Kafka abandonó el proyecto.Alice Illustrated: 120 Images from the Classic Tales of Lewis Carroll
By Mark Burstein, Jeff A Menges, Barry Moser. 2012
Few books of the past 200 years have captured the imagination of illustrators like Carroll's tale of Wonderland. This original…
compilation features the interpretations of dozens of artists, including Arthur Rackham, Charles Robinson, and original illustrator John Tenniel. Editor Jeff Menges discusses the artists and their work, and noted collector Mark Burstein shares a bibliophile's perspective.Raintree County
By Herman Wouk, Ross Lockridge. 2007
Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life--from the love affairs of his…
youth in Indiana, to the battles of the Civil War, to the politics of the Gilded Age, to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. Shawnessy is the epitome of the place and period in which he lives, a rural land of springlike women, shady gamblers, wandering vagabonds, and soapbox orators. Yet here on the banks of the Shawmucky River, which weaves its primitive course through Raintree County, Indiana, he also feels and obeys ancient rhythms. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of 19th-century America with timeless resonance today.Moby Dick: The Illustrated Novel (Literatura Juvenil (panamericana Editorial) Ser.)
By Herman Melville, Anton Lomaev. 1994
Perhaps the greatest of all American novels, Moby Dick is newly presented with sixty inspiring full-page illustrations that bring fresh…
life and emotional depth to this classic of literature. Every reader knows the obsessive story of Captain Ahab and the famous white whale. Moby Dick is the great American novel, a monument of literature. Based on the events depicted in the “Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex” and the legend of “Mocha Dick," it is the story of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage aboard the whaling ship the Pequod. Commanded by the obsessed Captain Ahab, a man who is hell-bent on revenge against a white whale of incredible ferocity, the Pequod and its crew are tasked with this singular goal, whatever the emotional or human cost. It is a novel rich with symbolism and complex themes. But this mythical adventure has never been portrayed in such a powerful way and with such striking illustrations, presenting a new perspective on this cornerstone of American literature. It marks a wonderful entry point for new readers to discover Melville's universe—and a beautiful edition for the countless dedicated readers of this unique novel.The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries & Impossible Crimes (Mammoth Ser.)
By Mike Ashley. 2000
Tarzan of the Apes
By Edgar Rice Burroughs. 1997
Unabridged classic adventure novel (1914) tells of an aristocratic English infant, abandoned on the death of his parents in the…
African jungle, who is reared by apes. Story includes riveting encounters with man-eating beasts, Tarzan's love affair with the beautiful Jane Porter, buried treasure, much more. Original, exotic, highly readable.The Aspern Papers (Dover Thrift Editions)
By Henry James. 2001
In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some letters and other private documents…
that once belonged to the deceased Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Attempting to gain access to the papers, the property of Aspern's former mistress, he rents a room in a decaying Venetian villa where the woman lives with her aging niece. Led by his zeal into increasingly unscrupulous behavior, the narrator is faced in the end with relinquishing his heart's desire or attaining it an an overwhelming price. Inspired by an actual incident involving Claire Clairmont, once the mistress of Lord Byron, this masterfully written tale incorporates all those elements expected from James: psychological subtlety, deft plotting, the clash of cultures, and profoundly nuanced representation of scene, mood, and character. This volume also contains James's celebrated Preface from the New York edition of his collected works.The Lost World
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 1990
The Lost World is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of fantasy. Two scientists, a big game hunter and a…
journalist set off to the wilds of South America and the Amazon in search of prehistoric beasts. There, high atop an Amazonian plateau they find an amazing land of strange and dangerous ancient creatures. The Lost World is a classic tale of science-fiction adventure that has inspired many successive works and is considered by many fans of the genre as one of the greatest sciencefiction stories ever written.Indiana
By George Sand. 1977
Hunted Down: The Detective Stories of Charles Dickens
By Charles Dickens, Peter Haining. 1996
A unique collection of Dickens stories, rarely seen in print, establishing him as one of the masters of the detective…
genreCharles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination, his detectives have had a profound effect on the development of crime fiction, and Dickens is now seen as the first major publicist for the police detective. Here, Peter Haining has assembled a fascinating selection of Dickens's detective stories. Added to these are extracts from the novels in which the men of the law make their mark, including Mr. Nadgett from Martin Chuzzlewit, the first serious detective in an English novel, and Inspector Bucket from Bleak House.The Warden
By Anthony Trollope. 1998
An 1855 tale of English ecclesiastical life, this work from the author's Barsetshire series relates the humor and pathos that…
ensue when a kindly clergyman becomes the subject of a scandalous tabloid treatment charging him with financial impropriety. Features a cast of amusingly realistic and memorable characters, naturalistic dialogue, and consummate plotting.Emma
By Jane Austen. 2006
Like many girls, Emma Woodhouse thinks she knows best. Her heart is in the right place - but her head…
isn't. Beautiful, clever and rich, she only wants to help others arrange things as she thinks they should be done. Emma has no interest in true love for herself: convinced she's just not destined to find it, she believes she must instead devote herself to playing Cupid for others. Ignoring the warnings of good family friend Mr Knightley, Emma sets out to find a husband for her favourite new companion, the lovely, shy Harriet Smith. But absolutely nothing goes to plan - and in the process, Emma has a lot of learning to do: about others, but most of all about herself.The Crimes of Love
By Marquis De Sade. 1740
Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love, but of its…
crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the cruel rewards for selfless love in these stories; tragedy, despair, and death the inevitable outcome. Sade's villains will stop at nothing to satisfy their depraved passions, and they in turn suffer under the thrall of love. Psychologically astute and defiantly unconventional, these tales show Sade at his best. A skilled and artful storyteller, he is also an intellectual who asks questions about society, about ourselves, and about life, for which we have yet to find the answers.