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The Brickfield (Hesperus Modern Voices)
By L. P. Hartley. 1964
A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a…
chance meeting, and idyllic love affair, with Lucy. A disused brickfield is the scene of their clandestine meetings, and it is there that Richard finds her drowned in a muddy pool. Forced by circumstances to look back on these days, Richard finds himself recounting this episode to his secretary. Its shattering significance throughout the rest of his life is put into remarkable perspective by the unusual framework with which Hartley has enclosed his story. Weaving skilfully through past events while staying awake to the present, The Brickfield is a masterly evocation of childhood and its influences on the adult mind.Anne of the Island (Anne Shirley #3)
By L. M. Montgomery. 2014
Anne Shirley is off to college in this artfully packaged edition of the third book in the Anne of Green…
Gables series.Anne is finally off to Redmond College! While she's sad to be leaving Marilla and the twins, she's excited to finally become a full-fledged BA, and to embark on new adventures with the other Avonlea folks attending Redmond--a group that includes her friend Gilbert Blythe. At Redmond Anne meets Philippa Gordon, a frivolous but charming girl who pulls Anne into the center of the Redmond social scene. As Anne becomes the object of several boys' affection, she's faced with numerous proposals she can't possibly accept. Then Gilbert ruins everything by declaring his own feelings for her, and Anne worries that she's lost one of her best friends...and possibly so much more. This addition to the renowned Anne of Green Gables series makes a wonderful gift and keepsake.Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll, Mallory Loehr. 2009
Alice can't believe her eyes when a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and carrying a pocket watch dashes by her.…
She chases after him, down a rabbit hole to a strange land full of exotic creatures, like the Mad Hatter and March Hare, a smiling Cheshire cat, a philosophical caterpillar, and a tempermental croquet-playing queen. Alice can hardly keep track of all the curious characters, let alone herself!Lewis Carroll's classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been adapted to an easier reading level for Stepping Stones, while keeping all the fun, nonsense, and fantastic twists of the original book.From the Trade Paperback edition.The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson, Elaine Stritch. 1972
The Herdmans are the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, smoke cigars, swear, and hit…
little kids. So no one is prepared when this outlaw family invades church one Sunday and decides to take over the annual Christmas pageant. None of the Herdmans has ever heard the Christmas story before. Their interpretation of the tale -- the Wise Men are a bunch of dirty spies and Herod needs a good beating -- has a lot of people up in arms. But it will make this year's pageant the most unusual anyone has seen and, just possibly, the best one ever.Henny Penny (Read-aloud)
By Paul Galdone. 1968
Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only…
to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox. This ebook includes audio narration.The Collector (Vintage Classics Ser.)
By John Fowles. 1963
A Journey to the Center of the Earth
By Jules Verne, Leonard Nimoy. 2003
Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves…
German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano. From a scientific point of view, this story has not aged quite as well as other Verne stories, since most of his ideas about what the interior of the Earth contains have since been disproved, but it still manages to captivate audiences when regarded as a classic fantasy novel.This controversial comedy--the inspiration for such modern works as Kiss Me, Kate and 10 Things I Hate About You--follows the…
tumultuous courtship and marriage of Petruchio and the headstrong Katherina. Also included in this editon are commentaries by Richard Hosley, Germaine Greer, and others, as well as a stage and screen history and an overview of Shakespeare's life.As You Like It (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
By William Shakespeare. 2000
ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and,…
as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit. For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hir'd; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.To a God Unknown
By John Steinbeck. 1933
Ancient pagan beliefs, the great Greek epics, and the Bible all inform this extraordinary novel by Nobel Prize winner John…
Steinbeck, which occupied him for more than five difficult years. While fulfilling his dead father’s dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father’s spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph’s prosperity, and the farm flourishesuntil one brother, frightened by Joseph’s pagan belief, kills the tree, allowing disease and famine to descend on the farm. Set in familiar Steinbeck country, To a God Unknown is a mystical tale, exploring one man’s attempt to control the forces of nature and, ultimately, to understand the ways of God and the forces of the unconscious within. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Robert DeMott. .Captain Blood
By Rafael Sabatini, Gary Hoppenstand. 2003
Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice.…
Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels who were fighting the oppressive King James, Blood flees England and becomes enslaved on a Barbados plantation of buccaneers. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his companions. Abounding with adventure, color, romance, and strong social commentary on the evils of slavery and the dangers of intolerance, this classic adventure is a story about how oppression drives men to desperate actions, how fate plays a hand in everyone's life, and how love is ultimately the greatest power of all. Edited with an introduction by Gary Hoppenstand.A Children's Treasury
By Various. 2012
Collection contains The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Black beauty The Wind in the Willows Pinocchio …
Doctor Dolittle The Song of Hiawatha Heidi Alice s Adventures in WonderlandThe Wonderful World of Oz
By L. Frank Baum, Jack Zipes, W. W. Denslow. 1998
This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which…
garnered an immense and loyal following. Also included is a selection of the original illustrations by W. W. Denslow and John R. Neill.Selected Stories
By Forster, E. M.. 1879
Although he is best known for his exquisite novels, E. M. Forster also wrote remarkable short stories. He referred to…
his stories as 'fantasies' and his attraction to myth and magic is apparent in many of them. Like his novels, the stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, and other places Forster visited, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society. Rich in irony and alive with sharp observations on the surprises life holds, the stories often feature violent events, discomforting coincidences, and other disruptive happenings that throw the characters' perceptions and beliefs off balance. This volume includes all twelve stories published during Forster's lifetime.Pierre
By Herman Melville. 1819
With profound moral and philosophical ideals, Melville has presented a novel that touches the heart and mind. The idiosyncratic characters…
are etched into the plot of the novel and fight for distinguishing between the right and wrong. An amalgamation of factors from popular fiction and gothic drama, it is a work that absorbs the attention of the reader.Mysteries
By Knut Hamsun. 2001
Mysteries is a classic of European literature, one of the seminal novels of the twentieth century. It is the story…
of Johan Nagel, a strange young man who arrives to spend a summer in a small Norwegian coastal town. His presence acts as a catalyst for the hidden impulses, concealed thoughts and darker instincts of the local people. Cursed with the ability to understand the human soul, especially his own, Nagel can foresee, but cannot prevent, his own self-destruction.My Antonia
By Willa Cather, Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D., W. T. Benda. 1994
Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the…
great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. The novel is important both for its literary aesthetic and as a portrayal of important aspects of American social ideals and history, particularly the centrality of migration to American culture.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain, Jayne Anne Phillips, Padgett Powell. 1997
The adventure of a lifetime Tom Sawyeras pal Huck Finn finds himself on the run, floating down the Mississippi with…
Jim, a runaway slave. With rich description as well as sharp satire, Twain vividly recreates the world he knew as a child.The Collected Writings of Zelda Fitzgerald
By Matthew J. Bruccoli. 1997
This comprehensive collection of Zelda Fitzgerald's work puts the Jazz-Age heroine in illuminating literary perspective. The volume includes Zelda's only…
published novel, Save Me the Waltz, an autobiographical account of the Fitzgeralds' adventures in Paris and on the Riviera; her celebrated farce, Scandalabra, eleven short stories; twelve articles; and the letters she wrote to her husband over the span of their courtship and marriage, revealing the couple's loving and turbulent relationship. The Collected Writings affirms Zelda Fitzgerald's place as a writer and as a symbol not only of the Lost Generation but of all generations as she struggled to define herself through her art.The Turn of The Screw and Other Short Novels (Signet Classics Ser.)
By Henry James. 2007
Henry James' short novels provide an overview of his entire career and serve as an excellent introduction to his singular…
art and imagination. This collection includes The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast in the Jungle, An International Episode, The Aspern Papers and The Altar of the Dead. Major course adoption potential. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.