Beecher Harriet Stowe: 281 books

This holiday, we proudly presents to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas classics: most beloved novels, tales, legends, poetry & carols - to warm up your heart and rekindle your holiday sparkle: Works by Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter,...

Principles of Domestic Science; Being a Guide to the Formation and Maintenance of Economical, Healthful, Beautiful, and Christian Homes.

OLDTOWN FIRESIDE STORIES THE GHOST IN THE MILL. THE SULLIVAN LOOKING-GLASS THE MINISTER'S HOUSEKEEPER THE WIDOW'S BANDBOX. CAPTAIN KIDD'S MONEY. "MIS' ELDERKIN'S PITCHER." THE GHOST IN THE CAP'N BROWN HOUSE. COLONEL EPH'S SHOE-BUCKLES. THE BULL-FIGHT. HOW TO FIGHT THE DEVIL LAUGHIN' IN MEETIN' TOM...

Mary Scudder and her mother live a modest life in a community known for its engagement in both religious piety and the slave trade. Their boarder is a famous Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Torn between her Calvinist upbringing and her love for the skeptic James Marvyn, Mary is forced to make a decision about her future when Marvyn is reportedly lost at sea.

Published in 1868, this collection of biographical narratives of "Leading Patriots of the Day" includes chapters on Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, Horace Greeley, Frederick Douglass, and William Tecumseh Sherman, among others.

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

A History of The Byron Controversy, From Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present Time.

Il libro, che affronta il problema della schiavitù negli Stati Uniti, fu pubblicato nel 1852. Le motivazioni che indussero l’autrice a scriverlo – principalmente il “Fugitive Slave Act” promulgato nel 1850 – sono ampiamente spiegate nell’ultimo capitolo (“Epilogo”). Il romanzo...

Who can have taken the Ferguses' house, sister? said a brisk little old lady, peeping through the window blinds. "It's taken! Just come here and look! There's a cart at the door." "You don't say so!" said Miss Dorcas, her elder sister, flying across the room to the window blinds, behind which Mrs. Betsey...

In these sketches of some of the leading public men of our times, the editor professes to give such particulars of their lives, and such only, as the public have a right to know. Every such man has two lives, his public and his private one. The one becomes fairly the property of the public, in virtue...

Written prior to 1862, the "Pearl of Orr's Island" is ever new; a book filled with delicate fancies, such as seemingly array themselves anew each time one reads them. One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror all around the pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island," and straightway...

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur kindle Extrait: Quelle variété infinie de beautés dans la nature ! Que d’espèces différentes dans la seule nature humaine ! La fleur et l’activité de l’enfance, la fraîcheur et l’entier développement de la jeunesse, la dignité...