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Once upon a time . . .   Fantasy and enchantment await you in this beautifully illustrated treasury which features the best-loved fairy and folk tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, The Arabian Nights, and other classic sources. Its thirty-five selections include: ·     ...

Oz, the Great Wizard! The very name of L. Frank Baum's magical character conjures a world where diminutive munchkins live and work, wicked witches run riot, and the mighty Oz himself rules over an Emerald City reached by a yellow brick road. The Wizard of Oz: The First Five Novels is your passport...

Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionized modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and...

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In glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied at the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace.   So writes Dr. Watson, sidekick and partner-in-crimesolving to...

Scandinavians of the Viking Age explored the mysteries of life through their sagas. Folklorist Helene Adeline Guerber brings to life the gods and goddesses, giants and dwarves, and warriors and monsters of these stories in Tales of Norse Mythology. Ranging from the comic to the tragic, these legends...

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz/The Marvelous Land of Ozbrings together in one treasury-sized volume the first two novels of L. Frank Baum’s classic Oz series for younger readers. In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*,* young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are transported by a powerful cyclone to the magical...

In this 1891 collection of ten stories, divided into two parts, "Before Dinner" and "After Dinner," Hardy returns to his invented county of Wessex for a behind-the-scenes look at the dynamics of country families and the women that hold them together:  "a store of ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence."

The most brilliant period of the Middle Ages, the age of Chaucer was a time of social and political advances, noble daring, as well as independence and freedom. This engrossing volume examines the literature of the era as well as studies Geoffrey Chaucer and his works—creating an evocative portrait of a notable epoch in the history of English literature.

Most lacked noble birth. Five died on the scaffold or the stake. This 1906 work brings ten 16th-century men to life. Profiled are Henry VII, Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII, Protector Somerset, Archbishop Cranmer, William Cecil (Lord Burghley), Sir Francis Walsingham, and Sir Walter Raleigh.  

Published in 1906, this collection of speeches constitutes a forceful polemic for judging art, and literary art in particular, by a Judeo-Christian moral compass.  The author warns against the doctrine of "art for art's sake," finding that its true aim is "to put something ignoble in the place of what...

This second (1817) novel by the English satirist takes on the electoral system of the time, in a plot about a civilized yet silent orangutan elected Member of Parliament for the “rotten-borough” Onevote. The novel also serves as a scathing treatise on romanticism, primitivism, and the idea of the “noble savage.”