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Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories ENA Christmas Carol is one of the best loved and most quoted of all English language Christmas stories. First published in 1843, it never fails to make an appearance every Christmas in some form. Ebenezer Scrooge, a most disagreeable curmudgeon, is visited by the ghost of his partner Jacob Marley. Marley informs him that he is to receive three visitors this Christmas Eve. They are the spirits of Christmas Past,…
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Aesops Illustrated Fables ENAs legend has it, the storyteller Aesop was a slave who lived in ancient Greece during the sixth century B.C. His memorable, recountable fables have brought amusing characters to life and driven home thought-provoking morals for generations of listeners and modern-day readers. Translated into countless languages and familiar to people around the world, Aesops fables never tarnish despite being told again and again.…
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Aladdin And The Arabian NightsFirst collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as Degrees stories that the beautiful Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over 1001 consecutive nights. They include some of the best-known legends of eastern...
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Stories ENEverything that Lewis Carroll ever published in book form appears in this volume. In addition, at least ten of the shorter pieces have never appeared in print except in their original editions. Included are: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking-Glass Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno Concluded The Hunting of the Snark & all of the poetry, essays, phantasmagoria along with a substantial collection of…
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other StoriesThis volume features all the best-known works of Lewis Carroll, including the novels, Alices Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, with the classic illustrations of John Tenniel. This compilation also features Carrolls novels, ...
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Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass ENLewis Carroll's novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (first published in 1865 and 1871, respectively) have entertained readers young and old for more than a century. Their magical worlds, amusing characters, clever dialogue, and playfully logical illogic epitomize the whit and whimsy of Carroll's writing. Both stories feature the coloured classic illustrations of John Tenniel. Alice…
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Leo tolstoy Anna KareninaFirst published in 1878, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina is the tragic story of aristocrat Anna Karenina and her ill-fated affair with the cavalry officer Count Vronsky. Although passionately in love, the couple finds their romance doomed ...
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Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic Fairy Tales ENBeauty and the Beast and Other Classic Fairy Tales features 101 stories in which beauties and beasts. capture the charm and magic of the classic fairy tale. Chosen from The Blue Fairy Book and other fairy tale collections by Andrew Lang, the selections include, in addition to the beloved title tale, a cornucopia stories both well-known and less well-known that are a testament to the power of stories from all…
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Thomas Bulfinch Bulfinch's Mythology ENOne of the leading popularisers of classical learning in the nineteenth century, Thomas Bulfinch made the myths and legends of the ancient and medieval world available to American audiences through his three decisive works, The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, collectively published and widely known as Bulfinch's Mythology. This deluxe leatherbound gift edition contains not only the…
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Hans Christian Andersen Classic Fairy Tales ENHans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Hans Christian Andersen: Classic Fairy Tales collects 100 of Andersen's incomparable fairy tales and stories, among them Thumbelina, The Little Match Girl, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes, The Wild Swans, and his fantasy masterpiece, The Snow-Queen. The book is abundantly…
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Classic Supernatural StoriesThis volume is a cornucopia of thrills and chills, featuring 25 tales of the uncanny and macabre regarded to be among the finest weird tales in the English language. Its stellar line-up of authors includes Edgar Allan Poe, ...
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Francis Scott Fitzgerald Classic WorksNo writer portrayed America's Roaring Twenties as vividly as F. Scott Fitzgerald, and his stories seem as fresh today as they did nearly a century ago. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Classic Works features two novels ...
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William Shakespeare Complete Works of William Shakespeare ENWilliam Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world s pre-eminent dramatist. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. This edition of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is part of Barnes & Noble s series of quality leatherbound volumes. Each…
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Alexandre Dumas Count of Monte CristoSet in the years following the defeat-mot Napoleon in 1815, The Count of Monte Cristo held Europe in thrall when it was first serialised in 1844. This edition features the complete unabridged text of Alexandre Dumas' masterpiece, a novel of action and adventure that continues to thrill readers more than a century and a half after it was written.
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Joe Sumner Crap Colouring In ENA hilarious parody of the adult colouring-in phenomenon. Because real life isn't an Enchanted Kingdom. Crap Colouring by Joe Summer contains over a hundred pages of age-appropriate adult colouring in. From shopping trolleys to speed-bumps, leaves on the line and detailed grey clouds, here are all life's little annoyances for you to brighten up. Classic British humour with a colouring-in twist, pick up those…
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Bram Stoker Dracula and Other Horror Classics ENCount Dracula has inspired countless movies, books and plays. But few, if any, have been fully faithful to Bram Stoker's original, best-selling novel of mystery and horror, love and death, sin and redemption. Dracula chronicles the vampire's journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his…
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Frank Herbert DuneA special hardcover edition of the best-selling science-fiction book of all time part of Penguin Galaxy.
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Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allen Poe: Classic StoriesEdgar Allan Poe was a master of the tale of psychological horror and the author of what is considered the first modern detective story. This anthology gathers more than 20 of Poe's groundbreaking tales of the macabre, among them The...
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Andrew Lang Fairy Tales from Around the World ENFairy Tales from Around the World is a treasure trove of the world's best-loved fairy and folk tales. It features more than 100 fairy tales representing more than fifty nations, all selected from The Blue Fairy Book and eleven other collections compiled by Andrew Lang. The book also includes more than 100 illustrations by H.J. Ford that bring their magic and marvels vividly to life. Fairy Tales from Around the World…
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Henry Gray, H.V. Carter Gray's Anatomy ENIt so happens that the right teacher can take the form of a book. Gray's Anatomy is one of those few titles that practically everybody has heard of, and with good reason it is a scientific and artistic triumph. Not just a dry index of parts and names, Gray's lets the natural beauty and grace of the body's interconnected systems and structures shine forth from the page. Using sumptuous illustrations and clear, matter…
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Henry Gray Gray's AnatomyGray's Anatomy is an English-language textbook of human anatomy originally written by Henry Gray and illustrated by Henry Vandyke Carter that may be most readable and popular anatomy book in the World literature. Earlier editions were called ...
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Charles Dickens Great Expectations ENGreat Expectations follows the life of the orphan, Pip. We first meet him as a tiny, terrified child in a village churchyard. Years later, through the help of an anonymous benefactor, Pip will travel to London, full of expectations to become a gentleman. But his life is already inextricably tangled in a mystery that surrounds a beautiful woman, an embittered recluse, and an ambitious lawyer. This beautiful,…
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Charles Dickens Great ExpectationsRegarded as one of Charles Dickens's masterpieces, Great Expectations is the story of the orphan Pip and his growth to adulthood. Supported by a mysterious anonymous benefactor, Pip travels to London to be educated as a gentleman ...
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H. P. Lovecraft Great Tales of HorrorBarnes & Noble Inc: H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror features twenty of horror master H.P. Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including: The Rats in the Walls, Pickman's Model, The Colour out of Space, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow out of Time, and The Haunter of the Dark.