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This pocket-sized treasury collects poems that will inspire you take the ideas they express to heart and change your outlook. It features more than 100 poems by some of the world's best-loved poets-Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, to name but a few-on themes sure to motivate and provide emotional uplift for any reader:
• Inspiration
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Many an author has written about their coming of age, but there is hardly anyone who approached this task as uncompromisingly as James Joyce in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Joyce follows the development of his alter ego with painstaking precision, from the state of naive childhood to self-confident and independent artist. It is no accident that the main character's name, Dedalus, is reminiscent of the Dedalus of Greek mythology, who escapes...
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Let the holiday revelry begin with The Nutcracker and Other Christmas Tales, a deluxe treasury that celebrates the Christmas season and the warm tidings that we associate with it. It features 10 heartwarming holiday stories including the title tale, Alexander Dumas's renowned rendering of the E. T. A. Hoffmann original that inspired the beloved ballet. The contents also includes works by Louisa May Alcott, L. M. Montgomery, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea tells the story of marine biologist Pierre Aronnax, his manservant Conseil and harpoonist Ned Land, who – after joining the hunt for a mysterious sea monster – are thrown overboard when the monster attacks and find themselves prisoners of Captain Nemo, probably one of Verne's most memorable yet elusive characters. On board the Nautilus, a technologically advanced submarine that everyone has mistaken for a...
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Excerpt: "Most collections of short stories that have been prepared, for school use, up to the present, are more or less alike in in drawing much of their material from the past. Authors and content alike are dead. Here is a collection that is entirely, modern. The authors represented are among the leading authors of the day, the stories are principally stories of present-day life, and the themes are themes of present-day thought. The students who...
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Great Expectations is a coming-of-age tale with strong moral lessons about wealth and nobility, guilt and criminality, and conscience and self-deception. Throughout, various shadowy intrigues, a classic madwoman-in-the-attic, sinister plots and even a chase on the River Thames enliven the story. Its author, Charles Dickens, characteristically paces his narrative with plentiful mysteries and twists, including the true identity of Pip's generous benefactor...
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Henry David Thoreau may have escaped to the wilderness to write Walden; or Life in the Woods nearly two centuries ago, but it wouldn't be hard to imagine his book sitting on a bestseller list next to Eat, Pray, Love or Under the Tuscan Sun. Writing during the early Industrial Revolution, just when the railroad had reached his hometown, he struggles with the purpose of life, the ever-quickening pace of work, the futility of materialism and the neglect...
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"Life is too short, and Proust is too long," wrote Anatole France in 1913 after the publication of In Search of Lost Time's first volume – at a time when the remaining six volumes weren't even on the horizon. Nobody, not even the author himself, had the slightest idea what the agonizing, drawn-out search for the meaning and essence of art would spawn: a literary universe that tackled or anticipated nearly all the philosophical and psychological...
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Beowulf is one of the most controversial works of English literature. This isn't surprising given that it only exists as a single manuscript that has suffered significant physical damage over the centuries. While other Anglo-Saxon literature survives, Beowulf _is unique in its scale and subject matter. As such, it stands out as an almost lone exemplar of the culture that created it. For modern scholars and readers, it is a vivid epic that hints at...
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Could you commit the perfect crime? Is there such a thing as a "just murder" that costs the life of one person but benefits many others? Can rational considerations silence the human conscience? Fyodor Dostoevsky investigates these questions in his classic novel Crime and Punishment. The best-known work of this Russian author masterfully depicts the destitute student Raskolnikov's murder of an old pawnbroker and his subsequent agony of conscience....
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A Treasury of Irish Literature celebrates the rich cultural heritage of the Ireland with a generous selection of poetry and prose that spans two centuries.
Ireland's celebrated poetic legacy is represented by more than 200 poems from twenty-five of the nation's most distinguished poets, including Thomas Moore, James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Ferguson, Thomas Osborne Davis, Aubrey de Vere, Katharine Tynan-Hinkson, William Allingham, Lionel Johnson,...
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The Call of the Wild turned Jack London into an overnight literary success and secured him a place among the greats of world literature. While London's publisher was concerned that his gritty adventure story was "too true to nature" for the reading public, he was proved wrong. The first print run of 10,000 copies sold out immediately. The novel about a dog who returns to his primordial roots in the extreme, unyielding environment of the Klondike Gold...
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Beauty 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 of stories both well-known and less well-known that are a testament to the power of stories from all countries and cultures to enchant and...
74) Love Stories
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This book is a part of a set of ten books of the Greatest Classic Series containing fascinating and heart-rending love stories that will compel you to go through the book again and again creating deep impressions in your sensitive mind -- all written by world acclaimed authors, such as Hawthorne, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy and many more. Actually, the entire classic series has been aimed to enrich the young minds with the wonderful assets of English...
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Consider an upper-class matron who is planning a party and a suicidal war veteran who sees visions of his dead commanding officer. This unlikely character pairing forms the heart of Virginia Woolf's modernist masterwork, Mrs Dalloway. As Clarissa Dalloway goes about the events of her day, intrusions from her past – particularly, the re-emergence of her ex-lover Peter Walsh – disrupt her peace of mind about her life and marriage. Meanwhile, the...
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Strange is in the eye of the beholder. As proof, we submit for your consideration the twenty-five stories collected in Strange Tales, a smorgasbord of the weird, bizarre, and-yes-strange. Each story is unique in its approach to its horrors, terrors, and strangeness.
If it's true that every reader has his or her own definition of strange, then it's just as true that all readers know strange when they see it. We're confident that you'll...
77) Calila y Dimna
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Calila e Dimna es probablemente uno de los textos literarios más antiguos de la narrativa universal. Su fuente más remota conocida hasta la fecha es el Panchatantra hindú, aparecido hacia el año 300.
En el 540 se tradujo al pahlavi o persa literario, y poco después al sirio. El iraní Ibn Al-Muqaffa lo tradujo después al árabe con el título de Kalila wa-Dimna, en el siglo XIII. Fue este el texto que por encargo de Alfonso X fue traducido al...
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Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights features one of the most contentious literary figures of all time. Her character Heathcliff is a man whom it seems love and hate drive in equal parts. Shunned and despised as a foundling child, the adult Heathcliff returns to his childhood home to wreak havoc on all those who harmed him – and to win back the love of his life. Brontë's contemporaries took offense at her main character's merciless, cold-blooded crusade...
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A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre production
This Holiday Bundle features six entertaining and delightful audio stories for the whole family to enjoy year-round. The perfect stocking stuffer for the audiobook lovers on your list! Each story is performed by a full cast of voice actors with sound effects and music.
Includes Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, The Bell by Hans Christian Andersen, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Cinderella...
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