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Reducere. Milton takes us immediately into the action of the tale, gliding over what we all know from the Bible, developing the story's background as he goes...

Reducere. The regiment was also called "Wood's Weary Walkers" in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood. This nickname served to acknowledge that...

And when that mermaid is captured and put on display at a local circus, they decide they must rescue her. As their reward, they are permitted to vi...

Reducere. The regiment was also called "Wood's Weary Walkers" in honor of its first commander, Colonel Leonard Wood. This nickname served to acknowledge that...

Reducere. The narrator reflects with wistful, unjudgmental melancholy on his family, the experience of growing up in the midst of only partial tamed vastness...

Reducere. Carol Milford says "I do not admit that Main Street is as beautiful as it should be! I do not admit that dish-washing is enough to satisfy all wome...

DescriptionThe mixture of journalism, history and fiction; the presentation of a sequence of striking characters; the metaphor of a sailing ship as...

The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the populati...

"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently ur...

Reducere. Margaret Schlegel is an independent middle class citizen. She is not rich by any means, but she and her family have enough to live a comfortable li...

Reducere. This is Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Alice Adams. Tarkington was, in his day, one of the most popular American novelists, with T...

Reducere. The story is set in 2158 A.D., after the invention of a medicine called Anti-Gerasone, which is made from mud and dandelions and is thus inexpensiv...

This volume contains Tales for Children, including "God Sees the Truth, but Waits, " "A Prisoner in the Caucasus, " and "The Bear-Hunt"; Popular St...

The book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessness among ma...

Reducere. DescriptionThe book depicts working class poverty, the lack of social supports, harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions and a hopelessne...

"Twain wrote that Huck was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy he knew in Hannibal, MO. But Shelley Fishkin found an 1874 article where Twai...

Reducere. During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a balloon. The...

Reducere. Description MEADOW MOUSE SMELLS A RAT Grandfather Frog told the story: "Back then there was a great deal of trouble, for someone was stealing -- ye...

Reducere. At the edge of the old briar-patch sits Peter Rabbit -- staring into the sky, his head tipped so far back it makes his neck ache!Up in the sky, a b...

Reducere. "Chug-a-rum!" said Grandfather Frog. And then he told why Peter Rabbit -- and all rabbits -- cannot bend their wrists. He told a thousand stories, ...

Reducere. Saxo Grammaticus was a Danish historian, theologian and author, thought to have been a clerk or secretary to Absalon, Archbishop of Lund, foremost ...

For an instant you think it is temporary blindness, this sudden dark that comes in the middle of a bright afternoon.It must be blindness, you think...

Reducere. The three main characters in Mathilda are clearly Mary Shelley herself, Godwin and Percy Bysshe Shelley -- and their relations can easily be reasso...

Reducere. The hero of the sun-drenched hours, he looks godlike with his golden hair aglow in the sun as he hunts the wild beasts of field and wood. Yet as th...

Reducere. "Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The P...

Little Men (1871) continues Louisa May Alcott's story of the March family. It picks up from Little Women and Good Wives to follow tomboy Jo into he...

Reducere. Twain, aware of his reputation as a comic, asked that each installment appear anonymously so that readers will treat the piece seriously. Originall...

Reducere. DescriptionLucy is a well-mannered Edwardian lady who finds that true love has no interest in playing by her rules. But how can she choose between ...

Reducere. "Machiavellianism" is a widely used negative term to characterize unscrupulous politicians of the sort Machiavelli described most famously in The P...

Reducere. Theoretically, you could find this type of humor anywhere. But only a topflight science-fictionist, we thought, could have written this story, in j...

Reducere. Forster's 1908 novel, A Room with a View, is his most optimistic work, while A Passage to India (1924) brought him his greatest success. He was nom...

Reducere. "Is it -- in this world -- vulgar to ask for more? To entreat a little wildness, a dark place or two in the soul?"-- Katherine Mansfield"There is n...

Like the single volume of short stories Jacobsen published in 1882, three years before he died of tuberculosis, both of his novels are unique in an...

Scion of a wealthy family, the effete Waldo Emerson Smith-Jones has been transformed . . . no thanks to the proper training and education due Bosto...

Reducere. Mrs. Bird thought, as the Christmas music floated in upon her gentle sleep, that she had slipped into heaven with her new baby, and that angels wer...

"My door is on the latch tonight, The hearth fire is aglow. I seem to hear swift passing feet -- The Christ Child in the snow." Reba, the minister'...

Reducere. De la Mare described two distinct "types" of imagination - although "aspects" might be a better term: the childlike and the boylike. It was at the ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book tells the tale of Eric, an orphan forced to work long hours in a cannery until one morning he decides to explore the woods beh...