Periodic Tales

The phenomenal "Sunday Times" bestseller "Periodic Tales" by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information abo...

Swashbuckling tales from the author of }Horrible Histories{, including new readers' notesto help extended learning of the time period.

An anthology of Italian tales covering the period roughly from 1370 to 1630, during which the novella was the dominant form of prose fiction.

Reducere. A pioneer of weird fiction, H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) holds a place with Poe and King in the vanguard of great American horror writers. This anth...

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Got...

An entertaining and accessible book about chemistry and the periodic table. Follows carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the tab...

DescriptionA young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

A collection of early short stories which helped make Fitzgerald's name, Tales of the Jazz Age combines period pieces - the most notable of which i...

The first mass-market edition of this collection of tales which span the whole history of Middle-earth - from the time of }The Silmarillion{ throug...

Reducere. Dundee Worthies, a collection of tales of colourful Dundonians, was first published in 1934, compiled by George M Martin. Reminicences of the city,...

Creator of bestselling }Horrible Histories{ brings a hilarious and gripping story to bring the Viking period to life. Includes illustrations from H...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Viking Tales and SagasTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: Viking Sagas: The Captivating Tale of Ragnar Lothbrok, Ivar the ...

This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre to show the vibran...

Reducere. The Tales of Ise is a collection of waka poems and associated narratives, dating from the Heian period. The current version collects 125 sections, ...

Fairy tales are written to both entertain and educate, and published in the shadow of the First World War, F. A. Steel's retellings of forty-one 'E...

The author of }The Unseeing{ presents a period novel of folk tales, disappearances and injustices set on the Isle of Skye, sure to appeal to those ...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

Reducere. The grand age of steamboats on Keuka Lake began in 1835 and was vital to the development of the region. The boats carried excursionists--Victorian ...

Description'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon...' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature ...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

Reducere. The complete supernatural fiction of a Victorian scholarThe second half of the nineteenth century was a golden age for supernatural fiction and suc...

The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European coun...

Reducere. In this eighth volume of the author's Pennsylvania Fireside Tales series, the reader will find more additions to the considerable collection of old...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short s...

Reducere. Covering the time period from 1807, when John Colter first discovered the wonders of the Yellowstone Plateau to the 1920s when tourists sped betwee...

Reducere. For two seasons, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(R) chronicled the intense struggle of the Federation, fighting alongside the Klingons and the Romulans ...

Reducere. Groucho Marx was a comic genius who starred on stage and in film, radio, and television. But he was also a gifted writer - the author of a play, tw...

Reducere. DescriptionThe sentimental novels of the early national period were considered a danger to society and were criticized for the corrupting influence...

From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Tutankhamen has been buried in his rocky tomb. But there is a plot to rob the grave of its vas...

Reducere. The Ghost of Sychaeus: At length, in dead of night, the ghost appearsOf her unhappy lord: the specter stares, And, with erected eyes, his bloody bo...

Reducere. Rooted in tales both ancient and modern, these vibrant images date from the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration. Edmund Dulac, a p...

DescriptionThe modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, the supernat...

Reducere. The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers (Apophthegmata Patrum) are a key source of evidence for the practice and theory respectively of eremiti...

Written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus in 121 AD while he was the personal secretary to emperor Hadrian, "The Twelve Caesars" is a series of twelve...

Reducere. It's 2020 and children are stuck indoors as the novel coronavirus finds its way into India. A nationwide lockdown is announced and amidst the growi...

Reducere. A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It tells the story of bitter old miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation re...

Reducere. The Bridge to the New Testament covers the 420 years between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New Testament. This period gave ...

Reducere. Tales of shipwrecks have a definite fascination and a universal appeal. They are not only exciting and thrilling but usually contain some element o...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Monroe's owner must leave for a while, he worries that the time apart is going to be tough. While jumping sky-high for a ball to wa...

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave--its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna,...

Reducere. The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story that could be written by somebody like Joseph Conrad...

Reducere. Rarely do books have such a great influence on a genre as Lest Darkness Fall has had on science fiction. Frequently quoted as one of the favorite b...

Reducere. Once again, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn transports her readers to historical romance heavenQuinn's Just Like Heaven is the daz...

Reducere. Once again, #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn transports her readers to historical romance heaven! Quinn's Just Like Heaven is the d...

Reducere. The true story of King Arthur From Michael Fraley comes this history of the famous character known as King Arthur. This fully illustrated graphic n...

Even before its immense population surge, Arlington never dreamed small. In the 1930s, Arlington Downs attracted thousands to its state-of-the-art ...

Reducere. The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley's ...

Reducere. According to legend, Moll Dyer was chased from her burning home by a mob in St. Mary's County in the year 1697. Blaming difficulties from weather t...

Historic desperadoes tell their tales of holdups, shootouts and desperate flights from the law in this chronicle illustrated with many rare photogr...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy (and the dark motives behind them...) in the Victorian ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ralph D. SawyerA decidedly historic figure whose legend was increasingly magnified over the centuries, Zhuge Liang (Chu-ko ...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

Reducere. Roger Williams purchased the fertile Aquidneck Island from the Narragansett tribe in 1637. It was here that Anne Hutchinson, along with William Cod...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second half of the 19th century, two brothers living in Ukraine, both Hasidic rabbis, became fabulously wealthy within a short ti...

DescriptionHaruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both hi...

Reducere. L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been enter...

DescriptionNinjas--Japan's famous black-clad spies, saboteurs, and undercover fighters, equipped with superb martial arts skills and an uncanny apt...

Although best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy did not confine his literary talents to voluminous works. He was also a master...

The Newbery-winning fantasy series now available in gorgeous new paperback editions Since The Book of Three was first published in 1964, young read...

Babylonian myths, inherited in Mesopotamia from Sumeria, influenced by the ancient Assyrians represent a pinnacle of human achievement in the perio...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles DickensA Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall o...

Reducere. "A beautiful, lyrical, and achingly brilliant story about love, grief, and family. Henry's writing will leave you breathless." --BuzzFeed Romeo and...

Neon Revelations tracks the groundbreaking career of comics innovator and iconoclastic auteur Howard Chaykin and the impact of his work on the tran...

Reducere. Should I be concerned if my cycles are rarely 28 days? Why do I often feel so emotional before my period? And how can I know when my period's reall...

Reducere. 'When a man plants a tree, he plants himself. Every root is an anchor, over which he rests with grateful interest, and becomes sufficiently calm to...