A Streetcar Named Desire: Penguin Modern Classics by Tennessee Williams
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Series
Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, brutish husband Stanley. Eve ...Show more
Ten Poems about Hats by VARIOUS AUTHORS
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Category: Classics
Coco Chanel declared a hat to be essential when lunching with people one didn't know very well. These days such pretensions may seem old hat but we still set store by this quintessentially personal item of clothing. In these pages we encounter hats of all shapes and sizes. There's a grandfather's belove ...Show more
Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas; Sally Minogue (Introductions and notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
Under Milk Woodis Dylan Thomas's best-known and best-loved work, his radio play completed in 1953 at the very end of his life. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dogis his first collection solely of short stories, published in 1940. These two works show us his remarkable creative brilliance at the start ...Show more
African Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Delightful and ingenious stories from throughout the continent of Africa.A Gorgeous Collector's Edition of folk and fairy tales from the continent of Africa, with stories from regions now marked as modern nations such as Libya, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Rwanda, w ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics) by Lewis Carroll
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Category: Classics | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most celebrated children's books of all time. In this edition Lewis Carroll's original story of little Alice's tumble down a rabbit hole is brought to life by stunning illustrations from John Tenniel. The book also features an elegant bonded-leather binding ...Show more
Central African Folktales by J. K. Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
From the beating heart of Central Africa comes a collection to join East African, West African and Southern African Folktales Featuring stories such as The Prince Who Insisted on Possessing the Moon, The Dog Came to Live with Man, and The Legend of the Cunning Terrapin and the Crane, tales from Cent ...Show more
Chinese Folktales by J. K. Jackson (Editor)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
Chinese Folklore is drawn from over three thousand years of storytelling, with early legends of the gods and heroes, weird mysteries of sorcery and elemental forces, tales of the land and the animals within, and delightful sketches of love. Fantasy and philosophy often play important roles as the young ...Show more
Czech Folktales by Jake Jackson (Editor); Rajendra Chitnis (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: The\World's Greatest Myths and Legends Ser.
The Czech people trace their roots through medieval Bohemia and further back to the ancient Western Slavs before the start of the Viking Age. Their lively stories are parables and moral fables, rich with satire and the weave of determination in the face of grim reality. With a new introduction this new ...Show more
Dreams: A Literary Anthology: William Blake, Charlotte Bronte, Sigmund Freud, Homer, Helen Keller and Others by BOB BLAISDELL
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Category: Classics
The mysterious power of dreams has always fascinated humanity. Theories of interpretation, meaning, and symbolism have varied, yet their intrigue remains eternal. This captivating anthology of dreams represents the experiences of great authors and characters as well as their nighttime wanderings, awaken ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The epic battle between man and monster reaches its greatest pitch in the famous story of Frankenstein. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor himself to the very brink. ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward Seidensticker (Translator)
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Category: Classics
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki's wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.'We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates... Were it not for shadows, there would be no ...Show more
Irish Folk & Fairy Tales: Ancient Wisdom, Fables & Folkore by J. K. JACKSON
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Category: Classics | Series: Flame Tree Collector's Editions Ser.
Fairy stories, especially from the fertile landscape of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of the day. This spritely new collection brings together the fables and stories of banshees, kings, trembl ...Show more