Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.
“Invites comparison with Crane’s Red Badge of Courage . . . Ithink this is an even better book.”—The New York Times When you read this novel about April 19, 1775, you will see the British redcoats marching in a solid column through your town. Your hands will be sweating and you will shake a little as you grip your musket because never have you shot with the aim of killing a man. But you will shoot, and shoot again and again while your shoulder aches from your musket’s kick and the ti...
Now even young readers can enjoy Shakespeare's stories in a bold new retelling that captures the drama and adventure of the original plays.
The Prince and the Pauper (Bring the Classics to Life: Level 2 (Audio)) (Musicals S.)
by Mark Twain
A peasant changes places with a prince and both youths learn something about "pleasures and palaces."
Song of the Lark (Great Plains, #2) (Perennial Favorites Collection)
by Willa Cather
Thea Kronborg is born into poverty in a small desert town in the American Midwest. One of seven children, she is somehow set apart, a fact recognised by the discerning few, including Ray Kennedy, who longs to marry her but whose fate it is to set her free. With her rugged will and pioneer spirit, Thea carves her way from Moonstone, Colorado, to windy Chicago, from Dresden to New York and a triumphant debut at the Metropolitan Opera. She becomes a great opera singer but learns that as a true...
The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission of the playwright or his company. Nonetheless, it was the first version of the play to be published...
War of the Worlds Study Guide (Pacemaker Classics Study Guides)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Apple classics) (Bring the Classics to Life: Level 1 (Audio))
by Kate Douglas Wiggin
Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
Peridot has fallen, taken to the one place a magick-born does not want to end up. The Descendant's headquarters. Alone, she must learn to embrace her magick in order to break free. Elsewhere on the mainland, with the treaty unsalvageable, The Descendant's new plans hold dire consequences for all who remain loyal to humans. The Resistance have no choice other than to prepare to make a stand and fight. Whilst all hope may seem lost, with the help of her friends, Peridot may be the saviour humani...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Kennebec Large Print Perennial Favorites Collection) (Narrativa74, #11)
by Mark Twain
This novel tells the story of Hank Morgan, the quintessential self-reliant New Englander who brings to King Arthur’s Age of Chivalry the “great and beneficent” miracles of nineteenth-century engineering and American ingenuity. Through the collision of past and present, Twain exposes the insubstantiality of both utopias, destroying the myth of the romantic ideal as well as his own era’s faith in scientific and social progress. A central document in American intellectual history, A Connecticut Ya...
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Tarzan of the Apes (100 Copy Collector's Edition)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
In addition to the text of the first edition of the novel, the New Riverside Edition of The Scarlet Letter contains a wide variety of contextual materials and scholarly essays. Contexts includes additional writings and letters by Hawthorne, as well as essays on the New England sources of the novel and the novel's publication history. Criticism contains early reviews of the novel and critical readings from the 19th century (such as an excerpt from Henry James' book Hawthorne) to the present.
Попалась, которая кусалась. Веселые расскk (Веселые истории)
by Михаил Зощенко
Gf Adapted Classics Dark and Mysterious Tales Set 95c. (Globe Adapted Classics)
The Tarzan Series Volume Two (Tarzan)
by Edgar Rice Burroughs