Puck of Pook's Hill and Rewards and Fairies are classic children's books which speak powerfully to adult readers. Una and Dan, performing a scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream one Midsummer's Eve, accidentally summon Puck to a fairy ring near their Sussex home. Through Puck the children are witnesses ...more »
Model Number: BBALEBBASE_18464DLDA
Author: Montgomery, Lucy M.
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it. The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I, on the May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward Island, had not then heard her say it, and, indeed, were but barely aware of the existence of such a person ...more »
Model Number: BBFEBBASE_15636DLDA
Author: Thoreau, Henry David
This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after Walden. First appearing in the 1840s through the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in Thoreau's environs, as the Massachusetts of his childhood ...more »
As to whether communication with the departed is possible, no discussion is here attempted. The episodes following, from experiences well authenticated, merely illustrate what sleight-of-hand experts have long known--that most mediums, astrologers, mind readers, and the like, can be proven to be frauds ...more »
Model Number: BBR9780553902532DLDA
Author: Anonymous
Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction ...more »
Model Number: BBFEBBASE_11066DLDA
Author: Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs' book The Mad King is set in the days before World War I. In Lustadt, the capital of a fictional European nation surrounded by war-bent European neighbors, the story opens with little knots of excited men standing in the streets listening for word of the rumored escape of their mad ...more »
Model Number: BBSS074324639XDLDA
Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
The exemplary novel of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgeralds' third book, The Great Gatsby (1925), stands as the supreme achievement of his career. T. S. Eliot read it three times and saw it as the first step American fiction had taken since Henry James; H. L. Mencken praised the charm and beauty of the ...more »
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