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  • Circular Saws

    by Humbert Wolfe ...
    LISTEN. This is quite a new story. It is about a swan that wished he was an ugly duckling again. He was one of those two swans who stand at the edge of the Round Pond, have black feet and holes to put tape through in their beaks. Only they won’t let you put tape through. What he said was (quite simply), “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.” To which his mate said, “Then why do you always eat more ... Read more

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  • Cursory Rhymes

    by Humbert Wolfe ...
    'Cursory Rhymes' is a collection of poems written for children, by one of the most popular poets of the early 20th Century. Packed with intelligent humour, these verses invite youngsters to experience the joys of wordplay and wit. With titles, such as 'Poems Against Doctors,' 'The Zoo,' and 'Seaside,' Wolfe reveals his anarchic side, tempered with simple rhyme schemes and topics that children will ... Read more

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  • Shylock Reasons with Mr. Chesterton and Other Poems

    by Humbert Wolfe ...
    JEW-BAITING still! Two thousand years are run And still, it seems, good Master Chesterton, Nothing’s abated of the old offence. Changing its shape, it never changes tense. Other things were, this only was and is. And whether Judas murder with a kiss, Or Shylock catch a Christian with a gin, All all’s the same—the first enormous sin Traps Judas in the moneylender’s mesh And cuts from Jesus’ side ... Read more

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  • Alphonse Mucha and artworks

    by Patrick Bade ...
    Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the “Mucha style” for the legions of imitators who adapted the master’s celebrated ... Read more

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  • Tartarin of Tarascon

    by Alphonse Daudet ...
    The burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions. Instead of finding a romantic, mysterious Oriental fantasy land, he finds a sordid world suspended between Europe and the Middle East. And worst of all, there are no ... Read more

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  • The Great Battles of History

    by Colonel Jean-Lambert-Alphonse Colin ...
    Translated by Spenser Wilkinson ...
    Colonel Jean Colin was the head of the historical section of the French General Staff for many years. He authored a number of books on the military history of the French Revolution, wars of Napoleon and the great man himself. He also oversaw the publications of many more in his position as the head of the historical section in the latter part of the 19th into the 20th century, as part of a further ... Read more

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  • Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America

    Comprising Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala (the Ruins of Palenque, Ocosingo, and Copan), and Oaxaca (Ruins of Mitla)

    by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier ...
    In "Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America," Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier presents a meticulous examination of the existing literature pertaining to the historical and anthropological study of Yucat√°n and its neighboring regions. This work combines a bibliographical survey with a critical analysis of primary sources, reflecting Bandelier's dedication to scholarly rigor and ... Read more

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  • The Big Book of Christmas Tales

    Enriched edition. Ultimate Anthology - Over 500 Christmas Tales, Novels, Poems, Carols & Myths

    by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Selma Lagerlöf, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Louisa May Alcott, Arthur Conan Doyle, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Alphonse Daudet0, Guy de Maupassant1, Benito Pérez Galdós2, Beatrix Potter3, Emily Dickinson4, Bret Harte5, Washington Irving6, Willa Cather7, Nathaniel Hawthorne8, O. Henry9, Saki0, Susan Coolidge1, Edgar Wallace2, E. T. A. Hoffmann3, Robert E. Howard4, William Butler Yeats5, Henry van Dyke6, Lucy Maud Montgomery7, Anton Chekhov8, Leo Tolstoy9, Fyodor Dostoevsky0, Alfred Lord Tennyson1, George Macdonald2, Aria Caldwell5 ...
    The Big Book of Christmas Tales is a remarkable anthology that expertly traverses the magical essence of the holiday season through a multitude of literary voices and styles. From enchanting folklore to poignant narratives and whimsical adventures, the collection captures the spirit of Christmas with richness and depth. The works, spanning various genres and time periods, collectively reflect the ... Read more

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  • Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes

    The Five Foot Shelf & The Shelf of Fiction - The Classic Literature & The Greatest Works of Fiction from Antics to Modern Age

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Thomas Carlyle, Theodor Storm, Plato, Theodor Fontane, René Descartes, Gottfried Keller, Mark Twain, Immanuel Kant, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Dante Alighieri, Euripides, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Lamb, Henry David Thoreau, Henry James, Samuel Johnson, John Stuart Mill, Victor Hugo, David Hume, Joseph Addison, Jane Austen, John Locke, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt, Epictetus, Alphonse Daudet, Thomas De Quincey, Guy de Maupassant, George Eliot, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jonathan Swift, Christopher Marlowe, Wilhelm Grimm, William Hazlitt, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Daniel Defoe, Aesop, Richard Henry Dana, Henry Fielding, John Dryden, Philip Massinger, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Bret Harte, George Sand, John Ruskin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ernest Renan, Robert Burns, David Garrick, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Webster, Washington Irving, Izaak Walton, John Bunyan, Juan Valera, Alfred de Musset, James Russell Lowell, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Homer, Edmund Burke, Plutarch, Molière, Aeschylus, Michael Faraday, Sophocles, William Makepeace Thackeray, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Everett Hale, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Voltaire, Robert Browning, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Dekker, John Milton, Aristophanes, Blaise Pascal, Virgil, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Simon Newcomb, William Penn, Walter Bigges, Philip Sidney, Herodotus, Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Giuseppe Mazzini, Francis Pretty, George Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Alessandro Manzoni, Abraham Cowley, Michel de Montaigne, Ben Jonson, John Woolman, Benvenuto Cellini, Sydney Smith, Jean Froissart, William Henry Harrison, William Harvey, Marcus Aurelius, Hans Christian Andersen, Thomas Malory, George Gordon Byron, Thomas à Kempis, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Steele, Thomas Browne, Archibald Geikie, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Tacitus, William Roper, Hippocrates, Miguel de Cervantes, Thomas More, Friedrich von Schiller, Philip Nichols, Louis Pasteur, Joseph Lister, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Pliny the Younger, Charles W. Eliot, Edgar Alan Poe, Saint Augustine, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Francis Drake, Edward Haies, Niccolo Machiavelli, Ambroise Paré, William A. Neilson, Honoré Balzac, Alexander L. Kielland ...
    Harvard's Classics Collection: Complete 71 Volumes encompasses an extensive array of literary works, stretching across centuries and diverse cultures. From the foundational philosophies of ancient Greeks like Plato and Euripides to Renaissance masterpieces by Dante and Shakespeare, and the Enlightenment's transformative ideas from thinkers like Immanuel Kant and Voltaire, this anthology captures ... Read more

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  • Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant)

    Enriched edition. A Tale of Resilience and Self-Discovery in 19th Century France

    by Alphonse Daudet, Ava Hayes ...
    In "Le Petit Chose (Histoire d'un Enfant)", Alphonse Daudet crafts a poignant autobiographical narrative that explores the formative years of a young boy in 19th-century France. Utilizing a rich, evocative prose rife with natural imagery, Daudet delves into themes of innocence, ambition, and the relentless march of time. The novel's literary style seamlessly intertwines realism with a touch of ... Read more

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  • L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36

    Bestselling Anthology of Award-Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories

    by L. Ron Hubbard, Nnedi Okorafor, Katherine Kurtz, Jody Lynn Nye, Sean Williams, Echo Chernik, Mike Perkins, Zack Be, F. J. Bergmann, Tim Boiteau, Andy Dibble, David Elsensohn, Michael Gardner, J. L. George, Storm Humbert, Katherine Livingston, Leah Ning, C. Winspear, Sonny Zae ...
    Series Book 36 - L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
    Soar to new heights of Science Fiction & Fantasy.Who are the top science fiction writers and illustrators of the future? The answer is here. Get to know tomorrow’s brightest creative talents chosen by some of today’s bestselling authors and celebrated artists including Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Larry Elmore, Brandon Sanderson, Dan dos Santos, and Robert J. Sawyer.Enter brilliantly ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alphonse Mucha

    The Soul of Art Nouveau

    by Patrick Bade, Victoria Charles ...
    Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known to insiders as the “Mucha style” for the legions of imitators who adapted the master’s celebrated ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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