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  • The Grandmother

    Enriched edition. Family, Folklore, and Rural Bohemia: A Lyrical Village Tale of Ancestral Wisdom and Intergenerational Bonds

    by Božena Němcová ...
    Translated by Frances Gregor ...
    Božena Němcová's "The Grandmother" is a richly woven tapestry that explores themes of family, tradition, and the spiritual connection to nature through the lens of Czech rural life in the 19th century. The novel employs a lyrical prose style infused with folk tales and vivid descriptions of the countryside, creating a nostalgic and almost ethereal atmosphere. With its autobiographical elements, ... Read more

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  • The Grandmother (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Czech Village Classic of Folk Customs, Rural Family Life, and National Revival

    by Božena Němcová, Laurel Emberford ...
    Translated by Frances Gregor ...
    The Grandmother is Božena Němcová's luminous portrait of rural Czech life, centered on the wise, devout, and quietly authoritative grandmother who becomes the moral heart of a household in the Ratibořice valley. Blending idyllic realism, folk memory, ethnographic detail, and sentimental prose, the novel preserves customs, speech, songs, and seasonal rituals while shaping them into a national ... Read more

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  • The Grandmother (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A granddaughter's journey through 19th-century Bohemia: Czech rural life, family and tradition, realism meets romanticism, national awakening

    by Božena Němcová, Cassia Vexley, Nathan Ford ...
    Translated by Frances Gregor ...
    The Grandmother (Babička, 1855) unfolds in the Ratibořice valley, where the eponymous matriarch anchors a cottage world of seasonal labor, folktale wisdom, and communal rites. Němcová interweaves pastoral realism with gentle idealization, setting vivid ethnographic scenes—feasts, spinning evenings, harvest customs—against darker counterpoints such as Viktorka's ballad-like tragedy. Her supple, ... Read more

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  • The Grandmother

    Enriched edition. A Tale of Love, Tradition, and Time in 19th-Century Bohemia

    by Božena Němcová, Cassia Vexley ...
    Translated by Frances Gregor ...
    In her seminal work, *The Grandmother*, Božena Němcová weaves a rich tapestry of Czech rural life through the lens of childhood reminiscence. The novel, imbued with strong elements of folklore and national identity, is characterized by its lyrical prose and vivid imagery. Set in the 19th century, it blends autobiographical elements with fiction, allowing the narrative to resonate with a deep sense ... Read more

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    by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
    First published in the year 1885, the present book 'A Child's Garden of Verses' is a collection of children's poetry written by famous writer Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems are written in the style of pre-realism era, and depict real time situations with utmost innocence on behalf of children. ... Read more

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  • Murther and Walking Spirits

    by Robertson Davies ...
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  • Child Whispers

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Enid Blyton ...
    Child Whispers (published in 1922) is the first published work of the English children's author Enid Blyton, illustrated by her childhood friend and collaborator Phyllis Chase. It is a collection of 28 poems, and one of Blyton's most popular and best-known poetry books. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. ... Read more

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  • The Velveteen Rabbit. ILLUSTRATED (Mobi Classics)

    by Williams,Margery ...
    Illustrations by William Nicholson The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Become Real is a children's novel written by Margery Williams and illustrated by William Nicholson. It chronicles the story of a stuffed rabbit and his quest to become real through the love of his owner. The book was first published in 1922 and has been republished many times since. - Excerpted from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia ... Read more

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  • The Selected Poems of Robert Frost

    by Robert Frost ...
    The best-loved poems from one of American literature's most towering figures No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost. From "The Road Not Taken" to "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," he refined and even defined our sense of what poetry is and what it can do.In this volume the folowing poems are selected;Out, Out.A Girl’s Garden.After Apple Picking.Birches.Dust of Snow.Fire ... Read more

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  • Nobody Leaves

    Impressions of Poland

    by Ryszard Kapuscinski ...
    Translated by William Brand ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka' - Jonathan MillerRegarded as a central part of Kapuscinski's work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writer's mastery of literary reportageWhen the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign ... Read more

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  • A Very Scandinavian Christmas

    The Greatest Nordic Holiday Stories of All Time

    by Hans Christian Andersen, Hjalmar Söderberg, Selma Lagerlöf, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, August Strindberg, Johan Krohn, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hans Aanrud, Vigdis Hjorth, O. E. Rölvaag, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Jørgen Moe, Zachris Topelius ...
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    A smorgasbord of Christmas stories by writers from Hans Christian Andersen to August Strindberg to Karl Ove Knausgaard.This collection brings together the best Scandinavian holiday stories, including classics by Hans Christian Andersen of Denmark; Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, August Strindberg and Hjalmar Söderberg of Sweden; as well as the popular contemporary Norwegian author Karl Ove ... Read more

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  • Sixty Stories

    by Donald Barthelme ...
    Sixty Stories brings together Barthelme’s most famous works and hidden gems—a dazzling, subversive collection where language bends, reality warps, and the absurd reigns supreme.With these subversive, razor-sharp stories, Donald Barthelme dismantles the familiar and rearranges it into something dazzlingly strange. Sixty Stories is a literary fun house where language is bent, meaning is slippery, ... Read more

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