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Alfred Henry Miles (1848-1929) was an English author, editor and composer. He compiled and edited a number of well known works for children at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. His works include: The Poets and Poetry of the Century (edited) (10 vols, 1891-97), Natural History in Anecdote (1895), Successful Recitations (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Boys (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories of the Brave and True For Girls (edited) (1902), Fifty-Two Stories For Girls (edited) (1905), The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1906), Drawing Room Entertainments (1909), Ballads of Brave Women (1909), A Book of Brave Girls at Home and Abroad (1909), A Book of Brave Boys All the World Over (1909), The First Favourite Reciter (edited) (1909), Original Poems, Ballads, and Tales in Verse (1910), The Sweep of the Sword (1910), Twixt Life and Death on Sea and Shore (1910), Heroines of the Home and the World of Duty (1910), A Garland of Verse For Young People (1911), The Diner's-Out Vade Mecum (1912), Fifty-Two Stories of the Indian Mutiny (with Arthur John Pattle) (1915), A Book of Brave Boys (1915) and Heroes of History (1916).
Edward Spencer's 1913 work is a collection of food essays interspersed with recipes and recollections of memorable meals.
First published in the year 1919, the present book 'Fifty-Two Stories For Girls' is a collection of 52 short stories written for young girls, purposefully, by the famous English author, editor and composer Alfred H. Miles.
"On Your Mark!" is an exciting college, sports, and adventure story by Allan Ware and his college mate. American novelist Ralph Henry Barbour wrote some famous works of sports fiction for boys in the early 1900s, and his stories teach the significance of sports and teamwork.
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Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.
This work includes Joanna Baillie's important poems and critical prefaces, the tragedies "De Montfort" and "Basil", and the comedy, "The Alienated Manor", together with substantial extracts from her other works.