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Our Christmas traditions owe much to the festivities described in "A Christmas Carol". In this beautiful boxed set, Dickens' magical novella is joined by two further Christmas stories that he wrote for Household Words - "The Chimes" and "The Cricket on the Hearth". This volume, together with the perennial childhood classics "Alice in Wonderland" & "Through the Looking-Glass" and "The Wizard of Oz" comprise this collection which is the perfect Christmas gift for children and adults alike.
Tells the story of one soldier's experience of a battle in the American Civil War, and presents warfare in a direct, impressionistic way that was startlingly innovative at the time.
Hu Shih (1891-1962),. In the 1910s, Hu studied at Cornell University and later Columbia University, both in the United States. At Columbia, he was greatly influenced by his professor, John Dewey, and became a lifelong advocate of pragmatic evolutionary change. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1917 and returned to lecture at Peking University. Hu soon became one of the leading and most influential intellectuals during the May Fourth Movement and later the New Culture Movement. His most widely recognized achievement during this period was as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese. Hu Shih was the Republic of C...
After three years of being presumed dead, Sherlock Holmes returns to investigate 13 mysterious cases in this enthralling collection of short stories. After his ill-fated confrontation with his formidable enemy, Professor Moriarty, at the Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes was presumed dead. Over three years later, Holmes reappears, unharmed, in ‘The Adventure of the Empty House’. Reuniting with Watson, the detective reveals how he defeated Moriarty and the sleuthing duo embark on a tantalising series of adventures. This edition features the original illustrations by Charles R. Macauley. The stories featured in this volume include: - The Adventure of the Empty House - The Adventure of the...
London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of the great city over recent centuries, through diary entries, with quotations, poems, essays and extracts from great works written in its honour. It is beautifully illustrated with drawings and engravings from distinguished artists, including Gustave Doré, George Cruikshank, James McNeill Whistler and Hugh Thomson, and contains contemporary prints and photographs. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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This handy reference guide contains an semi-exhaustive list of Easton Press books. It contains more than 3,000 entries of Easton Press titles, both in-print and out-of-print. The Collector's Guide to Easton Press Books provides numerous lists of Easton Press collections and is broken down by sets and series. It also includes many stand-alone titles as well as signed, first, and limited editions. In this well-organized reference guide, Easton Press collectors will discover numerous out-of-print titles they've likely never heard of but surely will want to add to their libraries to complete their collections. The following are just a few of the series found in the Collector's Guide to Easton Pr...
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