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Decorative Prints for Children's Rooms
Автор: Brownd Elizabeth King Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092005-05-26
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Charming set of 9 x 12 watercolor prints filled with whimsical scenes featuring stuffed toys in playful poses: a panda and bunny having a spot of tea, a teddy bear and kitten astride a hobby horse, a natty nautical teddy propped up against a chestful of toys, and 3 more.
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American World War I Posters: 24 Cards
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092005-05-26
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World War I posters used to promote the American war effort are today highly prized collectibles. This card collection reproduces 24 of those works, among them James Montgomery Flagg's classic depiction of Uncle Sam proclaiming I Want YOU for U.S. Army.
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Vermeer Paintings: 24 Art Cards
Автор: Vermeer Johannes Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2006 Страниц: 6 Дата загрузки: 21 октрября 20092008-05-26
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Reproductions of 24 of the 17th-century Dutch master's most luminous paintings include Girl with a Pearl Earring, View of Delft, The Love Letter, The Music Lesson, more.
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Daddy Long Legs
Автор: Webster Jean Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2002 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20092007-08-11
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The oldest at a dreary home for foundlings, Judy Abbott finds her life completely changed when, with the help of a mysterious benefactor, she is granted her wish to be able to go to college. A meeting with the rich, handsome uncle of her snobbish roommate sets Judy on the road to discovering her secret friend.
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The Jungle Book
Автор: Kipling Rudyard Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2010 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20122014-03-16
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In this title, the Detmold Brothers' finest wild animal illustrations rejoined with Kipling's classic stories. This is an otherwise modest edition of the first volume of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book appeared in 1908, distinguished mainly by the inclusion of 16 breathtaking colour plates by the gifted artist twins Maurice and Edward J. Detmold. Calla's newly designed selection of the most beloved of Kipling's classic stories contains all of the Detmolds' original colour illustrations. The plates were scanned from a rare set of portfolio prints to ensure the greatest possible fidelity to the brothers' original conception for the art. This Calla Editions Original is based on the edition published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1908.
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Classic Mystery Stories
Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1999 Страниц: 256 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20092001-07-24
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A tribute to the first great age of fictional sleuthing, this delightful collection of 13 mystery classics is devoted to the genuine tale of ratiocination. Included among these gems, written between 1841 and 1920, are Edgar Alan Poe's The murder in the Rue Morgue, widely acknowledged as that detective story; Charles Dickens' The Detective Anecdotes. in which a policeman is the detective-hero Jack London's The Leopard Man's Story, featuring an unusually grisly gut thoroughly plausible murder method; The Phantom Motor, by Jacques Furtrelle; as well as tales by Wilkie Collins, Gelett Burgeess, Susan Galspell, E. C. Bentley, Rodrigues Ottelengui, Barones Orczy, Samuel Hopkines Adams, Melville Davisson Post, and H. C. Bailey. Douglas G. Greene, a widely recognized authority in the field of mystery fiction, provides an introduction and informative notes for stories.
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Complete Poems
Автор: Marlowe Christopher Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092008-08-21
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This complete collection of Marlowe's poetry includes his translations of Ovid's Elegies and the First Book from Lucan's Civil Hero. The celebrated Hero and Leander, left unfinished at Marlowe's death, is also featured (the poem was later completed by George Chapman), as is the poet's most famous creation, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.
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Favorite Celtic Fairy Tales
Автор: Jacobs Joseph Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1995 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091996-12-20
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For young and old alike — 8 captivating tales filled with whimsy, charm, and magic: The Fate of the Children of Lir, The Shepherd of Middvai, Beth Gellert, The Tale of Ivan, Morraha, The Story of Deirdre, The Llanfabon Changeling, and The Sea-Maiden. Reset in large, easy-to-read type.
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Favorite North American Indian Legends
Автор: Smith Philip Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091995-12-20
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Charming stories — brimming with humor, whimsy and imagination — include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog; The Meeting of the Wild Animals, a Tsimshian myth recounting how all the animals came to fear the porcupine; The Man Who Married the Moon a Pueblo story; others. 6 full-page illustrations.
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Favorite Poems of Childhood
Автор: Smith Philip Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1992 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091993-12-20
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Superb treasury of time-honored poetic gems includes Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Eugene Field's Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Emily Dickinson's I' m Nobody Who are you?, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Swing, many more. Printed in large, easy-to-read type.
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Favorite Russian Fairy Tales
Автор: Ransome Arthur Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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Six tales of witches, and wizardry, perilous journeys, wise animals, frightful giants and beautiful princesses, among them the legendary Fire-Bird, the dulcimer-playing Sadko, the iron-toothed witch Baba Yaga, and a goat that sneezes gold pieces. Newly reset in large, easy-to-read type, with 6 new illustrations.
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Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Автор: Dodge Mary Mapes Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2003 Страниц: 288 Дата загрузки: 13 февраля 20092006-04-22
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Set against a backdrop of frozen canals in a winter wonderland, the year's most exciting event in a little Dutch village is about to take place. But will Hans Brinker and his sister Gretel, with their hand-carved wooden skates, be able to compete against their well-trained young friends who own fine steel blades?
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King Arthur: Tales from round Table
Автор: Lang Andrew Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2002 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 сентября 20092004-07-14
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Here are the best-loved legends of the Round Table, recounted by one of the world's great storytellers: how the young Arthur pulled the sword from the stone to become king, how he acquired the sword Excalibur, the beginnings of the Round Table, the passing of Merlin, and many more.
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Pride and Prejudice
Автор: Austen Jane Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2005 Страниц: 512 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20092007-05-18
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Here is quite simply the most handsome edition of one of the finest and most popular novels of all time. It features an elegant cloth binding, attractive full-color dust wrapper, handsome typography, and more than 100 delightful illustrations (plus 61 witty illustrated initial letters at chapter openings) by famed English Victorian artist Hugh Thomson.
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Robin Hood
Автор: Blaisdell Bob Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091995-12-20
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The legendary outlaw and his merry men spring to life again, thrilling young readers with feats of daring and tests of strength. Join Robin, Little John, Friar Tuck, Maid Marian and the others as they live a merry life in Sherwood Forest. Enhanced by 6 new black-and-white illustrations by Thea Kliros.
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Scottish Fairy Tales: Unabridged in Easy-to-Read Type
Автор: Mackenzie Donald A. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 2011 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 апреля 20152013-07-24
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Colorful stories from ancient and modern Scottish sources will charm young readers with the deeds of mermaids, giants and other supernatural creatures. Includes Battle of the Fairy Kings, Conall and the Thunder Hag, In the Kingdom of Seals, The Maid-of-the-Wave, The Land of Green Mountains, and many more.
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Selected Poems
Автор: Donne John Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1993 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091994-12-20
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Rich selection of 73 works by the English metaphysical poet. Included are The Good Morrow, The Canonization, The Relic, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, To His Mistress Going to Bed, Death Be Not Proud, Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward, Hymn to God My God, in My Sickness and many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
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Selected Poems
Автор: Whitman Walter Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1991 Страниц: 128 Дата загрузки: 19 февраля 20091992-12-20
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Generous sampling of 24 of Whitman's best and most representative poems from Leaves of Grass, Selections include I Hear America Singing, I Sing the Body Electric, Song of the Open Road, Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking, When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and O Captain My Captain — all reprinted from an authoritative text.
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The Story of King Arthur
Автор: Crawford Tom Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1994 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 14 июля 20091995-12-20
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Stirring tales of King Arthur's boyhood, his sword Excalibur, the round table, adventures of Sir Launcelot, other daring deeds.
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The Story of the Nutcracker
Автор: Hoffmann E.T.A. Жанр: Dover Publications Год: 1996 Страниц: 96 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20091998-10-21
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Delightful tale of a little girl's love for an enchanted nutcracker, with all the wonderful scenes: Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house, the arrival of Godpapa Drosselmeier and the presentation of the Nutcracker, the fierce battle between the Nutcracker and the seven-headed Mouse King, and much more.
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