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The works of Rudyard Kipling : all eight volumes / by Kipling, Rudyard,1865-1936.;
Departmental ditties and other verses -- Ballads and barrack-room ballads -- The phantom 'rickshaw and other ghost stories -- Under the deodars -- Plain tales from the hills -- The light that failed -- The story of the Gadsbys -- From mine own people.
Subjects: English literature;
© 2011., Benediction Classics,
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The Norton anthology of English literature / by Greenblatt, Stephen,1943-; Abrams, M. H.(Meyer Howard),1912-;
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.v. A. The middle ages -- v. B. The sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century -- v. C. The restoration and the eighteenth century -- v. D. The romantic period -- v. E. The Victorian age -- v. F. The twentieth century and after.
Subjects: English literature.;
© c2012., W.W. Norton,
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The Norton anthology of children's literature : the traditions in English / by Zipes, Jack,1937-;
A collection of fairy tales, picture books, nursery rhymes, fantasy, alphabets, chapbooks, and comics published in English since 1659, representing 170 authors and illustrators, and including more than ninety complete works and excerpts from others.Includes bibliographical references (p. [2451]-2458) and index.Alphabets: from Orbis pictus / Johann Amos Comenius ; from A apple pie / Kate Greenaway ; The absolutely abstemious ass / Edward Lear ; from Dr. Seuss's ABC / Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss Geisel] ; A peaceable kingdom / Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen -- Chapbooks: Tom Thumb ; Jack the giant killer ; The history of goody-two-shoes ; Children in the wood ; The history of Sir Richard Whittington and his cat ; The art of making money plenty ; The New-York cries -- Primers and readers: The New-England primer ; from A pretty pocket-book ; from Lessons for children / Anna Laetitia Barbauld ; New Canadian readers ; Fun with Dick and Jane ; Frog and Toad are friends ; Frog and Toad together / Arnold Lobel ; Letters on the most common, as well as most important occasions in life / John Newberry ; from Eight or nine wise words about letter-writing / Lewis Carroll -- Fairy tales: The master cat, or Puss in boots / Charles Perrault ; The governess; or, Little female academy / Sarah Fielding ; Beauty and the beast / Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ; Hansel and Gretel / Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm ; The nightingale / Hans Christian Andersen ; The light princess / George Macdonald ; The griffin and the minor canon / Frank Stockton ; The happy prince / Oscar Wilde ; The reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame ; The discontented king / John B. Gruelle ; The sorcerer's apprentice / Wanda Gag ; The truthful harp / Lloyd Alexander ; The faithless lollybird / Joan Aiken ; The iron giant: a story in five nights / Ted Hughes ; Jack and the devil's daughter / Julius Lester ; The lady and the merman / Jane Yolen ; The paper bag princess / Robert Munsch ; The phantom heart / Laurence Yep ; Antelope woman: an Apache folktale / Michael Lacapa ; Little Red Riding Hood / Charles Perrault ; Little red cap / Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm ; The true history of little golden-hood / Charles Marelle ; Little red riding-hood / Walter de la Mare ; Little Polly riding hood / Catherine Storr ; Little red riding hood and the wolf / Roald Dahl ; Little red riding hood / Tomi Ungerer ; Little red hood: a classic story bent out of shape / Tony Ross ; Ruby / Michael Emberley ; Wolf / Fancesca Lia Block --Animal fables: The fox without a tale ; The fox and the crow / Samuel Croxall ; The dog in the manger ; The ass in the lion's skin / William Godwin ; The blind doe ; The crow and the pitcher ; The eagle and the crow / Walter Crane ; The crocodile and the monkey ; The talkative tortoise / W. H. D. Rouse ; How the camel got his hump / Rudyard Kipling ; The fox and the crow ; Variations on the theme / James Thurber ; "The ox of the wonderful horns" and other African tales ; Tortoise, hare, and the sweet potatoes / Ashley Bryan ; The sea-thing child / Russell Hoban -- Classical myths: The minotaur / William Godwin ; from The minotaur / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; How Theseus slew the minotaur / Charles Kingsley ; The seeds of power / Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen ; from The adventures of Odysseus and the tale of Troy / Padraic Colum -- Legends: The pied piper of Hamelin / Robert Browning ; Robin Hood and Little John / Howard Pyle ; Sir Gawain and the green knight / Roger Lancelyn Green ; from The double life of Pocahontas / Jean Fritz ; John Henry / Julius Lester ; Davy Crockett / Mary Pope Osborne -- Religion: Judeo-Christian stories: A preface: containing directions to children / James Janeway ; The pilgrim's progress / John Bunyan ; Divine songs for children / Isaac Watts ; Jessica's first prayer / Hesba Stretton ; Hanukkah in the poorhouse / Isaac Bashevis Singer ; from Joseph and the amazing technicolour dreamcoat / Tim Rice -- Fantasy: Holiday house / Catherine Sinclair ; The new mother / Lucy Lane Clifford ; The capture of Father Time / L. Frank Baum ; The phoenix and the carpet / E. Nesbit ; Playing Beattie Bow / Ruth Park ; The book of three / Lloyd Alexander ; Summer reading is killing me / Jon Scieszka -- Science fiction: The stolen body / H. G. Wells ; Podkayne of Mars: her life and times / Robert A. Heinlein ; The last Super Bowl game / George R. R. Martin ; Of mist, and grass, and sand / Vonda N. McIntyre ; The bleeding man / Craig Kee Strete --Picture books: Black and white: from Millions of cats / Wanda Gag ; from The story of Ferdinand / Munro Leaf, Illustrator: Robert Lawson ; from Make way for ducklings / Robert McCloskey ; from Little Tim and the brave sea captain / Edward Ardizzone ; from The shrinking of Treehorn / Florence Parry Heide, illustrator: Edward Gorey ; from Dinner at Alberta's / Russell Hoban, illustrator: James Marshall ; from The highwayman / Alfred Noyes, illustrator: Charles Keeping ; from The dark-thirty: southern tales of the supernatural / Patricia C. McKissack, illustrator: Brian Pinkey ; from The mysteries of Harris Burdick / Chris Van Allsburg ; BAAA / David McCaulay. Colors: from Struwwelpeter / Heinrich Hoffman ; from Under the window / Kate Greenaway ; from Sing a song for sixpence / Randoph Caldecott ; from The real mother goose / Blanche Fisher Wright ; from The adventures of two Dutch dolls and a golliwogg / Bertha Upton, illustrator: Florence Upton ; from The story of little black Sambo / Helen Bannerman ; from Sam and the tigers / Julius Lester, illustrator: Jerry Pinkney ; from The tale of Peter Rabbit / Beatrix Potter ; from Clever Bill / Sir William Nicholson ; from The story of Babar the little elephant / Jean de Brunhoff ; from Angus and the ducks / Marjorie Flack ; from Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer / Robert L. May ; from The happy lion / Roger Duvoisin ; from Where the wild thins are / Maurice Sendak ; from The snowy day / Ezra John Keats ; from Green eggs and ham / Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss Geisel] ; from Frog and Toad are friends / Arnold Lobel ; from Fungus the bogeyman / Raymond Briggs ; from The very hungry caterpillar / Eric Carle ; from Rosie's walk / Pat Hutchins ; from How Tom beat Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen / Russell Hoban, illustrator: Quentin Blake ; from The snowman / Raymond Briggs ; from John Brown, Rose, and the midnight cat / Jenny Wagner, illustrator Ron Brooks ; from Each peach pear plum / Allan Ahlberg, illustrator Janet Ahlberg ; from Come away from the water, Shirley / John Burningham ; from The ox-cart man / Donald Hall, illustrator Barbara Cooney ; from Possum magic / Mem Fox, illustrator: Julie Vivas ; from Merry Christmas, Ernest and Celestine / Gabrielle Vincent [Monique Martin] ; from I hate my teddy bear / David McKee ; from Lizzy's lion / Dennis Lee, illustrator: Mary-Louise Gay ; from Hairy Maclary's caterwaul caper / Lynley Dodd ; from Black and white / David Macaulay ; from The stinky cheese man and other fairly stupid tales / Jon Scieszka, illustrator Lane Smith --Comics: from Funny folks ; from Impossible adventures ; from The yellow kid, no. 1 / Richard F. Outcault ; from Little Nemo in slumberland / Winsor McCay ; from The funnies, no. 1 ; from Tintin in the land of the Soviets ; from Tintin in America / Herge [Georges Remi] ; from Mickey Mouse and the pirate submarine / Walt Disney and Floyd Gottfredson ; William Blake's inn for innocent and experienced travelers ; The wise cow makes way, room, and believe ; Blake leads a walk on the Milky Way / Nancy Willard ; 17 kings and 42 elephants / Margaret Mahy -- Verse: Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book / Christina Rossetti ; A child's garden of verses / Robert Louis Stevenson ; Peacock pie / Walter de la Mare ; The penny fiddle / Robert Graves ; The bat-poet / Randall Jarrell ; Early in the morning: a collection of new poems / Charles Causley ; Some of the days of Everett Anderson / Lucille Clifton ; Confetti: poems for children / Pat Mora ; Carver: a life in poems / Marilyn Nelson ; Come on in to my tropical garden / Grace Nichols -- Plays: Peter Pan, or, The boy who would not grow up / J. M. Barrie ; A Christmas carol / Barbara Field ; Dragonwings / Laurence Yep -- Books of instruction: from A present for an apprentice; or, A sure guide to gain both esteem and an estate / John Barnard ; Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son / Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield ; Don't's for girls: a manual of mistakes / Minna Thomas Antrim ; The child: a mother's advice to her daughters / Dora Langlois ; from Rovering to success: a book of life-sport for young men / Robert Baden-Powell ; from It's perfectly normal / Robie H. Harris, illustrator Michael Emberley -- Life writing: Women worth emulating / Clara L. Balfour ; A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / Charlotte Mary Yonge ; The Brownies' Book ; The diary of a young girl / Anne Frank ; Homesick: my own story / Jean Fritz ; Benjamin Franklin: the new American / Milton Meltzer -- Adventure stories: The adventures of Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe ; Raggylug: the story of a cottontail rabbit / Ernest Thompson Seton ; Winnie-the-pooh / A. A. Milne ; James Bowie and his famous knife / Shannon Garst ; From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler / E. L. Konigsburg --School stories: from The governess, or, The little female academy / Sarah Fielding ; Tom Brown's schooldays / Thomas Hughes ; Stalky & co. / Rudyard Kipling ; In school / Evelyn Sharp ; The hundred dresses / Eleanor Estes ; The present takers / Aidan Chambers ; My name is Maria Isabel / Alma Flor Ada ; Tweedledum and Tweedledead / Tim Wynne-Jones ; Bronx masquerade / Nikki Grimes -- Domestic fiction: from Original stories from real life / Mary Wollstonecraft ; Lazy Lawrence ; The birth-day present / Maria Edgeworth ; from The history of the Fairchild family, or, The child's manual / Mary Martha Sherwood ; A patchwork fever / Charlotte Mary Yonge ; Psyche's art / Louisa May Alcott ; Editha's burglar / Frances Hodgson Burnett ; Each in his own tongue / L. M. Montogmery ; Ramona and her father / Beverly Cleary ; Yang the youngest and his terrible ear / Lensey Namioka ; The hockey sweater / Roch Carrier ; Roll of thunder, hear my cry / Mildred D. Taylor ; Out / Bruce Brooks.
Subjects: Children's literature, English.; Children's literature, American.; Literature;
© c2005., W.W. Norton,
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A Hallowe'en anthology : literary and historical writings over the centuries / by Morton, Lisa,1958-;
"Works on the history of Halloween, from pre-Christian Celtic myths to early 20th century articles, entries include poems, short stories, sections from 19th and 20th century folklore books, a one-act play, Irish and Scottish folk tales, and the first book on Halloween ever published. Annotations make the original source materials more palatable for modern readers"--Provided by publisher.Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204) and index.Three Celtic Samhain Myths (800 B.C. -- A.C. 500, adapted by Lady Gregory) -- Tamlane (1548, adapted by Sir Walter Scott) -- Flyting Against Polwart (Alexander Montgomerie, 1584) -- Hallowe'en (Robert Burns, 1785) -- Of Allhallow Even (from Observations on Popular Antiquities, John Brand, 1810) -- Hallowe'en at Balmoral Castle (1869) -- October 31 (from Chamber's Book of Days, R. Chambers, 1869) -- Hallowe'en (from Godey's Lady's Book and Magazine, Helen Elliott, 1870) -- The Return of the Native (excerpt, Thomas Hardy, 1878) -- Halloween: A Threefold Chronicle (from Harper's Monthly Magazine, William Sharp, 1886) -- Three stories from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland (Lady Wilde, 1887) -- Elsie's Hallowe'en Experience (Mary D. Brine, 1888) -- Guleesh na Guss dhu (from Beside the Fire: A Collection of Irish Gaelic Folk Stories adapted by Douglas Hyde, 1890) -- Hallowe'en: How to Celebrate It (Martha Russell Orne, 1898) -- The Young Man in the Fairy Knoll (from Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland Collected Entirely from Oral Sources, John Gregorson Campbell, 1900) -- Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (excerpt from Volume I, Sir John Rhys, 1901) -- Samhain, Hallowmas (excerpt from Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, John Gregorson Campbell, 1902) -- More Folklore from the Hebrides (excerpt from Folk-lore Volume XIII, A. Goodrich-Freer, 1902) -- A European Custom of Pagan Times Brought Over to America (Halloween at Chicago) (from Internationaler Amerikanisten-Kongress, Jonkheer L.C. van Panhuys, s'Gravenhage, 1904) -- The Ignis Fatuus, Its Character and Legendary Origin (from The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 17, no. 65, William Wells Newell, 1904) -- Hallowmass (from Faiths and Folklore: A Dictionary of National Beliefs, Superstitions and Popular Customs ..., Volume 1, W. Carew Hazlitt, 1905) -- Hallowe'en (from The School Arts Book, Volume Five, Emma Woodman, 1906) -- Hallowe'en (from Pleas of the Negro Soldier and a Hundred Other Poems, Corporal Charles Frederick White, 1908) -- The Hallowe'en Fires (from The Golden Bough, Part VII: Balder the Beautiful, Volume I, Sir James G. Frazer, 1913) -- Who Was Scared? (from The Complete Hallowe'en Book, Elizabeth F. Guptill, 1915) -- In Brittany and France (from The Book of Hallowe'en, Ruth Edna Kelley, 1919) -- Present-Day Mumming at Brooklyn (from English Pageantry: An Historical Outline, Robert Withington, 1920).
Subjects: Halloween; Halloween; American literature.; English literature.;
© c2008., McFarland & Co.,
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The portable Greek reader / by Auden, W. H.(Wystan Hugh),1907-1973.;
A collection of Greek writings in modern translation presents a complete picture of the Golden Age of ancient Greece.Cosmogonies and cosmologies -- The hero -- Nature -- Man -- Society
Subjects: Greek literature;
© 1977., Penguin Books,
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W is for woof : a dog alphabet / by Strother, Ruth.; Frankenhuyzen, Gijsbert van,ill.;
"Using the alphabet format learn about dog behavior, domestication, grooming, K-9 police dogs, and much more. Simple poetry for each topic is paired with detail-filled expository text. Realistic illustrations complement the text"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Dogs; English language; Dogs.; English language;
© 2008., Sleeping Bear Press,
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M is for meow : a cat alphabet / by Wilbur, Helen L.,1948-; Papp, Robert,ill.;
"Using the alphabet format, the history, care, behaviour, and mystery of cats is presented. Feline facts are also included"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Cats; English language; Cats.; Alphabet.;
© c2007., Sleeping Bear Press,
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Albion : the origins of the English imagination / by Ackroyd, Peter,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-499) and index.
Subjects: National characteristics, English.; English literature; Arts, English.;
© 2004., Anchor Books,
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The Winged serpent : American Indian prose and poetry / by Astrov, Margot,1908-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-359) and index.
Subjects: Folk literature, Indian; Folk literature, Indian; Folk literature, Indian North America Translations into English; Folk literature, Indian Translations into English;
© [1992], Beacon Press,
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The classic treasury of Aesop's fables / by Aesop.; Daily, Don,ill.;
The crow and the pitcher -- The fox and the grapes -- The city mouse and the country mouse -- The swallow and the crow -- The ass and the grasshopper -- The gnat and the bull -- The goose who laid the golden eggs -- The mouse and the frog -- The monkey and the camel -- The fox and the mask -- The cat and the bell -- The bull and the bullfrog -- The stag and his antlers -- The dog and his reflection -- The fox and the crow -- The tortoise and the hare -- The lion and the mouse -- The ass, the fox, and the lion -- The birds, the beasts, and the bat -- The frogs who desired a king.An illustrated collection of twenty fables originally told by the Greek slave, Aesop.
Subjects: Fables.; Folklore.; Fables, Greek;
© c1999., RP Kids Classics,
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