Author: Nora Archibald Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Children's stories Languages : en Pages : 100
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Presents condensed versions of eleven classics, including "David Cooperfield," "Little Women," "Alice in Wonderland," "Heidi," and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
Author: Hildegarde Hawthorne Publisher: Hardpress Publishing ISBN: 9781290850735 Category : Languages : en Pages : 334
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author: Angela Huth Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312171957 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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In rural World War II England, three very different young women are thrown together, sharing an attic bedroom and laying the foundations for a lifelong friendship.
Author: Hildegarde Hawthorne Publisher: Alpha Edition ISBN: 9789356012226 Category : Languages : en Pages : 156
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Girls in Bookland "", has been considered a very important part of the human history, but is currently not available in printed formats. Hence so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format so that it is never forgotten and always remembered by the present and future generations. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed.
Author: Hildegarde Hawthorne Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 164
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Two young sisters, Ruth and Rose, are bored. Outside, there is a huge blizzard, and they are unable to go out and play. They live in a farmhouse in Wyoming, and their closest neighbour is miles away. Winters are tough. The two girls meet Honeysqueak, an invisible fairy who tells them about Magic Gate. It is a way for the two children to visit their favourite book characters for a short time. Perfect way to stave off boredom in such a long winter! They quickly find themselves immersed in the books, meeting all sorts of intriguing book characters, such as the March sisters from 'Little Women', Sappho, the Greek poet from Lesbos, Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Rob Roy, Merlin the magician, and so many more
Author: Nora Archibald Smith Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1528782364 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 132
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Boys and Girls of Bookland – Pictured by Jessie Willcox Smith’ is a charming children’s book containing eleven stories of famous child characters in fiction adapted by Nora Archibald Smith. The stories included are David Copperfield, Little Women, Jackanapes, Hans Brinker, Alice in Wonderland, The Little Lame Prince, Heidi – The Alpine Rose, Mowgli, Little Nell and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. This book was originally published in 1923 and contains eleven full colour plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. Written by Charles Dodgson (1832-1898), this well-received author is best known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. A polymath who is arguably best known as an author, but who also worked as a mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer, his most famous works are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Dodgson was a prolific writer who contributed children’s stories, mathematical theses and political pamphlets to a variety of magazines. This wonderful book is beautifully pictured by Jessie Willcox Smith, born in Philadelphia, USA. In 1894 she took classes under the artist Howard Pyle and embarked on a career as an illustrator. She quickly became a prolific and successful artist best-known for her Good Housekeeping covers and her twelve illustrations for Charles Kingsley’s The Water-Babies (1916).
Author: Anne Ursu Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062275143 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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From the acclaimed author of The Real Boy and The Lost Girl comes a wondrous and provocative fantasy about a kingdom beset by monsters, a mysterious school, and a girl caught in between them. If no one notices Marya Lupu, is likely because of her brother, Luka. And that’s because of what everyone knows: that Luka is destined to become a sorcerer. The Lupus might be from a small village far from the capital city of Illyria, but that doesn’t matter. Every young boy born in in the kingdom holds the potential for the rare ability to wield magic, to protect the country from the terrifying force known only as the Dread. For all the hopes the family has for Luka, no one has any for Marya, who can never seem to do anything right. But even so, no one is prepared for the day that the sorcerers finally arrive to test Luka for magical ability, and Marya makes a terrible mistake. Nor the day after, when the Lupus receive a letter from a place called Dragomir Academy—a mysterious school for wayward young girls. Girls like Marya. Soon she is a hundred miles from home, in a strange and unfamiliar place, surrounded by girls she’s never met. Dragomir Academy promises Marya and her classmates a chance to make something of themselves in service to one of the country’s powerful sorcerers. But as they learn how to fit into a world with no place for them, they begin to discover things about the magic the men of their country wield, as well as the Dread itself—things that threaten the precarious balance upon which Illyria is built.
Author: Hildegarde Hawthorne Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484082969 Category : Languages : en Pages : 322
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Excerpt from Girls in Bookland Rose and Ruth were lucky in having the fairy to help them, to be sure. But even without a fairy much may be done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: María Sánchez Publisher: Trinity University Press ISBN: 1595349642 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 201
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María Sánchez is obsessed with what she cannot see. As a field veterinarian following in the footsteps of generations before her, she travels the countryside of Spain bearing witness to a life eroding before her eyes—words, practices, and people slipping away because of depopulation, exploitation of natural resources, inadequate environmental policies, and development encroaching on farmland and villages. Sánchez, the first woman in her family to dedicate herself to what has traditionally been a male-dominated profession, rebuffs the bucolic narrative of rural life often written by—and for consumption by—people in cities, describing the multilayered social complexity of people who are proud, resilient, and often misunderstood. Sánchez interweaves family stories of three generations with reflections on science and literature. She focuses especially on the often dismissed and undervalued generations of women who have forgone education and independence to work the land and tend to family. In doing so, she asks difficult questions about gender equity and labor. Part memoir and part rural feminist manifesto, Land of Women acknowledges the sacrifices of Sánchez’s female ancestors who enabled her to become the woman she is. A bestseller in Spain, Land of Women promises to ignite conversations about the treatment and perception of rural communities everywhere.
Author: Nora Archibald Smith
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