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Author: Robert Jones Burdette Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334140334 Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Old Time and Young Tom In this discourse I have merely set down in dis order what people told me, and what they kept back from me; what they confessed with boasting, and what they denied with shame; what I saw, and what I thought I saw; what I knew and whati guessed, and what I deliberately imagined. Then, when I read what I had recorded, I saw that I had told the story of a man's life, which is so like any other man's, that the biography of an average man is also called the history of his times. Yet, when I wrote this narrative I gave it a title, because I firmly be lieved I had written a comic parody on human life. I was not old enough to know that a burlesque proves the fact it caricatures. I have said this lecture more than five thousand times. And now, on the printed page, I sadly miss a the singsong soothing of the utterance. For stories are not written to read, they are told to hear, as children love to listen to them before their intelli gence is spoiled by learning to read. 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: Robert Jones Burdette Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781334140334 Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Old Time and Young Tom In this discourse I have merely set down in dis order what people told me, and what they kept back from me; what they confessed with boasting, and what they denied with shame; what I saw, and what I thought I saw; what I knew and whati guessed, and what I deliberately imagined. Then, when I read what I had recorded, I saw that I had told the story of a man's life, which is so like any other man's, that the biography of an average man is also called the history of his times. Yet, when I wrote this narrative I gave it a title, because I firmly be lieved I had written a comic parody on human life. I was not old enough to know that a burlesque proves the fact it caricatures. I have said this lecture more than five thousand times. And now, on the printed page, I sadly miss a the singsong soothing of the utterance. For stories are not written to read, they are told to hear, as children love to listen to them before their intelli gence is spoiled by learning to read. 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: H. Rutherfurd Russell Publisher: Kessinger Publishing ISBN: 9781104416560 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 264
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Philippa Pearce Publisher: ISBN: 9780192717771 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 244
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"Tom is not prepared for what is about to happen when he hears the grandfather clock strike thirteen. Outside the back door is a garden, which everyone tells him does not exist."--Page 4 de la couverture.
Author: Jules Verne Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 14851
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Share the joy of reading to your little ones and take them into the magical land of dragons, fairies, elves and fantasies with this meticulously edited collection:_x000D_ Dragon Tales:_x000D_ My Father's Dragon_x000D_ The Reluctant Dragon_x000D_ The Book of Dragons_x000D_ Animal Tales & Fables:_x000D_ The Tale of Peter Rabbit_x000D_ The Tale of Benjamin Bunny..._x000D_ Mother West Wind Series_x000D_ The Burgess Bird Book for Children_x000D_ The Burgess Animal Book for Children_x000D_ The Velveteen Rabbit_x000D_ Uncle Wiggily's Adventures & Other Tales_x000D_ Little Bun Rabbit_x000D_ Mother Goose in Prose_x000D_ Lulu's Library_x000D_ The Jungle Book..._x000D_ White Fang_x000D_ Black Beauty_x000D_ The Story of Doctor Dolittle..._x000D_ Aesop Fables_x000D_ The Panchatantra_x000D_ Russian Picture Fables for the Little Ones_x000D_ The Russian Garland_x000D_ Fairy tales & Fantasies:_x000D_ Complete Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen_x000D_ Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm_x000D_ Complete Fairy Books of Andrew Lang_x000D_ Peter Pan_x000D_ Five Children and It..._x000D_ Alice in Wonderland_x000D_ Through the Looking Glass_x000D_ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Collection_x000D_ At the Back of the North Wind_x000D_ The Princess and the Goblin_x000D_ Tanglewood Tales_x000D_ The Happy Prince and Other Tales_x000D_ All the Way to Fairyland_x000D_ Friendly Fairies..._x000D_ Old Peter's Russian Tales_x000D_ Childhood Adventures:_x000D_ Robin Hood_x000D_ Pinocchio_x000D_ Gingerbread Man_x000D_ Little Women_x000D_ The Secret Garden_x000D_ A Little Princess_x000D_ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer_x000D_ Journey to the Centre of the Earth_x000D_ Treasure Island..._x000D_ Anne of Green Gables Collection..._x000D_ The Wind in the Willows_x000D_ The Box-Car Children_x000D_ The Railway Children_x000D_ Oliver Twist_x000D_ David Copperfield..._x000D_ Classics Retold_x000D_ The Iliad of Homer _x000D_ Odysseus_x000D_ The Arabian Nights Entertainments_x000D_ Viking Tales_x000D_ Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table_x000D_ Chaucer for Children_x000D_ Tales from Shakespeare_x000D_ Don Quixote_x000D_ The Pilgrim's Progress_x000D_ Robinson Crusoe_x000D_ Voyage to Lilliput_x000D_ Little Goody Two-Shoes & Mrs Margery Two-Shoes_x000D_ Charles Dickens' Children Stories_x000D_ The Story of Hiawatha_x000D_ Uncle Tom's Cabin_x000D_ Pocahontas
Author: Stephen Proctor Publisher: Birlinn Ltd ISBN: 1788851668 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 263
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Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year 'A splendid new biography. How good was young Tom Morris? Stephen Proctor makes his case cogently. Young Tom Morris was one of the greatest of them all' - Allan Massie Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf's first superstar. Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and inexpensive 'gutty' ball was making golf affordable and drawing thousands of new players to the game, his genius and his swashbuckling personality would set a game that had been frozen in amber for four centuries on the pathway to becoming worldwide spectator sport we know today. Exhaustively researched and beautifully illustrated, Monarch of the Green is a stirring and evocative history of Tommy's life (which also includes, for the first time, a compilation of his competitive record in stroke-play tournaments, singles matches, and foursomes) and demonstrates how, in one dazzling decade, this young superstar dominated the sport like few others have ever done.
Author: David Malcolm Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857901079 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 495
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This is the first biography in over 100 years of the great Tom Morris of St Andrews, who presided over one of the most illustrious periods in the history of golf, who - more than anyone before or since in any game - stamped his individual character upon his sport and how, in large measure, made golf what it is today. Born in a humble weaver's cottage in St Andrews in 1821, by the time of his death in 1908, he had become a figure of international renown. When he was buried with all the pomp and ceremony befitting an eminent Victorian, newspapers around the world reported his funeral, followed by his internment below the effigy of his son, Tommy, amidst the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral. In the course of his long life, he witnessed huge social and scientific changes in the world, none more so than in the game of golf that he had, in many respects, overseen and directed. By the time of his death, the game had expanded to become the most popular and geographically widespread of all sports and the essential recreational pursuit of gentlemen. Tom Morris was a sporting hero in an age of heroes, as well as golf's first iconic figure.
Author: Margaret O. W. Oliphant Publisher: ISBN: 9781330924150 Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
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Excerpt from Sir Tom, Vol. 3 The outcry that rose when, after Montjoie's comic song - a performance of the broadest and silliest description - was over, it was discovered that Bice had disappeared, and especially the blank look of the performer himself when, turning round from the piano, he surveyed the company in vain for her, gratified the Contessa beyond measure. She smiled radiantly upon the assembly in answer to all their indignant questions. "It has been for once an indulgence," she said; "but little girls must keep early hours." Montjoie was wounded and disappointed beyond measure that it should have been at the moment of his performance that she was spirited away. His reproaches were vehement, and there was something of the pettishness of a boy in their indignant tones. 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: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Publisher: Good Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 28591
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Author: Washington Irving Publisher: Delphi Classics ISBN: 1788775376 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 402
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Author: Robert Jones Burdette
Author: Robert Jones Burdette
Author: H. Rutherfurd Russell
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Author: Stephen Proctor
Author: Charles Dickens
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Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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