Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Ambition, A History
Author: William Casey King
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300182805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Looks at how ambition, once considered a vice, became a celebrated virtue that defines American character.
Dictionary of National Biography
Primary Education
The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Whittington
Author: Alan Armstrong
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307425304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The power of reading is beautifully captured in this 2006 Newbery Honor-winning book. Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he makes an appeal to secure a place in the barn. The Lady’s a little hesitant at first, but when the cat claims to be a master ratter, that clinches it. Bernie’ s orphaned grandkids, Abby and Ben, come to the barn every day to help feed the animals. Abby shares her worry that Ben can’t really read yet and that he refuses to go to Special Ed. Whittington and the Lady decide that Abby should give Ben reading lessons in the barn. It is a balm for Ben when, having toughed out the daily lesson, Whittington comes to tell, in tantalizing installments, the story handed down to him from his nameless forebearer, Dick Whittington’s cat–the legend of the lad born into poverty in rural England during the Black Death, who runs away to London to seek his fortune. This is an unforgettable tale about how learning to read saves one little boy. It is about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling and how, if you have loved ones surrounding you and good stories to tell, to listen to, and to read, you have just about everything of value in this world.
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307425304
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The power of reading is beautifully captured in this 2006 Newbery Honor-winning book. Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use for–two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings who calls herself The Lady. When the cat called Whittington shows up one day, it is to the Lady that he makes an appeal to secure a place in the barn. The Lady’s a little hesitant at first, but when the cat claims to be a master ratter, that clinches it. Bernie’ s orphaned grandkids, Abby and Ben, come to the barn every day to help feed the animals. Abby shares her worry that Ben can’t really read yet and that he refuses to go to Special Ed. Whittington and the Lady decide that Abby should give Ben reading lessons in the barn. It is a balm for Ben when, having toughed out the daily lesson, Whittington comes to tell, in tantalizing installments, the story handed down to him from his nameless forebearer, Dick Whittington’s cat–the legend of the lad born into poverty in rural England during the Black Death, who runs away to London to seek his fortune. This is an unforgettable tale about how learning to read saves one little boy. It is about the healing, transcendent power of storytelling and how, if you have loved ones surrounding you and good stories to tell, to listen to, and to read, you have just about everything of value in this world.
The History of Sir Richard Whittington
Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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Publisher:
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Category : Chapbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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The American Book Collector
Author: W. B. Thorsen
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Lives of Eminent and Illustrious Englishmen
Author: George Godfrey Cunningham
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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