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Languages : en
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The Surprising Adventures, Miraculous Escapes and Wonderful Travels of the Renowned Baron Munchausen, who was Carried on the Back of an Eagle Over France to Gibraltar, Etc
Author: Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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The Surprising Adventures, Great and Imminent Dangers, Miraculous Escapes, and Wonderful Travels of the Renowned Baron Munchhausen
Author: The Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846051764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775414728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a futuristic novel set in London in 1984. Chesterton envisions neither great technological leaps nor totalitarian suppression. Instead, England is ruled by a series of randomly selected Kings, because people have become entirely indifferent. The joker Auberon Quin is crowned and he instates elaborate costumes for every sector of London. All the city's provosts are bored with the idea except for the earnest young Adam Wayne - the Napoleon of Notting Hill.
Life on the Circuit with Lincoln
Author: Henry Clay WhitneyPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof."--Preface.
Claimants to Royalty
Author: John Henry IngramPublisher:
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Category : Impostors and imposture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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The Car of Destiny
Author: Charles Norris WilliamsonPublisher:
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Telling Tales
Author: David BlamiresPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Germany has had a profound influence on English stories for children. The Brothers Grimm, The Swiss Family Robinson and Johanna Spyri's Heidi quickly became classics but, as David Blamires clearly articulates in this volume, many other works have been fundamental in the development of English chilren's stories during the 19th Centuary and beyond. Telling Tales is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Germany on English children's books, covering the period from 1780 to the First World War. Beginning with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, moving through the classics and including many other collections of fairytales and legends (Musaus, Wilhelm Hauff, Bechstein, Brentano) Telling Tales covers a wealth of translated and adapted material in a large variety of forms, and pays detailed attention to the problems of translation and adaptation of texts for children. In addition, Telling Tales considers educational works (Campe and Salzmann), moral and religious tales (Carove, Schmid and Barth), historical tales, adventure stories and picture books (including Wilhelm Busch's Max and Moritz) together with an analysis of what British children learnt through textbooks about Germany as a country and its variegated history, particularly in times of war.
Up the Orinoco and Down the Magdalena
Author: John Augustine ZahmPublisher:
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Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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