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Search Books Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. To search for a book, you can fill in as many or as few of the fields below as you wish. If you are not getting any results, try leaving some of the fields blank. Order Now! BookId: F1-0033 Title: Blacky the Crow Author: Thornton W Burgess Publisher: Dover Children's Classics Price: 7.50 Description: Order Now! BookId: F1-0034 Title: Heidi Author: Johanna Spyri Publisher: Dover Children's Classics Price: 7.50 Description: Order Now! BookId: F1-0035 Title: Favorite Greek Myths easy -to-read Author: Bob Blaisdell Publisher: Dover children's Classics Price: 10.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: F1-012 Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Author: Mark Twain Publisher: Dover Editions Price: 16.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: F1-014 Title: Tales from Shakespeare Author: Charles and Mary Lamb Publisher: T Nelson Price: 15.00 Description: Bringing the plays to life in a form that encourages readers to enjoy and explore, Tales from Shakespeare provides an entertaining and informative introduction to the great works while retaining much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing, and rhythm. Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies.They omitted the more complex historical tales, including all Roman plays, and modified those they chose to retell in a manner sensitive to the needs of young children, but without resorting to actual censoring. However, subplots and sexual references were removed. They wrote the preface together. Marina Warner, in her introduction to the 2007 Penguin Classics edition, claims that Mary did not get her name on the title page till the seventh edition in 1838. Despite its original target audience, "very young" children from the early twenty-first century might find this book a challenging read, and alternatives are available. Nevertheless, the retelling of the Lamb siblings remains uniquely faithful to the original and as such can be useful to children when they read or learn the plays as Shakespeare wrote them. this book is very old ....certainly 100 years old and not in very good condition, , cut corners, tears , ... . It is a hard cover by Nelson, with the usual Nelson markings on the cover , 20 tales including Romeo and Juliet , 285 pages ....some loose ones but complete . Good reading for adults as well . Order Now! BookId: F1-016 Title: Moby Dick Author: Herman Melville Publisher: J M Dent Everyman's library Price: 25.00 Description: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage. A contribution to the literature of the American Renaissance, Moby-Dick was published to mixed reviews, was a commercial failure, and was out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891. Its reputation as a Great American Novel was established only in the 20th century, after the 1919 centennial of its author's birth. William Faulkner said he wished he had written the book himself, and D. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world" and "the greatest book of the sea ever written". Its opening sentence, "Call me Ishmael", is among world literature's most famous. Melville began writing Moby-Dick in February 1850 and finished 18 months later, a year after he had anticipated. Melville drew on his experience as a common sailor from 1841 to 1844, including on whalers, and on wide reading in whaling literature. The white whale is modeled on a notoriously hard-to-catch albino whale Mocha Dick, and the book's ending is based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex in 1820. The detailed and realistic descriptions of whale hunting and of extracting whale oil, as well as life aboard ship among a culturally diverse crew, are mixed with exploration of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of God. In the standard Everyman's library format , the book has a red cloth cover with name of author and title on the spine in gilt letters rather faded. The inside of the book is in perfect condition, no marking, no spoiling , no writing , 504 pages. Order Now! BookId: F1-018 Title: The Call of the Wild Author: Jack London Publisher: MacMillan Price: 18.00 Description: The Call of the Wild is a short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. The central character of the novel is a dog named Buck. The story opens at a ranch in Santa Clara Valley, California, when Buck is stolen from his home and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. He becomes progressively more primitive and wild in the harsh environment, where he is forced to fight to survive and dominate other dogs. By the end, he sheds the veneer of civilization, and relies on primordial instinct and learned experience to emerge as a leader in the wild. London spent almost a year in the Yukon, and his observations form much of the material for the book. The story was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in the summer of 1903 and was published later that year in book form. The book's great popularity and success made a reputation for London. As early as 1923, the story was adapted to film, and it has since seen several more cinematic adaptations. This is a nice little book in very good condition , for a 1933 edition , alas it has been spoiled by some child "art " on the end papers which could be covered . Hard cover no dust jacket, A light green cloth cover with MacMillan logo, on the spine , title of the book in black letters. Inside is very good except for the details above , there are no marking or spoiling within the written pages, a short biography of Jack London as an introduction and a long list of his stories at the end of the book.... 197 pages . Order Now! BookId: F1-400120 Title: The vintage Mad Author: Albert Feldstein Publisher: Warner Books Price: 12.00 Description: Order Now! 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