This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dreamworlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.

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    He was an Armenian from that part of Armenia which was under the Mohammedan rule of the Shah of Persia. In the Diary of a con artist he proposes the civic duties and responsibilities of individuals. He vividly depicts the dark side of the human being but proposes the nurture as opposed to the nature theory. He suggests the society as responsible for creating fertile grounds for individuals' actions. Hence, he proposes the responsibility of the society to its individual in parallel with civic duties of the individuals to the society.

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    Would her own purity blind her to the deception around her? A vivid portrayal of the compassion of God.

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    // A story of love and adventures taking place during the Rákóczi Revolution in Hungary (beginning of 18th century).

    In the essay, Twain laments the dour ways in which men of America's Gilded Age employ man's "most faithfull friend." He concludes by insisting that: "the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."

    The stories collected here show a writer of extraordinary range, in subject matter, narrative device, and tone. With the companion volume, Early Short Stories, they offer readers a complete set of Trollope's hard-to-find shorter fiction.

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    Illustrations from sculptures and vases accompany the text. Companion volume to the author's Stories of the East from Herodotus. Suitable for ages 12 and up.

    Murdoch van Deventer, who wrote under the pseudonym Lawrence L. Lynch, was an American author, who published many detective novels from the 1870 s to the early twentieth-century. Her works include: Shadowed by Three (1883), The Diamond Coterie (1882), Madeline Payne: The Detective s Daughter (1889), Moina: A Detective Story (1891), Out of a Labyrinth (1892), A Dead Man s Step: A Detective Story (1893), The Last Stroke: A Detective Story (1894), Against Odds (1894), No Proof: A Detective Story (1895), Under Fate s Wheel (1900) and Man and Master (1909).