The world of Pooh is the Thousand Acre Wood of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga, Christopher Robin, and more. He is a whimsical philosopher, staunch friend, plump, and fond of honey. He calls himself a Bear of Very Little Brain, but is wise and loving. Delicate paintings loved by centuries of children.

    The adventures of Christopher Robin and his friends in which Pooh Bear uses a balloon to get honey, Piglet meets a Heffalump, and Eeyore has a birthday.

    Will Valancy Stirling ever escape her strict family and find true love?Valancy Stirling is 29, unmarried, and has never been in love. Living with her overbearing mother and meddlesome aunt, she finds her only consolation in the "forbidden" books of John Foster and her daydreams of the Blue Castle--a place where all her dreams come true and she can be who she truly wants to be. After getting shocking news from the doctor, she rebels against her family and discovers a surprising new world, full of love and adventures far beyond her most secret dreams.

    I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...' At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's tragic death in 1941.Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and glimpse into their extraordinary lives: from Vita's travels across the globe, to Virginia's parties with the Bloomsbury set; from their shared love of dogs and nature, to their grief at the beginning of the Second World War. Discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.WITH AN ORIGINAL INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.

    In stories written in the gothic tradition, narrators recount their descent into madness and despair. Through their investigations into the unexplained, they tug at the thin threads that separate our world from another of indescribable horror. ‘“ Great God! I never dreamed of THIS!”’ screams occultist Harley Warren in ‘The Statement of Randolph Carter’, as he begs his companion to bury him alive. Another early piece, ‘The Outsider’ – a tragic and emotive evocation of loneliness and desolation – follows a man’s escape from his castle in a desperate search for human contact, but the loathsome truth he discovers destroys his mind.In later tales, such as the iconic ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and ‘The Whisperer in Darkness’, Lovecraft reaches into the cosmos, bridging the divide between horror and science fiction. The extra-terrestrial ‘gods’ and cursed histories that would emerge from these stories now form the cornerstones of Lovecraft’s unique mythology: the Cthulhu Mythos. This fictional universe, built in large part by his friend and most ardent supporter August Derleth, has in the years since been reimagined in myriad forms, and continues to act as a haunted playground for countless illustrators, fans and authors.This edition, based on its sister limited edition, marries Lovecraft’s best-known fiction with two modern masters of the macabre, the acclaimed artist Dan Hillier and author Alan Moore. In his beautifully crafted new preface, Moore finds Lovecraft at once at odds with and integral to the time in which he lived: ‘the improbable embodiment of an estranged world in transition’. Yet, despite his prejudices and parochialisms, he ‘possessed a voice and a perspective both unique in modern literature’.Hillier’s six mesmerising, portal-like illustrations embrace the alien realities that lurk among the gambrel roofs of Lovecraft’s landscapes. By splicing Victorian portraits and lithographs with cosmic and Lovecraftian symbolism, each piece – like the stories themselves – pulls apart the familiar to reveal what lies beneath.The edition itself shimmers with Lovecraft’s ‘unknown colours’, bound in purple and greens akin to both the ocean depths and mysteries from outer space. The cover is embossed with a mystical design by Hillier, while a monstrous eye stares blankly from the slipcase.Content:1. Dagon2. The Statement of Randolph Carter3. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family4. Celephaïs5. Nyarlathotep6. The Picture in the House7. The Outsider8. Herbert West -- Reanimator9. The Hound10. The Rats in the Walls11. The Festival12. He13. Cool Air14. The Call of Cthulhu15. The Colour Out of Space16. The Whisperer in Darkness17. The Shadow Over Innsmouth18. The Haunter of the Dark

    Have you read 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place'?... It is masterly. Indeed, it is one of the best short stories ever written..."

    Traven's politically charged novels about life among the downtrodden, which have sold more than thirty million copies in thirty-six languages. Next to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, it is his most celebrated work

    "A complete chapter from the original Winnie-the-Pooh"--Back cover.

    Thus he is simultaneously without a self--``no one''--and the theater for myriad selves--``one hundred thousand.'' In a crazed search for an identity independent of others' preconceptions, Moscarda careens from one disaster to the next and finds his freedom even as he is declared insane.It is Pirandello's genius that a discussion of the fundamental human inability to communicate, of our essential solitariness, and of the inescapable restriction of our free will elicits such thoroughly sustained and earthy laughter.

    Three dimensional pictures illustrate the consequences of Winnie-the-Pooh's pursuit of honey in a beehive.

    Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend's aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What Bromgard uncovers in the entries is Polyakov's uncontrollable and merciless descent into morphine addiction -- his first injection to ease his back pain, the thrill of the drug as it overtakes him, the looming signs of addiction, and the feverish final entries before his death.

    The adventure and practical lessons he finds along the way replace the further education he craves.

    Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

    Gilbert's verses for Sullivan's music are the most fastidiously turned and inventively rhymed in all lyric comedy. As the Savoy Operas enter their second century on a swell of renewed popularity, Gilbert's reputation as the supreme wordsmith of light opera remains secure. Complete and authentic, these are the librettos on which modern performances and recordings are based. Scattered among the songs are over seventy of the amusing, quirky pictures Gilbert drew to illustrate them. A chronology prepared for this edition sketches the authors' lives and careers. This is a book that no lover of Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedy, or indeed the English theater will want to be without.

    It is a world forever fixed in the minds and hearts of countless children . . . a world where Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, Kanga and the others, share their unforgettable adventures with Christopher Robin.As he wanders through the pages of this book m Pooh remains the whimsical philosopher, the staunch friend, hampered at times by his over-weight but accepting the futility of trying to control his appetite.Although he persists in thinking of himself as “a bear of very little brain,” the reader soon discovers that Pooh’s whimsey leads inevitably to wisdom.For many years A.A. Milne’s inimitable characters delightfully represented in E.H. Shepard’s celebrated illustrations, have frolicked through two classics of childhood: Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner.Now these books are here presented in one never-to-be-forgotten volume, and to make this a truly memorable occasion, Mr. Shepard has added a whole new series of pictures in colour to the familiar black and white drawings. To see Pooh and his friends, the forest and their homes in colour is a pleasure that no one is too young or too old to enjoy.“Silly old bear,” “the best bear in the world” —here comes Pooh walking through the forest, humming to himself.Let us all join him in the song:Sing Ho! for the life of a Bear!Sing Ho! for a Pooh!L

    In revised form it appears to have been first published in The Yale Review, October, 1926. Along with other essays, it first appeared in book form in Woolf's The Common Reader: Second Series in 1932.

    Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against Poland, Babel brings to life an astonishing cast of characters from the exuberant, violent era of early Soviet history: commissars and colonels, Cossacks and peasants, and among them the bespectacled, Jewish writer/intellectual, observing it all and trying to establish his role in the new Russia.Drawn from the acclaimed, award-winning Complete Works of Isaac Babel, this volume includes all of the Red Cavalry cycle; Babel's 1920 diary, from which the material for the fiction was drawn; and his preliminary sketches for the stories—the whole constituting a fascinating picture of a great writer turning life into art.

    Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world.

    P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales.

    In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded a school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of him is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that he went to Cyrene, Egypt & Sicily is possible; that he was wealthy is likely; that he was critical of democracy is obvious. He lived to be 80. Linguistic tests still try to establish the order of his extant philosophical dialogs, revealing Socrates' mind fused with Plato's thought. In Laches, Charmides & Lysis, Socrates & others discuss separate ethical conceptions. Protagoras, Ion & Meno discuss whether righteousness can be taught. In Gorgias, Socrates is estranged from his city's thought, his fate impending. The Apology (not a dialog), Crito, Euthyphro & the Phaedo relate Socrates' trial & death & propound the soul's immortality. The Symposium & Phaedrus, written when Socrates was alive, are about the origin & meaning of love. Cratylus discusses language's nature. Republic's 10 books concern righteousness (& education, gender equality, social structure & abolition of slavery). Of the 6 so-called dialectical dialogs Euthydemus deals with philosophy; metaphysical Parmenides is about general concepts & absolute being; Theaetetus is about epistemology. Of its sequels, Sophist deals with not-being; Politicus with good & bad statesmanship & governments; Philebus with what's good. Timaeus seeks the origin of the visible cosmos out of abstract geometrical elements. Unfinished Critias treats of Atlantis. Unfinished also is Plato's last work, the 12 books of Laws (Socrates absent), a critical discussion of principles of law which he thought Greeks might accept. Loeb Classical Library's edition is in 12 volumes.

    The Charwoman's Shadow is a beautiful tale of a sorcerer's apprentice who discovers his master's nefarious usage of stolen shadows, and vows to save the charwoman from her slavery.

    Fortunately, Pooh finds the bottle. Unfortunately, he can't read the Missage. But Christopher Robin can, and that, along with Pooh's Brilliant Idea, sets the rescue mission on it's wobbly way.--front flap

    Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text and commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of Cicero's most polished orations, composed less than six months after the murder of Julius Caesar in March 44 BC. This period--roughly 63-44 BC--is important because the Roman state was in transition from Republic to Empire. The Second Philippic not only presents Cicero's assessment of his own political career and his place in Roman history from a perspective late in his life, but it also provides a vivid eyewitness account of how Julius Caesar, with the help of Mark Antony, made himself master of Rome.

    Christopher Robin has forgotten what it looks like, so it is a great surprise when they find the Pole. This book is part of a series of "Winnie-the-Pooh" story books.

    This version includes some of his best known work, including Easter, 1916 ('A terrible beauty is born'), and The Second Coming ('What rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem...to be born'). Simultaneously hypermodern and bardic, Yeats' poetry speaks to the 21st century with authenticity and mystical clarity." (Quote from sacred-texts.com)Table of Contents: Publisher's Preface; Preface; The Wind Among The Reeds (1899); The Hosting Of The Sidhe; The Everlasting Voices; The Moods; The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart; The Host Of The Air; The Fisherman; A Cradle Song; Into The Twilight; The Song Of Wandering Aengus; The Song Of The Old Mother; The Heart Of The Woman; The Lover Mourns For The Loss Of Love; He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved And Longs For The End Of The World; He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace; He Reproves The Curlew; He Remembers Forgotten Beauty; A Poet To His Beloved; He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes; To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear; The Cap And Bells; The Valley Of The Black Pig; The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods; He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers; He Tells Of The Perfect Beauty; He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge; He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved; The Blessed; The Secret Rose; Maid Quiet; The Travail Of Passion; The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends; A Lover Speaks To The Hearers Of His Songs In Coming Days; The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers; He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead; He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven; He Thinks Of His Past Greatness When A Part Of The Constellations Of Heaven; The Fiddler Of Dooney; The Old Age Of Queen Maeve (1903); The Old Age Of Queen Maeve; Baile And Aillinn (1903); Baile And Aillinn; In The Seven Woods (1904); In The Seven Woods; The Arrow; The Folly Of Being Comforted; Old Memory; Never Give All The Heart; The Withering Of The Boughs; Adam's Curse; Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland; The Old Men Admiring Themselves In The Water; Under The Moon; The Ragged Wood; O Do Not Love Too Long; The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves; The Happy Townland; The Shadowy Waters (1906); To Lady Gregory; The Harp Of Aengus; The Shadowy Waters; From The Green Helmet And Other Poems (1912); His Dream; A Woman Homer Sung; The Consolation; No Second Troy; Reconciliation; King And No King; Peace; Against Unworthy Praise; The Fascination Of What's Difficult; A Drinking Song; The Coming Of Wisdom With Time; On Hearing That The Students Of Our New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature; To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine; The Mask; Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation; At The Abbey Theatre; These Are The Clouds; At Galway Races; A Friend's Illness; All Things Can Tempt Me; The Young Man's Song; Responsibilities (1914); The Grey Rock; The Two Kings; To A Wealthy Man Who Promised A Second Subscription To The Dublin Municipal Gallery If It Were Proved The People Wanted Pictures; September 1913; To A Friend Whose Work Has Come To Nothing; Paudeen; To A Shade; When Helen Lived; On Those That Hated "the Playboy Of The Western World," 1907; The Three Beggars; The Three Hermits; Beggar To Beggar Cried; Running To Paradise; The Hour Before Dawn; A Song From The Player Queen; The Realists; I. The Witch; ii. The Peacock; The Mountain Tomb; I. To A Child Dancing In The Wind; ii. Two Years Later; A Memory Of Youth; Fallen Majesty; Friends; The Cold Heaven; That The Night Come; An Appointment; I. The Magi; ii. The Dolls; A Coat; Coda; The Wild Swans At Coole (1919); The Wild Swans At Coole; In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death; Men Improve With

    He left a description of Greece in ten books, which is like a topographical guidebook or tour of Attica, the Peloponnese, and central Greece, filled out with historical accounts and events and digressions on facts and wonders of nature. His chief interest was the monuments of art and architecture, especially the most famous of them; the accuracy of his descriptions of these is proved by surviving remains.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Pausanias is in five volumes; the fifth volume contains maps, plans, illustrations, and a general index.

    CONTENTS: Proclamation upon the Death of Woodrow Wilson, February 3, 1924 The Democracy of Sports The United Nation Freedom and its Obligations The Progress of a People Economy in the Interest of All Education: the Cornerstone of Self-government What it Means to Be a Boy Scout Equality of Rights The High Place of Labor Ordered Liberty and World Peace Authority and Religious Liberty A Free Republic Good Sportsmanship Patriotism in Time of Peace Religion and the Republic The Genius of America Discriminating Benevolence The Duties of Citizenship The Press under a Free Government Inaugural Address, March 4, 1925 The Spiritual Unification of America The Reign of Law The Navy as a Instrument of Peace Contribution of the Norsemen to America Washington Toleration and Liberalism Jose De San Martin, Latin-American Liberator Government and Business The Farmer and the Nation Constructive Economy Journalism in the New World The New Responsibilities of Women Training Youth for Character States Rights and National Unity John Ericsson Ways to Peace The Inspiration of the Declaration Index

    The Story of Tomoda and Matsunaga (first published in Japanese in 1926, later in Italian, then in English in 2018 in The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories) is a Tanizaki novella which explores the dichotomy between aspects of Eastern culture (specifically Japanese) and Western culture (specifically European) through the use and eyes of a doppelgänger, a Jekyll and Hyde sort who vacillates in his desires and attitudes toward provincial, traditional Asia and a dissolute, gluttonous Europe.

    

    Written in 1926, it was not available in Russia until 1965, and has hitherto been virtually unknown in English.

    Walpole wrote horror novels that tended more towards the psychological rather than supernatural, with a brooding underlying mysticism. The book begins: It would be flattering to my intelligence were I able to make this Essay a learned and analytical description of any reader's proper mental processes. I have seen such books, books that point out so clearheadedly what must be read at eight, eighteen, twenty-eight, with careful lists of the fifty best volumes, and cold and impassive descriptions of the world's most famous writers. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

    

    The first book of quiet country sketches by David Grayson, Adventures in Contentment, appeared in 1907. He won the Pulitzer Prize for the last two volumes of his authoritative biography of Woodrow Wilson. This volume brings together four of the Grayson works together between one set of covers including Adventures in Contentment, Adventures in Friendship, The Friendly Road and Great Possessions.Adventures in Contentment (c) 1906, 1907 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1907 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Adventures in Friendship (c) 1908, 1909, 1910 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1910 by Doubleday, Page & Co.The Friendly Road (c) 1912, 1913 by The Phillips Publishing Co.(c) 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Great Possessions (c) 1916, 1917 by The Phillips Publishing Co. (c) 1913 by Doubleday, Page & Co.Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty

    It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books, stories and poems. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography. Table of Contents List of Works by Genre and TitleList of Works in Alphabetical Order List of Works in Chronological OrderRobert Louis Stevenson BiographyNovels :: Short story collections :: Short stories :: Travel writing :: Non-Fiction :: Poetry :: Plays NovelsThe Black Arrow David Balfour / Catriona, sequel to KidnappedThe Ebb-TideKidnappedMaster of Ballantrae Prince Otto, a Romance St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeTreasure Island The Wrecker The Wrong Box Weir of Hermiston Short story collectionsIsland Nights' Entertainments (3 stories) Merry Men (6 stories)New Arabian Nights (6 stories) The Dynamiter (14 stories)Short storiesThe Body-SnatcherA Christmas SermonFablesThe Misadventures of John NicholsonThe Story of A LieThe Waif Woman Travel writingAcross the Plains Essays of Travel An Inland Voyage The Silverado Squatters Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Non-FictionEdinburgh Picturesque Notes Essays In The Art of WritingOther EssaysFamiliar Studies of Men and Books Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu A Footnote to History, Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa In the South Seas Lay Morals and Other PapersMemoir of Fleeming Jenkin Memories and Portraits Records of a Family of Engineers Vailima Letters Virginibus Puerisque and Other PapersPoetryBalladsA Child's Garden of VersesMoral EmblemsNew Poems Vailima Prayers Songs of TravelUnderwoods Plays by W. E. Henley and R. L. StevensonAdmiral GuineaBeau AustinDeacon BrodieRobert Macaire

    M. Barrie's essay "The Blot on Peter Pan" was published in 1926. It is about the one blot on Peter: his cockiness. Barrie says that when he made up Peter, he would have liked him to be noble, obedient, polite and good, but then Peter started to brag. Asked why Barrie had altered Peter’s way of being, he said that he had become a cynic and because a boy who isn't cocky is no boy, but a man.