The Short Stories, introduced here with a revealing preface by the author, chronicles Hemingway's development as a writer, from his earliest attempts in the chapbook Three Stories and Ten Poems, published in Paris in 1923, to his more mature accomplishments in Winner Take Nothing. Originally published in 1938 along with The Fifth Column, this collection premiered "The Capital of the World" and "Old Man at the Bridge," which derive from Hemingway's experiences in Spain, as well as "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," which figure among the finest of Hemingway's short fictions.

    Almost everyone is familiar with the story of Peter Rabbit, the high-spirited bunny who disobeys his mother and narrowly escapes disaster in Mr. McGregor's garden, and will recognize other familiar characters in this collection--Benjamin Bunny, Mrs. Tiggy-winkle, Mr. Jeremy Fisher, Hunca Munca, Squirrel Nutkin, Tom Kitten, Jemima Puddle-duck, and other favorites.The thirteen tales are arranged chronologically, beginning with "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," originally written as a letter to a child, and ending with "The Roly-Poly Pudding," where Tom Kitten's inquisitive nature is almost his undoing.

    This magnificent novel juxtaposes geographically distant places, brilliant and playful reflections, and a variety of styles, to take its place as perhaps the major achievement of one of the world’s truly great writers.

    Brought together in this volume, these stories represent an unprecedented accomplishment in American literature. In their iconoclasm and needle-sharp irony, their formal and thematic ingenuity and element of surprise, they differ markedly from the fiction admired in Bierce's time. Readers familiar with the classic An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge will want to turn to Bierce's other Civil War stories. Also included here are his horror stories, among them The Death of Halpin Frayser and The Damned Thing, and such tall tales as Oil of Dog and A Cargo of Cat.

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    It was compiled in the eighteenth century by two Greek monks, St Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain of Athos (1749-1809) and St Makarios of Corinth (1731-1805), and was first published at Venice in 1782.

    This classic series of plays, novels, and stories has been adapted, in a friendly format, for students reading at a various levels.Reading Level: 4-8Interest Level: 6-12

    Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with Miss Love Simpson. He is barely three weeks a widower, and she is only half his age and a Yankee to boot. As their marriage inspires a whirlwind of local gossip, fourteen-year-old Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a family scandal, and that’s where his adventures begin.Cold Sassy Tree is the undeniably entertaining and extraordinarily moving account of small-town Southern life in a bygone era. Brimming with characters who are wise and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, Olive Ann Burns’s classic bestseller is a timeless, funny, and resplendent treasure.

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    Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

    Thomas G. West's introduction provides an overview of the principal themes and arguments of the four works. There are extensive explanatory notes to the translations.In their translations, the Wests capture successfully the simplicity and vigor of straightforward Greek diction. They strive for as high a degree of accuracy as possible, subordinating concerns for elegance and smoothness to the goal of producing the most faithful and most reliable English versions of these texts. For this new edition, Thomas West has revised the introduction and updated the annotated bibliography, which includes the best of the secondary literature on Socrates and on the texts included in this book.

    His writings were edited by his disciple Porphyry, who published them many years after his master's death in six sets of nine treatises each (the Enneads).Plotinus regarded Plato as his master, and his own philosophy is a profoundly original development of the Platonism of the first two centuries of the Christian era and the closely related thought of the Neopythagoreans, with some influences from Aristotle and his followers and the Stoics, whose writings he knew well but used critically. He is a unique combination of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His thought dominated later Greek philosophy and influenced both Christians and Moslems, and is still alive today because of its union of rationality and intense religious experience.In his acclaimed edition of Plotinus, Armstrong provides excellent introductions to each treatise. His invaluable notes explain obscure passages and give reference to parallels in Plotinus and others.

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    Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for essays and term papers.

    Petersburg and served in the Russian Army in the First World War. Invalided out, he traveled throughout Russia after the Revolution and saw a spell of service in the Red Army. He came back to St. Petersburg in 1921 and started to publish humorous satirical stories, which achieved considerable popularity. After the Second World War he was attacked by the Stalinist state and expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers. This marked the end of his literary career. This selection of short stories is confined to the 1920s, when Zoshchenko's talent found his best expression. Although written in a slangy familiar style, these stories are not essentially difficult for a student. An Introduction and Notes in English provide background and assistance in translation, and there is a useful Vocabulary.

    An ideal volume for those encountering Woolf for the first time as well as for those already devoted to her work. Edited and with a Preface by Mitchell A. Leaska.

    

    Features The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit, The Story of Miss Moppet, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle Duck, The Roly-Poly Pudding.

    Here is the complete tale of Mowgli the man cub and his loved jungle brothers—nine tales and nine songs, beginning with Mowgli's Brothers and ending with the last of all the Mowgli stories In the Rukh, published in a single volume.

    It is grounded in technical scholarship, to which it constantly referes and is intended to contribute, and I hope that even Homeric specialists will find ideas and interpretations to interest them. I have tried to present clearly what seem to me the most valuable results of modern research and criticism of the Iliad while setting forth my own views. My goal has been to interpret the poem as much as possible on its own mythological, religious, ethical, and artistic terms. The topics and problems I focus on are those that have arisen most often and most insistently when I have thought the poem, in translation and in the original, as I have done every year since 1968. This book is a literary study of the Iliad. I have not discussed historical, archaeologoical, or even linguistic questions except where they are directly relevant to literary interpretation. Throughout I have emphasized what is thematically, ethically, and artistically distinctive in the Iliad in contrast to the conventions of the poetic tradition of which it is an end product.

    Ferguson. No ordinary book of memoirs concludes with the promise, 'I am with you always, even to the end of the world.' But the biography of Jesus is no mere commemoration of the departed; his promise makes the Evangelists' account a living history. "Take the Gospel record in your hands," says Hugh Martin, "and you have the means of causing you to realize Christ's presence." Whether you are burdened, anxious, failing, sorrowful, or hardened, Jesus' promise means that his perfect words come with power to people in every condition and that he is present with his people in every situation.

    The first volume of its kind to bring together generous selections of the works of three of the great Stoic philosophers, Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius.

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    All your favorite piano masterpieces in one convenient collection! This book features solo arrangements of 100 classics by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, Faure, Franck, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Vivaldi, Wagner, and more!List: Adagio Cantabile Adagio in G Minor Addio, Del Passatto Air Air On The G String Allegro Maestoso Alleluia The Aquarium The Four Seasons ('Autumn') Ave Maria Ave Verum (Jesu, Word of God Incarnate) Barcarolle Bist du bei mir (You Are With Me) By The Beautiful Blue Danube Bridal Chorus Can Can Canon In D Dance Of The Reed-Flutes Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy 1812 Overture Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ('Serenade'), First Movement Excerpt Evening Prayer The Evening Star Fingal's Cave Overture The Fledermaus Waltz Funeral March Of A Marionette Fur Elise Gavotte Golliwogg's Cake Walk Gypsy Rondo Habanera Hallelujah Chorus HMS Pinafore, Selected Melodies Humoresque I Know That My Redeemer Liveth In The Hall Of The Mountain King Jerusalem Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring La donna e mobile La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin (The Girl With The Flaxen Hair) Lacrymosa Largo Lullaby (Cradle Song) Mandolin Concerto in C Major Meditation The Merry Widow, Selected Melodies A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Excerpt Minuet In G Major The Moldau Morning O Mio Babbino Caro O Soave Fanciulla Ode To Joy Panis Angelicus (O Lord Most Holy) Piano Concerto in A Minor, First Movement Themes Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major ('Emperor') Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major ('Elvira Madigan'), Second Movement Excerpt Pie Jesu Pilgrims' Chorus Pizzicato Polka Polovetsian Dances Prelude in A Major, Op. 28, No. 7 Prelude in C Major Prelude In C Minor, Op. 28, No. 20 Prelude in D-flat Major, Op. 28, No. 15 ('Raindrop') Prelude in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun Quando Men Vo (Musetta's Waltz) Reverie Romeo And Juliet (Love Theme) Rondeau Serenade (Ständchen) Sheep May Safely Graze Sheherazade, Themes from Part 1 The Sleeping Beauty Waltz Solvejg's Song Sonata in C Major, K. 545, First Movement Song Of India The Swan (Le Cygne) Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Fourth Movement Excerpt Symphony No. 1 in D Major ('Titan') Symphony No. 2 in C Minor ('Resurrection'), Fifth Movement Choral Theme Symphony No. 3 In E-Flat Major ('Eroica') Symphony No. 3 in F Major Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, First Movement Excerpt Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, First Movement Excerpt Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ('Pathetique') Symphony No. 9 in E Minor ('From The New World'), Second Movement Excerpt Symphony No. 94 In G Major ('Surprise'), Second Movement Excerpt Tales From The Vienna Woods Trumpet Tune Turkish March Un Bel Di Vedremo Vienna Life Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, First Movement Excerpt Vissi D'arte Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 69, No. 1 Waltz in A-flat Major, Op. 39, No. 15 Wedding March

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    The light and whimsical comedies, stirring histories, and profound and cathartic tragedies are true classics that are treasured throughout the world. This magnificent collection brings to the reader of all Shakespeare's memorable characters including Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Othello, Richard III, Hamlet, Antony andCleopatra, and King Henry VIII--characters who stand as vivid today as when Shakespeare first set pen to paper more than three centuries ago.These splendid works are accompanied by precise and eloquent black-and-white line illustrations, making this an attractive volume that brings Shakespeare's popular and enduring plays as close as the nearest bookshelf.--back cover

    It includes character studies, analysis of the plot with critical and historical notes, as well as an introduction to the life and work of Emily Bronte.

    A much-abbreviated version of Selden's 1960 classic, this edition focuses primarily on illustrations "from the acclaimed Hollywood animation."

    Moving beyond other studies by its focus on the reader's role in giving meaning to the text, it reveals Thucydides' use of objectivity not so much as a standard for the proper presentation of his subject matter as a method for communicating with his readers and involving them in the complexity and suffering of the Peloponnesian War. W. Robert Connor shows that as Thucydides' themes and ideas are reintroduced and developed, the initial reactions of the reader are challenged, subverted, and eventually made to contribute to a deeper understanding of the war.

    

    Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list.

    

    Big Bird's Mother Goose portrays various Sesame Street characters acting out famous Mother Goose rhymes, such as Bert playing Humpty Dumpty, and Grover playing the mouse who ran up the clock.

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    Chinese with English translation

    He had gone there at the invitation of Scandinavian friends to take part in the founding of the Anthroposophical Society in Norway. Upon their request for a series of public lectures he chose to talk about the fundamental anthroposophical problems connected with the being of man, the formation of his destiny and the relationship of the complete man to world evolution. Dr. Steiner, who was then late in life, responded to the warm interest of his audience with the vigor of a young man. As the scandinavian sky and earth appear to blend into each other, so his inspiring worlds seemed to link his listeners with the eternal truths of man's origins, his present needs and future aims. In the very first of these lectures Dr. Steiner typically relates man's being to the vast spaces of the cosmos in a discussion of the period between falling asleep and awaking and the path pursued by man between death and a new birth. From this beginning he traces human destiny working in the individual to the continuing course of mankind's whole evolution. Finally, the destiny of man is contemplated in the light of the Mystery of Golgotha, and the influence of this event on man's development on earth is revealed. The cycle closes with the thought that for man to reach God anew he must, in full consciousn ess of his connections with the Mystery of Golgotha, bring himself to be able to say with St. Paul, "Not I, but the Christ in me!"

    Timeless tales of the sea, of life in the Yukon, of life in the far reaches of unexplored lands and even of life in prehistoric times, all to be found in this wide-rang- ing compendium of the works of London. They are reproduced, in most cases, from the actual turn-of-the-century magazine pages in which they first appeared (along with the original illustrations). The modern-day reader will experience the same sense of excitement and fascination that his forefathers did in reading these dramatic tales of life and adventure. Jack London is an American original! Russ Kingman, bookman, lecturer, and author of A Pictorial Life Of Jack London is acknowledged to be the world's foremost authority on the life and works of Jack London. He is the proprietor of the Jack London Book- store, and World of Jack London Museum in Glen Ellen, California. His research center maintains one of the most extensive collections of material about Jack London.--jacketBefore Adam 3A Relic of the Pliocene 51Trust 63Thanksgiving on Slav Creek 73Housekeeping in the Klondike 81The Call of the Wild 89Brown Wolf 135The Son of the Wolf 147In the Forests of the North 159The Wisdom of the Trail 173The Law of Life 179The White Silence 185White Fang 193Diable—aDog 295Love of Life 307The Sea Wolf 325Planchette 475The League of the Old Men 505A Hyperborean Brew 517Nam-Bok the Unveracious 529The Death of Ligoun 541Li Wan the Fair 549The Marriage of Lit-lit 561The Lost Poacher 569The Sunlanders 577Where the Trail Forks 591To Build a Fire 599All Gold Canon 611Dutch Courage 625Martin Eden 633

    The series consists of a text without commentary but with a brief apparatus criticus at the foot of each page.

    

    

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    This edition of Spring and Autumn Annals features both English and Chinese side-by-side for easy reference and bilingual support. The paragraphs are linked and organized for easy reading. The bilingual study edition includes the commentary of Zuo for each chapter, and also a Classical Chinese Study Guide. The Annals is the official chronicle of the State of Lu, and covers a 241-year period from 722 to 481 BC. It is the earliest surviving Chinese historical text to be arranged in annals form. Because it was traditionally regarded as having been compiled by Confucius (after a claim to this effect by Mencius), it was included as one of the Five Classics of Chinese literature 五经. The Annals records main events that occurred in Lu during each year, such as the accessions, marriages, deaths, and funerals of rulers, battles fought, sacrificial rituals observed, celestial phenomena considered ritually important, and natural disasters. The entries are tersely written, averaging only 10 characters per entry, and contain no elaboration on events or recording of speeches. During the Warring States period, a number of commentaries to the Annals were created that attempted to elaborate on or find deeper meaning in the brief entries in the Annals. The Commentary of Zuo, the best known of these commentaries, became a classic in its own right, and is the source of more Chinese sayings and idioms than any other classical work. 《春秋》本指先秦時代各國的編年體史書，但后世不传。传之唯魯國《春秋》。此书记载了从鲁隐公元年（前722年）到鲁哀公十四年（前481年）的历史，也是中国现存最早的编年体史书。《春秋》一书，宛若新闻标题，意不在史而在“义”。辜鸿铭之《中國人的精神》，所承于此。 虽然据《宋史》记载王安石对此书的评价为“斷爛朝報”，但《宋史》的作者对其变法和学术多做负面评价，自北宋以来，为王安石辩护者众。通览王安石全部著作，无一语诋《春秋》者，反而多次引用《春秋》传义[4]。 在四庫全書之中為經部（為十三經之一）。 这本有英文和中文在一起。

    Collected in this superb volume are his three major works. The Golden Age and Dream Days - exquisite evocations of childhood far removed from the adult 'Olympian' world - show his remarkably delicate appreciation of the minds of children. Grahame's masterpiece, The Wind in the Willows, written originally to entertain his son, has enchanted successive generations with its Arcadian vision and has become a literary classic. The book includes an introduction by Naomi Lewis.

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    A rousing adventure story peopled with heartbreaking, unforgettable characters and a powerful allegory about the good and evil lying beneath the surfaces of human beauty, ugliness, and superior intellect.