This sequel to "In Search of the Unknown" contains such stories as The Third Eye, The Immortal, The Ladies of the Lake, One Over, Un Peu d'Amour and The Eggs of the Silver Moon.
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This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. T
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He wondered if I'd told her everything, and, faltering, I had to admit that I hadn't. She was wonderful--but human.
#1 Bestseller & OnlineBookClub.org's Book of the Year 2018 There are beings that live a shadow's breadth from our reality... They are the dreams and nightmares of humanity, the ancient seeds of fairy-tale and superstition. These are the Immortals, creatures of magic that should live forever... and they are fading.
The Marchioness of Lossie, as she was now called, for the family was one of the two or three in Scotland in which the title descends to an heiress, had left Lossie House almost immediately upon her father's death, under the guardianship of a certain dowager countess. Lady Bellair had taken her first to Edinburgh, and then to London.
This play by Yeats is closely linked to his love of his Irish homeland and the various myths and legends that circulate there concerning faeries and a kind of faeryland where humans were tempted to enter. Interestingly, this was the first of the plays of Yeats to be performed publicly, and it ran in London for about six weeks. The play concerns itself with the key themes of hopes and dreams and age. Shawn and Maire Bruin are a couple who have recently married. They live in a cottage with Shawn's parents. A faery child enters their life, and is initially welcomed with opened arms by the Bruin household.
Persia is rich in folk lore.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.
"But," said the Cardinal half aloud, with the gentle dawning of a tender smile brightening the fine firm curve of his lips, -- "it is not the end!
The Adventures of a Brownie by Miss Mulock (Dinah Maria Mulock Craik), Alice Carsey (illustrator). Whitman Publishing Co., Chicago, circa 1920's.
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.
Long ago, the Red Fever transformed a world full of light and life into a primeval wasteland littered with relics and decaying cities. In time, the scattered remains of humanity gathered into small, warring tribes.
did not kill him. Alvia, the older woman recognized him and spared his life with a single word in a language Oben did not recognize. The woman, Alvia, served Oben a bowl of stew. They ate late in the night, she explained, to avoid the watchful eyes of the hunters. She told Oben their tale.
We answer: To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by facts; seeks for higher and yet higher laws in those facts; but refuses to regard science as the sole interpreter of nature, or the laws of science as the only region of discovery.
As far as this book is concerned, the public may Take It, or the public may Let It Alone. But the authors feel it their duty to say that no deductions as to their own private habits are to be made from the story here offered. With its composition they have beguiled the moments of the valley of the shadow.
His memories only go as far back to his days slaying starved beasts and mad men in a dark pit, but soon after he’s sold to a criminal syndicate, Mercer gains a chance to avenge the life he lost.
Xenophon (ca. 430-354) was a wealthy Athenian friend of Socrates. He left Athens in 401 to join an expedition including 10,000 Greeks led by the Persian governor Cyrus against the king. After Cyrus' defeat, it fell to Xenophon to lead the Greeks from the gates of Babylon back to the coast thru inhospitable lands
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