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Alice in Wonderland Classic Libraryby Lewis CarrollISBN 0307171116 (0-307-17111-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0156044269 (0-15-604426-9)
Softcover, Harcourt - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0060291508 (0-06-029150-8)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0060294981 (0-06-029498-1)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0030020379 (0-03-002037-9)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 006075768X (0-06-075768-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0192553410 (0-19-255341-0)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 0312018215 (0-312-01821-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: ISBN 014036675X (0-14-036675-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: ISBN 0156044269 (0-15-604426-9)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140433171 (0-14-043317-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0192816209 (0-19-281620-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 015202199X (0-15-202199-X)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 019281186X (0-19-281186-X)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140383514 (0-14-038351-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There: ISBN 0140301690 (0-14-030169-0)
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glassby Lewis Carroll, Jenny ThorneISBN 0361028008 (0-361-02800-8)
Hardcover, Purnell, Alice Kelly
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland : And, Through the Looking Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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American Godsby Neil GaimanISBN 0060558121 (0-06-055812-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Gods'Book summary:American Gods is Neil Gaiman's best and most ambitious novel yet, a scary, strange, and hallucinogenic road-trip story wrapped around a deep examination of the American spirit. Gaiman tackles everything from the onslaught of the information age to the meaning of death, but he doesn't sacrifice the razor-sharp plotting and narrative style he's been delivering since his Sandman days.
Shadow gets out of prison early when his wife is killed in a car crash. At a loss, he takes up with a mysterious character called Wednesday, who is much more than he appears. In fact, Wednesday is an old god, once known as Odin the All-father, who is roaming America rounding up his forgotten fellows in preparation for an epic battle against the upstart deities of the Internet, credit cards, television, and all that is wired. Shadow agrees to help Wednesday, and they whirl through a psycho-spiritual storm that becomes all too real in its manifestations. For instance, Shadow's dead wife Laura keeps showing up, and not just as a ghost--the difficulty of their continuing relationship is by turns grim and darkly funny, just like the rest of the book.
Armed only with some coin tricks and a sense of purpose, Shadow travels through, around, and underneath the visible surface of things, digging up all the powerful myths Americans brought with them in their journeys to this land as well as the ones that were already here. Shadow's road story is the heart of the novel, and it's here that Gaiman offers up the details that make this such a cinematic book--the distinctly American foods and diversions, the bizarre roadside attractions, the decrepit gods reduced to shell games and prostitution. "This is a bad land for Gods," says Shadow.
More than a tourist in America, but not a native, Neil Gaiman offers an outside-in and inside-out perspective on the soul and spirituality of the country--our obsessions with money and power, our jumbled religious heritage and its societal outcomes, and the millennial decisions we face about what's real and what's not. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0060515198 (0-06-051519-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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The Arden Shakespeare Complete Worksby Ann Thompson, David Scott Kastan, Richard ProudfootISBN 1903436397 (1-903436-39-7)
Hardcover, Arden Shakespeare
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works: Leather-Bound'Book summary:The Complete Arden Shakespeare, published for the first time in 1998, is now available in an updated hardback edition. The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all ShakespeareÂ's plays, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. The updated edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998. A general introduction by the three General Editors of the ongoing Arden Shakespeare series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatistÂ's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within ShakespeareÂ's ÂSuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers. · The sound, reliable, critical edition of ShakespeareÂ's work · Updated and revised to include all of the editions currently available in the Arden Third Series · Includes The Two Noble Kinsmen, the Poems and the Sonnets · General introduction by the Arden General Editors · Brief contextual introductions to each play · Glossary with about 400 entries [via]
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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works of ShakespeareISBN 1903436613 (1-903436-61-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
Find This BookBook summary:[via]The Complete Arden Shakespeare contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays and poems, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden Shakespeare series. This edition includes eight newly revised playtexts as published in the Arden Third Series since 1998.A general introduction by the three General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarizes the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime.Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary with nearly 400 entries explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsGeneral Editors' PrefaceIntroductionShakespeare's SonnetsA Lover's ComplaintVenus and AdonisLucreceThe Passionate Pilgrim"The Phoenix and Turtle"All's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItThe Comedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletJulius CaesarKing Henry IV, Part 1King Henry IV, Part 2King Henry VKing Henry VI, Part 1King Henry VI, Part 2King Henry VI, Part 3King Henry VIIIKing JohnKing LearKing Richard IIKing Richard IIILove's Labour's LostMacbethMeasure for MeasureThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorA Midsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado About NothingOthelloPericlesRomeo and JulietThe Taming of the ShrewThe TempestTimon of AthensTitus AndronicusTroilus and CressidaTwelfth NightThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaThe Two Noble KinsmenThe Winter's TaleBibliographyIndex of first lines of sonnetsIndex of first lines of songsGlossaryMore editions of Arden Shakespeare Complete Works of Shakespeare:
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Besessenby A. S. ByattISBN 3518388762 (3-518-38876-2)
Softcover, Intl Book Import Service
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Besessen'Book summary:Frankfurt 1994, ill. kartonierter Originaleinband, 631 Seiten, Kl.-8°, Schnitt leicht gebräunt, ansonsten gutes Exemplar, ungelesen, [via]
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Bridge of Birdsby Barry HughartISBN 0345321383 (0-345-32138-3)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bridge of Birds'Book summary:Bridge of Birds is a lyrical fantasy novel. Set in "an Ancient China that never was", it stands with The Princess Bride and The Last Unicorn as a fairy tale for all ages, by turns incredibly funny and deeply touching. It won the World Fantasy Award in 1985, and Hughart produced two sequels: The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen. All present the adventures of Master Kao Li, a scholar with "a slight flaw in [his] character", and Lu Yu, usually called Number Ten Ox, his sidekick and the story's narrator. Number Ten Ox is strong, trusting, and pure of heart; Master Li once sold an emperor shares in a mustard mine, because "I was trying to win a bet concerning the intelligence of emperors."
Number Ten Ox comes from a village in which the children have been struck by a mysterious illness. He recruits Master Li to find the cure and comes along to provide muscle. They seek a mysterious Great Root of Power, which may be a form of ginseng. Of course, nothing turns out to be as simple as it seems; great wrongs must be avenged and lovers separated must be reunited, from the most humble to the highest. And even in the midst of cosmic glory, Pawnbroker Fang and Ma the Grub are picking the pockets of their own lynch mob, who are frozen in awe and wonder. --Nona Vero [via]
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Charlie y la Fabrica De Chocolate / Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryby Roald DahlISBN 8420447714 (84-204-4771-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Clive Barker's the Thief of Alwaysby Kris Oprisko, Gabriel HernandezISBN 1932382690 (1-932382-69-0)
Softcover, Diamond Book Distributors
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Clive Barker's the Thief of Always'Book summary:Master of horror Clive Barker's Thief of Always is a fable appealing to horror and fantasy fans young and old. Now IDW brings you its own lavishly illustrated adaptation of the thrilling tale. Mr. Hood's Holiday House has stood for a thousand years, welcoming countless children into its embrace. It is a place of miracles, a blissful round of treats and seasons, where every childhood whim may be satisfied... for a price. [via]
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Coralineby Neil Gaiman, Dave McKeanISBN 0060575913 (0-06-057591-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coraline'Book summary:Coraline lives with her preoccupied parents in part of a huge old house--a house so huge that other people live in it, too... round, old former actresses Miss Spink and Miss Forcible and their aging Highland terriers ("We trod the boards, luvvy") and the mustachioed old man under the roof ("'The reason you cannot see the mouse circus,' said the man upstairs, 'is that the mice are not yet ready and rehearsed.'") Coraline contents herself for weeks with exploring the vast garden and grounds. But with a little rain she becomes bored--so bored that she begins to count everything blue (153), the windows (21), and the doors (14). And it is the 14th door that--sometimes blocked with a wall of bricks--opens up for Coraline into an entirely alternate universe. Now, if you're thinking fondly of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, you're on the wrong track. Neil Gaiman's Coraline is far darker, far stranger, playing on our deepest fears. And, like Roald Dahl's work, it is delicious.
What's on the other side of the door? A distorted-mirror world, containing presumably everything Coraline has ever dreamed of... people who pronounce her name correctly (not "Caroline"), delicious meals (not like her father's overblown "recipes"), an unusually pink and green bedroom (not like her dull one), and plenty of horrible (very un-boring) marvels, like a man made out of live rats. The creepiest part, however, is her mirrored parents, her "other mother" and her "other father"--people who look just like her own parents, but with big, shiny, black button eyes, paper-white skin... and a keen desire to keep her on their side of the door. To make creepy creepier, Coraline has been illustrated masterfully in scritchy, terrifying ink drawings by British mixed-media artist and Sandman cover illustrator Dave McKean. This delightful, funny, haunting, scary as heck, fairy-tale novel is about as fine as they come. Highly recommended. (Ages 11 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 7208050031 (7-208-05003-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Dreams Of The Compass Roseby Vera NazarianISBN 193099785X (1-930997-85-X)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Eastby Edith PattouISBN 0152052216 (0-15-205221-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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El Leon, La Bruja Y El Ropera / Lion, the Witch, And the Wardrobeby C. S. Lewis, Margarita Valdes E., Alicia Silva, Andres JulianISBN 9561316692 (956-13-1669-2)
Softcover, Andres Bello Editional
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Leon, La Bruja Y El Ropera / Lion, the Witch, And the Wardrobe'Book summary:This is a high-quality Spanish language edition of the beloved C. S. Lewis classic.
Now considered a classic, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is C.S. Lewis's second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, which has captured the imaginations of children for several generations.
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El Sueno De Una Noche De Veranoby William ShakespeareISBN 8497644697 (84-9764-469-7)
Softcover, Edimat Libros
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Sueno De Una Noche De Verano'Book summary:For lovers of timeless classics, this series of beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of world literature encompasses a variety of literary genres, including drama, fiction, poetry, and essays.[via]Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos con estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Esta selección editorial cuenta con títulos que abarcan todos los géneros literarios, desde teatro, narrativa, poesía y el ensayo.More editions of El Sueno De Una Noche De Verano:
An Exchange of Giftsby Anne McCaffrey, Pat MorrisseyISBN 1880448483 (1-880448-48-3)
Hardcover, The Wildside Press
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 1890517011 (1-890517-01-1)
Hardcover, Core Knowledge Foundation
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
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Kimby Rudyard KiplingISBN 8431625899 (84-316-2589-9)
Softcover, Vicens-Vives Editorial S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kim'Book summary:La gran novela de Kipling y una de las grandes novelas inglesas del XX.
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Kim es sin duda la gran novela del Premio Nobel Rudyard Kipling. Publicada en 1901. Cuenta la historia de un chico, huérfano de un soldado del regimiento irlandés. Su nombre completo es Kimball OHara, pero se le conoce como Kim. La novela tiene lugar en la India, cuando era aún una colonia británica. Kim pasa su infancia en Lahore donde se encuentra a un lama tibetano que se propone encontrar un río místico. Kim le acompañará en su viaje, durante el que se encontrará al regimiento de su padre, que le adoptará y le enviará a la escuela, aunque en sus vacaciones continuará con su búsqueda. Con el tiempo, Kim será seleccionado por el Coronel Creighton como joven promesa para los servicios secretos. Bajo las órdenes del indio Huree Babu se convierte en un distinguido miembro del los servicios secretos, obteniendo unos papeles de espías rusos en el Himalaya. La novela es una maravillosa evocación de la vida en la India bajo el dominio británico y en última instancia el retrato de un alma dividida entre Oriente y Occidente.More editions of Kim:
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, Barry MoserISBN 0151042306 (0-15-104230-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, Marco Livingstone, Peter BlakeISBN 1858943299 (1-85894-329-9)
Hardcover, Merrell
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There'Book summary:Welcome back to the world of Helen Oxenbury's Alice! An exuberant edition of the Lewis Carroll masterpiece, lavishly illustrated by one of the most beloved children's book artists of our time.
Helen Oxenbury's ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND set a new standard for contemporary editions of Lewis Carroll's beloved classic. And now she has illustrated its companion, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING- GLASS, with equal intimacy, warmth, and charm. Here again is Alice, dressed in her bright blue jumper and ready for adventure like any modern child. All it takes is a bit of curiosity about the room reversed in the mirror and suddenly Alice is in the Looking-Glass world with all manner of comical and magical characters -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the lion and the unicorn, and a whole game board of chess pieces come to life.
On page after page, Helen Oxenbury's incomparable line drawings, sepia illustrations, and full-color paintings give today's children their own utterly accessible view into Lewis Carroll's timeless nonsense. [via]More editions of Lewis Carroll, Alice Through the Looking-glass: And What Alice Found There:
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The Library Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, George Cruikshank, John Gilbert, Robert DudleyISBN 1888777745 (1-888777-74-5)
Hardcover, Trident Reference Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Library Shakespeare'Book summary:Known as the greatest playwright of all time Wiiliam Shakespeare has been immortalized in this deluxe 1448 edition of his works. This reproduction, from an original 3 volume 19th Century Manuscript,is beautifully illustrated by Irish artist George Cruikshank, joined by Sir John Gilbert, and R. Dudley.
This Complete Library of Shakspeare is divided into three sections: Tragedies, Comedies, & Histories with Sonnets. [via]
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The Light Princess and Other Fairy Talesby George MacDonaldISBN 1881084167 (1-881084-16-7)
Hardcover, Johannesen
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Lilithby George MacDonaldISBN 1881084272 (1-881084-27-2)
Hardcover, Johannesen
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Lilith: A Variorum Editionby George MacDonald, Rolland Hein, Elizabeth McDonald WeinrichISBN 1881084566 (1-881084-56-6)
Hardcover, Johannesen
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Lostby Gregory MaguireISBN 0060988649 (0-06-098864-9)
Softcover, Regan Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost'Book summary:At the flat in Weatherall Walk there was no milk in the fridge, no ice in the tiny freezer unit.... The better furniture was hung over with drop cloths, the leather-bound books evacuated from their shelves.... Unconnected wiring threaded from walls, and a smell of lazy drains, something rotting, unfurled from the sewer all the way up to this flat. Winnie wrenched open a window. But no sign of John?
Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappeared, and a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his apartment in the nineteenth-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie's great-great-grandfather. Is it the spirit of this ancestor, who, family legend claims, was Charles Dickens's childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostly remains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane and insidious origin?
Winnie begins to investigate, but John's erstwhile girlfriend, Allegra, is aggressively unhelpful, and his downstairs neighbor, the cat-obsessed Mrs. Maddingly, is growing stranger by the day. Gripped by inspiration and desperation alike, Winnie finds herself the unwilling audience for a drama of specters and shades, some from her family's peculiar history and some from her own unvanquished past.
In the spirit of A. S. Byatt's "Possession, with dark overtones echoing from "A Christmas Carol, Lostpresents a rich fictional world that will enrapture Gregory Maguire's eager audience. [via]
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Loves Labours LostISBN 1904271103 (1-904271-10-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
Find This BookBook summary:Another example of Shakespeare's comic fascination with the battle between and misunderstanding of the sexes, Love's Labour's Lost is a difficult play to read, but one which is extremely effective on stage. The Play opens with King Ferdinand of Navarre and his courtiers taking a vow of study and sexual abstinence for a period of three years. However, their vows are soon placed under strain with the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies in waiting. The inevitable happens, and the different couples attempt to surreptitiously communicate, causing much hilarious confusion and embarrassment in the process. Shakespeare deploys every farcical element in the book, including impersonation, wrongly delivered letters, outrageous puns and word play, fights, drunkenness and masquerades, as Ferdinand's entourage soon learn that rather than running from women to books, it is in fact the opposite sex that "are the books, the arts, the academes/That show, contain, and nourish all the world". However, one of the most interesting aspects of the play is that it does not end with everyone marrying and living happily ever after. The women give as good as they get from the men, and in the end turn the tables in extremely interesting ways. One of Shakespeare's most linguistically challenging, but also intelligent comedies. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Magic Toyshopby Angela CarterISBN 0140256407 (0-14-025640-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 1903436605 (1-903436-60-5)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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Mr. Wolf's Pancakesby Jan FearnleyISBN 1888444762 (1-888444-76-2)
Hardcover, Egmont Books, Limited
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Peter Panby J. M. BarrieISBN 1933652071 (1-933652-07-1)
Softcover, Bed Book
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Peter Pan'Book summary:"All children, except one, grow up." Thus begins a great classic of children's literature that we all remember as magical. What we tend to forget, because the tale of Peter Pan and Neverland has been so relentlessly boiled down, hashed up, and coated in saccharine, is that J.M. Barrie's original version is also witty, sophisticated, and delightfully odd. The Darling children, Wendy, John, and Michael, live a very proper middle-class life in Edwardian London, but they also happen to have a Newfoundland for a nurse. The text is full of such throwaway gems as "Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter Pan when she was tidying up her children's minds," and is peppered with deliberately obscure vocabulary including "embonpoint," "quietus," and "pluperfect." Lest we forget, it was written in 1904, a relatively innocent age in which a plot about abducted children must have seemed more safely fanciful. Also, perhaps, it was an age that expected more of its children's books, for Peter Pan has a suppleness, lightness, and intelligence that are "literary" in the best sense. In a typical exchange with the dastardly Captain Hook, Peter Pan describes himself as "youth... joy... a little bird that has broken out of the egg," and the author interjects: "This, of course, was nonsense; but it was proof to the unhappy Hook that Peter did not know in the least who or what he was, which is the very pinnacle of good form." A book for adult readers-aloud to revel in--and it just might teach young listeners to fly. (Ages 5 and older) --Richard Farr [via]
Pictures of the Nightby Adele GerasISBN 0152055436 (0-15-205543-6)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes, Helen StrattonISBN 1881084140 (1-881084-14-0)
Hardcover, Johannesen
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ShakespeareISBN 1897954239 (1-897954-23-9)
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Silkby Guido Waldman, Alessandro BariccoISBN 186046310X (1-86046-310-X)
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Silkby Alessandro BariccoISBN 1860463665 (1-86046-366-5)
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The Story of Little Black Samboby Helen Bannerman, Christopher H. BingISBN 1929766556 (1-929766-55-6)
Hardcover, Handprint Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of Little Black Sambo'Book summary:A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist!
A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many. Caldecott Honor-winning artist Christopher Bing has spent almost fifteen years rediscovering the joy and energy of the original story. He respects that Bannerman was writing in an Indian setting and with Indian animals-after all, there are no tigers in Africa-and faithfully adheres to the original text. However, recognizing that the image of Sambo has been used as a symbol of repression of Africans and African-Americans, Christopher Bing celebrates Sambo as proudly African, a child of beauty and joy, wit and resourcefulness.
In recreating the illusion of an antique, weathered, tiger-clawed storybook filled with exquisitely detailed paintings that draw upon a lush jungle-inspired palette, Christopher Bing s interpretation of Sambo s world seamlessly melds a grand sense of wonder with the minutiae of nature, and a story with history. [via]More editions of The Story of Little Black Sambo:
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The Time Traveler's Wifeby Audrey NiffeneggerISBN 1931561648 (1-931561-64-8)
Hardcover, Macadam Cage Pub
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The Tower Roomby Adele Geras, Michael Stearns, Dave KramerISBN 0152015183 (0-15-201518-3)
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 1904271154 (1-904271-15-4)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare
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The Unabridged William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis WrightISBN 1889372331 (1-889372-33-1)
Hardcover, Sweetwater Pr
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Watching the Rosesby Adele GerasISBN 0152055312 (0-15-205531-2)
Softcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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The Wizard of Ozby L. Frank BaumISBN 1894998138 (1-894998-13-8)
Softcover, Jack Lake Prod Inc
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The Wonderful Wizard of Ozby L. Frank Baum, Michael ForemanISBN 186205343X (1-86205-343-X)
Hardcover, Pavilion Books Ltd
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Alicia a traves del espejo/ Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis CarrollISBN 8420636258 (84-206-3625-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas/a Traves Del Espejo/ LA Caza Del Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 8489693838 (84-89693-83-8)
Hardcover, Optima Editorial
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Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demonsby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 8495618710 (84-95618-71-0)
Softcover, Umbriel Editores
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demons'Book summary:El arma más poderosa creada por el hombre, una organización secreta sedienta de venganza... y apenas unas horas para evitar el desastre.
La eterna pugna entre ciencia y religión se ha convertido en una guerra muy real.
En un laboratorio de máxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un científico con un extraño símbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la más mortífera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompañado de una joven científica y un audaz capitán de la Guardia Suiza, Langdon comienza una carrera contra reloj, en una búsqueda desesperada por los rincones más secretos de El Vaticano. Necesitará todo su conocimiento para descifrar las claves ocultas que los Illuminati han dejado a través de los siglos en manuscritos y templos, y todo su coraje para vencer al despiadado asesino que siempre parece llevarle la delantera.
El autor de El Código Da Vinci nos arrastra a una espiral de acción sin pausa, un impactante thriller donde se suceden las sorpresas y se revelan algunos de los más oscuros enigmas de la historia. Fuerzas que han permanecido ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. [via]More editions of Angeles Y Demonios / Angels and Demons:
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Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons: El Ilustrado / Illustratedby Dan Brown, Eduardo G. MurilloISBN 849561877X (84-95618-77-X)
Hardcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angeles y Demonios / Angels and Demons: El Ilustrado / Illustrated'Book summary:Del mismo autor del Bestseller numero uno de El New York Times El Código Da Vinci FonoLibro les trae el audiolibro en español de la primer episodio de la trilogía del famoso escritor Dan Brown, Ángeles & Demonios en una magnifica producción que no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al final. Robert Lagndom, el renombrado profesor de simbología de la universidad de Harvard es convocado a un laboratorio de alta seguridad en Suiza para analizar un símbolo grabado con fuego en el pecho de un científico asesinado. Langdom descubre lo inimaginable, una venganza sangrienta contra la iglesia por una organización secreta, que existe desde los tiempos de Galileo, Los Illuminati. Robert Langdom, en compañía de una atractiva científica, Victoria Vetra, entran en una carrera contra el tiempo para salvar al Vaticano de la más mortal arma creada por el hombre en manos de esta peligrosa organización. Juntos se embarcan en una casería para descifrar los códigos que los illuminatis han dejado a lo largo de los siglos en pergaminos, templos, catedrales, el vaticano, y el la catacumba más secreta de la tierra, la olvidada guarida de los illuminatis. Dan Brown nos adentra a una trama llena de acción y misterio que revela la verdad de la guerra entre la religión y la ciencia. Fuerzas que han permanecido ocultas durante siglos y que ahora planean destruir la Iglesia... literalmente. El Código Da Vinci esta disponible también audiolibro en versiones completa y resumida en una magnifica producción. [via]
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Codeby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618605 (84-95618-60-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:Nº 1 en USA
¿ Qué misterio se oculta tras la sonrisa de Mona Lisa? Durante siglos, la Iglesia ha conseguido mantener oculta la verdad& hasta ahora.
Antes de morir asesinado, Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda del experto en simbología Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
Un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al lector hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.
" Intriga y amenaza se mezclan en una de las mejores novelas de suspense que he leído jamás. Un sorprendente relato donde los enigmas se suceden a los secretos y éstos a las adivinanzas."
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" Un inteligente thriller lleno de enigmas y códigos que, sin duda, puede recomendarse con rotundo entusiasmo."
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El Codigo Da Vinci / The Da Vinci Code: El Illustrado / Illustradedby Dan Brown, Juanjo EstrellaISBN 8495618818 (84-95618-81-8)
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Uno de los libros con mas tiempo en el tope de la lista de los Best Sellers del New York Times!.... El Código Da Vinci, ahora en un audiolibro narrado en español del bestseller internacional de Dan Brown, producido exclusivamente por FONOLIBRO, el cual no podrá dejar de escuchar hasta que llegue al inesperado final.
Mientras se encontraba en un viaje de negocios en Paris, Robert Langdon, experto en simbologia de la universidad de Harvard, recibe una llamada urgente a media noche. Jacques Saunière, el último Gran Maestre de una sociedad secreta que se remonta a la fundación de los Templarios, ha sido asesinado en el museo del Louvre. Saunière antes de morir transmite a su nieta Sofía una misteriosa clave. Saunière y sus predecesores, entre los que se encontraban hombres como Isaac Newton o Leonardo Da Vinci, han conservado durante siglos un conocimiento que puede cambiar completamente la historia de la humanidad. Ahora Sofía, con la ayuda Robert Langdon, comienza la búsqueda de ese secreto, en una trepidante carrera que les lleva de una clave a otra, descifrando mensajes ocultos en los más famosos cuadros del genial pintor y en las paredes de antiguas catedrales. Un rompecabezas que deberán resolver pronto, ya que no están solos en el juego: una poderosa e influyente organización católica está dispuesta a emplear todos los medios para evitar que el secreto salga a la luz.
FonoLibro, lider en audiolibros en espanol, les trae una afamada historia sobre un apasionante juego de claves escondidas, sorprendentes revelaciones, acertijos ingeniosos, verdades, mentiras, realidades históricas, mitos, símbolos, ritos, misterios y suposiciones en una trama llena de giros inesperados narrada con un ritmo imparable que conduce al oyente hasta el secreto más celosamente guardado del inicio de nuestra era.
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Encantamiento/enchantmentby Orson Scott CardISBN 8477209006 (84-7720-900-6)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Era Del Diamante/The Diamond Ageby Neal Stephenson, Pedro RomeroISBN 8466617248 (84-666-1724-8)
Softcover, Ediciones B
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Gracias a Winn-dixieby Kate DiCamillo, Alberto Jimenez RiojaISBN 8427932545 (84-279-3254-5)
Softcover, Noguer Y Caralt Editores
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El Leon, LA Bruja Y El Armario/the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeby C. S. LewisISBN 8420445649 (84-204-4564-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
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Posesion/ Possessionby A. S. ByattISBN 8433966855 (84-339-6685-5)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Rumpelstilskinby Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm BrothersISBN 842612187X (84-261-2187-X)
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Charlie Et LA Chocolaterieby Roald DahlISBN 2070513335 (2-07-051333-5)
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C'est à une merveilleuse exploration que nous convie Roald Dahl, à l'intérieur d'une usine fabuleuse qui recèle absolument tout ce dont n'importe quel gourmand peut rêver et aussi d'autres choses qu'il n'aurait pas osé imaginer : des machines qui fabriquent des bonbons inusables ou des chewing-gums-repas, des cascades de chocolat, des caramels qui font pousser les cheveux... Ce roman fantastique plein de saveurs est à déguster comme un bonbon. C'est en même temps un conte moral où les méchants sont punis et l'injustice réparée. Voilà une gourmandise dont on aurait tort de se priver ! --Pascale Wester [via]
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Le Chat Botteby Charles Perrault, BenvenutiISBN 2080901044 (2-08-090104-4)
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Eloiseby Kay ThompsonISBN 2070521257 (2-07-052125-7)
Softcover, Gallimard, Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eloise'Book summary:Maurice Sendak calls Eloise a "brazen, loose-limbed little monster." Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen finds her pathetic and lonely. Eloise gave Vanity Fair writer Marie Brenner "permission to rebel." Anyone who has been introduced to the eccentric 6-year-old who spends her days at large in New York's Plaza Hotel pouring water down the mail chute and managing her self-imposed responsibilities is fascinated, fascinated, fascinated. She is the only girl we know who feeds her turtle raisins and braids his ears, wears Kleenex boxes on her head (they make very good hats), and gets away with everything. Even if you have seven copies of the original Eloise, you may want to add The Absolutely Essential Eloise to your collection. In addition to the full splendor of the original 65-page Eloise story, this special edition includes an 18-page scrapbook, written by Marie Brenner, with "photographs of Miss Kay Thompson when she was young and fabulous and rawther like Eloise" and never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia, and sketches and stories from illustrator Hilary Knight. Anyone who adores Eloise and is intrigued by her talented creators should have this book within easy reach. (Click to see a sample spread. Copyright 1955, renewed 1983 by Kay Thompson. Scrapbook text copyright 1999 by Marie Brenner. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.) (Ages 5 to 105) --Karin Snelson [via]
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L Armoire Magiqueby C. S. LewisISBN 2070546438 (2-07-054643-8)
Softcover, Sodis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L Armoire Magique'Book summary:Traces d'usages, nom intérieur mais sinon bel ouvrage.Expédition rapide de votre commande avec protection soignée de vos articles.Professionnel de la vente à distance.Professional on e-business.Fast delivery of your order.Item very well packed(réf 21g) [via]
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Le Magicien D'Ozby L. Frank Baum, Yvette MetralISBN 2277216526 (2-277-21652-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Le Magicien D'Oz'Book summary:« Dorothée poussa un cri d'admiration et regarda autour d'elle, ses yeux s'écarquillaient à chaque merveille qu'elle découvrait... » C'est vers un pays bien étrange et merveilleux que Dorothée et Toto, son petit chien, se trouvent emportés par un cyclone. Mais malgré la beauté des lieux, la fillette n'a qu'une envie : rentrer chez elle au plus tôt. Lorsqu'elle apprend que seul le Grand Magicien de ce fabuleux pays d'Oz peut l'aider, elle part à sa recherche. En chemin, l'Épouvantail, le Bûcheron-en-fer-blanc et le Lion Poltron qu'elle rencontre décident de l'accompagner jusqu'à la mystérieuse Cité d'Émeraude. Et là? Le Grand Oz qu'ils découvrent ensemble se révélera encore plus énigmatique qu'ils ne l'imaginaient... Sur les traces de Dorothée, Lisbeth Zwerger nous emporte dans le monde enchanteur du célèbre « Magicien d'Oz » qu'elle réinvente aujourd'hui pour nous. Et grâce aux lunettes vertes qui accompagnent ce livre, l'illusion devient parfaite. Ses illustrations, à la fois magiques et capricieuses, nous livrent une approche nouvelle et fantastique de ce conte moderne de Lyman Frank Baum, un grand classique de la littérature enfantine américaine. [via]
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The Da Vinci Codeby Dan BrownISBN 2266144340 (2-266-14434-0)
Softcover, Presses Pocket
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Da Vinci Code'Book summary:POCKET Thriller (P) n° 12265 (2005) - Dan BROWN Da Vinci Code [via]
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Erlkonig Und Alpenbraut: Dichtung, Marchen Und Sage in Bildern Der Schack-Galerieby Brigitte Buberl, Schack-Galerie MunchenISBN 3874906213 (3-87490-621-3)
Hardcover, Lipp
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Kinder Brauchen Marchenby Bruno BettelheimISBN 3423150106 (3-423-15010-6)
Hardcover, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kinder Brauchen Marchen'Book summary:Diese Augen! So schwarz wie die schwärzesten Kohle-Stücke und so tief wie der tiefste Waldsee. Überhaupt sieht das kleine Mädchen auf dem Buchumschlag aus wie Schneewittchen. Oder wie ein Kind, das Schneewittchen liebt.
Denn alle Kinder lieben Märchen. Noch mehr: Alle Kinder brauchen Märchen. Dafür plädierte Bruno Bettelheim seit Mitte der siebziger Jahre mit großer Überzeugungskraft. Er mußte es wissen: Bettelheim, 1903 in Wien geboren, emigrierte 1939 in die USA, war dort Professor für Erziehungswissenschaften, Psychologie und Psychiatrie an der Universität Chicago und einer der bekanntesten Kinderpsychologen. Er starb 1990. In deutscher Sprache erschien sein vielfach rezipiertes Buch Kinder brauchen Märchen erstmals 1977.
Bettelheims Erfahrung nach finden Kinder aller Entwicklungsstufen mehr Gefallen an Volksmärchen als an jeder anderen Art von Kindergeschichten. Der Frage, warum das Märchen so bezeichnend für das Innenleben des Kindes ist, ging Bettelheim nach; dabei wurde ihm mehr und mehr klar, daß das Märchen in einem viel tieferen Sinn als jede andere Lektüre dort einsetzt, wo sich das Kind in seiner seelischen und emotionalen Existenz befindet.
Seine Analysen einzelner Märchen und die Einbettung in ein allgemeines Verständnis für das Kind sind mittlerweile zu einem Standardwerk geworden, das nicht nur für Pädagogen, sondern auch für Eltern aufschlußreich ist. Und wie wichtig die richtige Lektüre in der Kinderzeit ist, betonte bereits Friedrich Schiller: "Tiefere Bedeutung liegt in dem Märchen meiner Kinderjahre als in der Wahrheit, die das Leben lehrt." --Lilli Belek [via]
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Der Maulwurf Grabowski: [Bilderbuch.]by Luis MurschetzISBN 3257005423 (3-257-00542-3)
Hardcover, Diogenes-Verlag
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LA Fabbrica Di Cioccolatoby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 8877823445 (88-7782-344-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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Setaby Alessandro BariccoISBN 8817660590 (88-17-66059-0)
Hardcover, Rizzoli
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Boken Om De Fire Dukkene Som Vandret Ut I Verden for a Tjene Sitt Brd Selv ; Barnerimby Kari Bge, Gabriel ScottISBN 8252504906 (82-525-0490-6)
Hardcover, Bokklubben
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