This book includes original translations of ten short stories for children written by Charles Perrault. He was a French author who laid foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, and whose best known tales, offered as if they were pre-existing folk tales, include Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Blue Beard. For example "Little Red Riding Hood" is a famous fairy tale about a young girl and a big bad wolf. The story has been changed considerably in its history and subject to numerous modern adaptations and readings. Perrault\'s most famous stories are still in print today and have been made into operas, ballets, plays, musicals, and movies, both live-action and animation. This edition includes about 50 illustrations. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition. Views: 460
This joyous play, the last comedy of Shakespeare's career, sums up his stagecraft with a display of seemingly effortless skill. Prospero, exiled Duke of Milan, living on an enchanted island, has the opportunity to punish and forgive his enemies when he raises a tempest that drives them ashore—as well as to forestall a rebellion, to arrange the meeting of his daughter, Miranda, with an eminently suitable young prince, and, more important, to relinquish his magic powers in recognition of his advancing age. Richly filled with music and magic, romance and comedy, the play's theme of love and reconciliation offers a splendid feast for the senses and the heart.
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Sophie is an archeologist with a twist. She explores archeological sites under the sea as a professional diver. Her current mission is to uncover the under water treasures of the ancient city of Herakleion. But there is a problem. These valuable treasures are disappearing as quickly off the Research vessel as they are being brought up out of the sea. Can Sophie solve this mystery on her own?Sophie has a great career as an archeologist and a professional diver. Having a job on a research vessel in the Mediterranean is a dream come true. The ancient city of Herakleion has been discovered off of Alexandria, and the treasures that Sophie and her team are uncovering beneath the sea, is unbelievable. To boot, Sophie is becoming quite close to her diving buddy, blue eyed and blond haired, Lance. However, Sophie is more and more disturbed by the fact that valuable pieces of history are disappearing almost as soon as they are found. There's also a new guy on the boat. A misfit and socially inept archeologist named Gerod, who brings out the worst in Sophie, and has raised her suspicions by his behavior. Could he be the thief? Views: 459
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The death of a priest is met with suspicion by his brother Thomas, who knows that his sibling died while researching Christian symbols. But Thomas and curator Deborah Miller aren't alone in retracing the priest's final steps. They're followed by fanatics desperate to hide the secret stumbled upon by Thomas's brother-and willing to kill to keep it buried forever. Views: 457
All of the books in the Phantammeron series will cover the mythical history of the children of Phantaia, whose creation and conflict revolves around the enchanted waters of an ancient pool. The global struggle surrounding the pool and the redemption of the characters tragically affected by it is the main theme in the series.The Phantammeron series tells the tragic tale of a world cursed by the strange waters of an enchanted pool. In Phantammeron Book One, the universe is built by its Creator for the Primordial Ones, his children. But their savage conflicts soon destroy the world he had made. A boy-child among them survives, cast away by his mother into the pits of Oblivion where he is raised by the black spirit that dwells there. Bound to hate and vengeance, he seeks to slay his parents, but finds instead a beautiful maiden imprisoned at the bottom of the sea. From their union a mysterious girl-child is born, thrown ashore onto the beaches of the Twilight Forests of Phantaia, where she is found by a strange creature and carried into the interior. In the heart of that perfect paradise she finds love at last with a mysterious boy that dwells there, just as her treacherous father sends the forces of an unstoppable evil to find her and destroy all of Phantaia. But the temptations of a mysterious pool and its shining tree will lead them both to a greater truth.Mystery, romance, tragedy, and treachery abound in the rich mytho-poetic fantasy world of the Phantammeron. The title of the book translates to "Book of the Forest", and is named for Phantaia, the mysterious Forest of Twilight where the One Tree and the Sacred Pool lie hidden. All of the books in the Phantammeron series will cover the mythical history of this forest and its divine children, whose conflict revolves around the cursed waters of an ancient pool. The global struggle surrounding the pool and the redemption of the characters tragically affected by it is the main theme in this high fantasy novel series. There will be 12 books in the series. Get book one and start the adventure. In later books you will find even more characters, mystery, and drama in the books, deepening the overall history of the Phantammeron world, and building upon its dark and tragic tale of woe. Views: 455
a collection of poems at the heart of which lies the observation that it is the small things in life - set-backs as well as pleasures - which define us as human beings, and that an appreciation of these is what ultimately gives life its meaning.1950’s Cold War tension. Anything can happen during the Atomic Summer. Amanda struggles with the era’s sexist restraints, her fugitive Russian Communist grandparents, and the appearance of a bizarre creature at Secret Pond. How are all these disturbing events related? Everything comes to light under the first ring rainbow. Book 2, "Time Before Color TV" series Views: 455
The underground sanctuary has fallen, ravaged by famine and war.Our hero’s life is now an uncertain one. He could either stay and fight to the death or venture into the unknown. The Journey to the second city would be fraught with danger. Will his destination prove to be worse than his homeland or will his luck change?Join the desperate warrior as he takes on his perilous trek to find out.The underground sanctuary has fallen, ravaged by famine and war.Our hero’s life is now an uncertain one. He could either stay and fight to the death or venture into the unknown. The Journey to the second city would be fraught with danger. He would have to cross the wastelands, a baron plain filled with killer beasts with cunning traps.He has no way of knowing what fate had in store for him but he would rather take a chance than stay behind and end up feeding off the dead.Will his destination prove to be worse than his homeland or will his luck change?Join the desperate warrior as he takes on his perilous trek to find out.A short story that you will want to read again as soon as you have finished it. Views: 453
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A Major Literary Event: a brilliant new translation of Thomas Mann's first great novel, one of the two for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1929.
Buddenbrooks, first published in Germany in 1900, when Mann was only twenty-five, has become a classic of modem literature -- the story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family in northern Germany. With consummate skill, Mann draws a rounded picture of middle-class life: births and christenings; marriages, divorces, and deaths; successes and failures. These commonplace occurrences, intrinsically the same, vary slightly as they recur in each succeeding generation. Yet as the Buddenbrooks family eventually succumbs to the seductions of modernity -- seductions that are at variance with its own traditions -- its downfall becomes certain.
In immensity of scope, richness of detail, and fullness of humanity, Buddenbrooks surpasses all other modem family chronicles; it has, indeed, proved a model for most of them. Judged as the greatest of Mann's novels by some critics, it is ranked as among the greatest by all. Thomas Mann was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929.
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A man with a hump on his back awakens from a coma only to find that the hump is missing ... and so is his wife.Madison Tierney’s a writer, whose husband, Thomas suddenly left her after 10 years; she is destroyed and now recently alone and divorced. She picks herself up slowly trying to restore her lost confidence and ability to love again. She follows her writing passion and ventures to follow a local band - Rolling Isaac’s and write about them, raw and real and how they follow their dreams. Her book is titled ROCK NOTES.Her ex-husband wants to come back into her life, and she is torn with what she had for ten years with him which was safe,comforting and a committed relationship, and yet she is falling hard for the band singer Max Rand (which Madison calls him Rand). He is several years younger than her and every moment with him is intense and unpredictable. Rand has tragically lost love in his life. He has no love left to give. He fills his time with many groupies and late nights. The story travels you to various concert venues, from a sexy piercing party to a New Years rocking eve. There are many interruptions and assumptions for this couple along their journey. While Madison is writing ROCK NOTES, somewhere along the way she begins to write LOVE NOTES, which are personal secret love letters for Rand. Also Rand is always writing music with the hope of creating his first solo album. Both Madison and Rand appear to be able to write their feelings on paper effortlessly but have a hard time conveying them to one another. This story is about being so broken after having your heart ripped apart and then trying to rebuild trust, follow your dreams and hopefully find love. Will there be a new beginning for Madison and Rand? Or will the passion that ignites between them fade away after the concert lights dim? Views: 449
A baby—in his home...with no instruction manual!Called on to look after his baby nephew, Jasper Coleman's flummoxed. He runs a global business but he has no idea about babies! In desperation, he calls on his temporary housemaid, Imogen Hartley, to help. Effervescent, warmhearted, her joie de vivre has irritatingly tempted him ever since she arrived. He even caught her dancing while vacuuming! Turns out Imogen is just what baby George needs. Perhaps she's what Jasper needs, too..."Miss Prim's Greek Island Fling is a sweet and emotional romance. Author Michelle Douglas' story telling brought the characters and the setting alive and drew me into the story as if I was really there. I caught myself smiling and tearing up! This story was full of funny dialogue and witty comebacks among all the emotional intensity."—Goodreads"A fabulous romance that I struggled to put down, The Million Pound Marriage Deal is a compulsively... Views: 448
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.
Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red monster, reveals the volcanic terrain of his fragile, tormented soul in an autobiography he begins at the age of five. As he grows older, Geryon escapes his abusive brother and affectionate but ineffectual mother, finding solace behind the lens of his camera and in the arms of a young man named Herakles, a cavalier drifter who leaves him at the peak of infatuation. When Herakles reappears years later, Geryon confronts again the pain of his desire and embarks on a journey that will unleash his creative imagination to its fullest extent. By turns whimsical and haunting, erudite and accessible, richly layered and deceptively simple, Autobiography of Red is a profoundly moving portrait of an artist coming to terms with the fantastic accident of who he is.
"A profound love story . . . sensuous and funny, poignant, musical and tender."--The New York Times Book Review
"A deeply odd and immensely engaging book. . . . [Carson] exposes with passionate force the mythic underlying the explosive everyday." --The Village Voice
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
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