If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

In "A Child's Book of Saints," William Canton crafts an evocative narrative that introduces young readers to the lives of saints through a series of engaging and accessible stories. The book is notable for its lyrical prose and vivid illustrations, providing a seamless blend of spirituality and storytelling. Set against the backdrop of a rich Christian tradition, Canton employs an artistic style that is both pedagogical and entertaining, enlightening children about the virtues and heroic d...

The book features a variety of saints from different times and places, including well-known figures like St. Francis of Assisi, St. Augustine, and St. Joan of Arc, as well as lesser-known saints. Each story highlights acts of kindness, faith, and courage, emphasizing virtues such as humility, compassion, and unwavering devotion to God. Canton’s storytelling brings these historical and spiritual figures to life in a way that is accessible and relatable for children.Interwoven with poetic de...

In "A Child's Book of Saints," William Canton crafts a delicate yet profound exploration of the lives and virtues of various saints, tailoring his narrative with an accessible prose style that invites young readers into the rich tapestry of Christian hagiography. This beautifully illustrated volume melds storytelling with moral instruction, as Canton recounts the trials and triumphs of saints such as St. Francis and St. Cecilia, thereby situating these historical figures within the broader...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, novellas and short stories from Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen, O. He...

The Best of English Poetry:Shakespeare's SonnetsThe Works of Lord ByronThe Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Works of Robert BrowningThe Works of John Dryden

This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. 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 biograph...

This collection includes: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Charmides and Other Poems, and Selected Poems. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death."

A mesmerizing collection of Brownings most famous poems is offered here. The beautiful blend of imagery with flowery diction and lyrical beauty makes it a book that offers everlasting pleasure to its readers. This anthology has 22 poems which vividly convey the vivacity and vigor of Brownings poetry. Delightful!

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Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land is an American epic poem by Herman Melville, published in two volumes in 1876. Clarel is the longest poem in American literature, stretching to almost 18,000 lines (longer even than European classics such as the Iliad, Aeneid and Paradise Lost). As well its great length, Clarel is notable for being the major work of Melville's later years; in the three decades between The Confidence Man (1857) and Billy Budd (begun in 1888), Melville devoted h...