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A real treasure chest of old-fashioned favorite tales; complete and unabridged except for those marked *. The Heroes, Charles Kingsley; Horatius, Lord Macaulay; The History Of The Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple, The Jumblies, The Pobble Who Has No Toes and The Two Old Bachelors (all illustrated), Edward Lear; The Rose And The Ring (illustrated), W.M. Thackery; The Travels of Baron Munchausen* and Greedy Richard, Jane Taylor; The Watchfulness Of Papa, Jane and Anne Taylor; Matilda, Who Told Lies and Franklin Hyde, Who Caroused In The Dirt and Was Corrected By His Uncle (illustrated), Hilaire Belloc; John Gilpin, William Cowper; The Jackdaw Of Rhiems, R.H. Barham; Orpheus and Eurydice, Gilbert Abbot A'Beckett; The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning; The Fairies, William Allingham; Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti; The Snow Queen, Hans Andersen; The Brave Little Tailor, Grimm; The Golden Branch, Countess D'Aulnoy; Granny's Wonderful Chair, Frances Browne; A Mid-Summer Night's Dream (slightly adapted), William Shakespeare; Aesop's Fables (Selections); An Elegy On The Glory Of Her Sex, Madam Mary Blaize, Oliver Goldsmith; Old Saws; Wise Sayings; The Story Of the Three Calendars, Sons Of Kings And Of The Five Ladies Of Baghdad, (adapted) from The Arabian Nights; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll; Chink: The Development Of A Pup, Ernest Thompson Seton; Black Beauty, Anna Sewell, The Pavilion On The Links, R.L. Stevenson. CAUTION! These tales would probably be regarded as unsuitable for children today so adults please read first! -
The true and truly unforgettable story of the Gilbreth clan as told by two of its members. In this endearing, amusing memoir, siblings Frank Jr. and Ernestine capture the hilarity and heart of growing up in an oversized family. Mother and Dad are world-renowned efficiency experts, helping factories fine-tune their assembly lines for maximum output at minimum cost. At home, the Gilbreths themselves have twelve kids and Dad can prove demonstrably - well, almost! - that efficiency principles can apply to family life as well as the workplace. Made into a film (1950) with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy as Dad and Mum Gilbreth and remade in 2003. (See the original, it's funnier!) -
Can one think of Torquay without the image of Basil Fawlty cropping up? This charming guide book covers not only the Torquay of 1920 but also delves into history, folklore and local customs. With beautiful colour plate illustrations by Frederick J. Widgery. Reprinted in 2016. -
Here’s Luck: Lennie Lower
$25.00Lower's iconic novel which took its place in Australian culture, never to be dislodged. Rather like its main character, Jack Gudgeon. Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression is Gudgeon - 48, a male chauvinist, an in-debt cynic, layabout and barroom philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack - and his equally unreliable adolescent son Stanley - fending for themselves, pandemonium ensues. Full of sardonic Aussie wit and mad capers, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city's pubs, clubs, race courses, and their own increasingly battered home. Along the way, they fall in with a wondrous assortment of dubious characters who turn up to enliven the kind of party that Mr. Gudgeon invariably intends to be a "quiet, respectable turnout," but which, somehow, never is. Illustrated by the equally classic cartoonist 'Wep'. -
This edition, 1866 (!) is a volume that contains 'views of the characters of the world's greatest men...and to present these views in the best words of the best authors.' One can only imagine how differently some of the greats herein may be viewed today, over a century later; would Lorenzo de Medici, for instance, be remembered as a patron of the arts or as a member of a family of notorious poisoners? In this compendium: Kings and Conquerors: Alexander the Great, Grote; Julius Caesar, de Quincey; Mahomet, Gibbon; Charlemagne, Hallam; Alfred, Hume; William the Conqueror, Lyttleton; Wallace and Robert Bruce, Tytler; Peter the Great and Charles XII, Voltaire; Charles V, Robertson; Henry VIII, Froude; Oliver Cromwell, Carlyle; Lord Clive, Macauley; Washington and Napoleon Buonaparte, Brougham; Nelson, Alison and Lamartine; Sir John Moore, Napier; Wellington, Hugh Miller. Statesmen and Orators: Cicero, Professor Spaulding; Lorenzo de Medici, Hallam; Machiavelli, Sismondi; Cardinal Wolsey, Sir Thomas More and Sir Walter Raleigh, Tytler; Thomas Cromwell, Froude; Hampden, William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Warren Hastings and William Pitt, Macauley; Viscount Falkland, Clarendon; Burke and Charles Fox, Alison; Talleyrand, Brougham; Mirabeau and Robespierre, George Gilfillan; Palmerston, Blackwood. Philosophers And Men Of Science: Socrates, Grote; Plato, Brucker; Aristotle, Blucher; Copernicus and Kepler, Olmstead; Lord Bacon and Byron, Macauley; Galileo, Sir David Brewster; Descartes and Locke, Hallam; Sir Isaac Newtown, Voltaire; Leibnitz and Berkeley, Dugald Stewart; Benjamin Franklin and James Watt, Jeffrey; La Place, Playfair. Poets and Dramatists: Homer, Pope; Virgil and Petrarch, Professor Spaulding; Dante, Ariosto, Tasso, Lope de Vega and Alfieri, Sismondi; Chaucer, Spenser and Thomas Moore, Hazlitt; Shakespeare, Dryden-Blair; Ben Jonson, Dryden; Calderon, Augustus W. Schlegel; Cornielle, Moliére and Racine, Hallam; Milton, Congreve and Thomson, Johnson; Pope, Wordsworth and Shelley, de Quincey; Cowper, Jeffrey; Chatterton, Thomas Campbell; Burns, Carlyle; Coleridge, Foster. Historians, Novelists and Essayists: Boccaccio and Cervantes, Sismondi; Rabelais and Voltaire, Hazlitt; Montaigne and Pascal, Hallam; Swift, Jeffery; Addison, Johnson; Samuel Johnson, Sir J. Mackintosh; David Hume, Professor Nichol; Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, John Paul Miller and Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle; Goldsmith, Johnstone; Gibbon, Prescott; DeFoe, Hugh Miller; Macaulay, George Gilfillan; Thackery, Hannay. -
The first edition of this book came out in 1928, and as a result of 'much correspondence' and further research, the author released this updated edition in 1944. Contents in this volume: The Devil's Hoofmarks: A series of strange footmarks in the snow appeared in Devonshire in 1855; The Vault At Barbados - also known as the moving coffins of Barbados; The Ships Seen On The Ice: Ships from a polar expedition believed lost in 1845 are spotted years later; The Berbalangs of Cagyan Sulu: Tales of zombies in the Philippines in 1896; Orffyreus' Wheel: Did Orffyreus invent a perpetual motion machine in 1717? Crosse's Acari: A new species of insects allegedly created by the reanimation of dead matter; The Auroras And Other Doubtful Islands: Islands that had been recognised and charted for centuries - yet they don't exist...; Mersenne's Numbers: Marin Mersenne, a French Minim friar, gave his name to Mersenne primes in the 17th century - prime numbers that are one less than a power of two; The Wizard of Mauritius: In the late 1700s Bottineau could predict, with accuracy, which ships would soon be arriving; The Planet Vulcan: Is there another planet between Mercury and the Sun? Nostradamus: The French scholar and mystic predicted a great many things that came true yet sceptics will point at those which haven't come true - to which the the believers retort, 'Yet...' Having written his quatrains in a mix of Latin, Greek, French with a touch of English tossed in. It being entirely possible that the quatrains were torn in half by Nostradamus so that the first two lines may have little to do with the last two, the world has not yet heard the last of him. While at least one of these 'Oddities' has now been solved - the moving coffins of Barbados - the others remain unexplained to this day. With photographs and sketches. -
Stories From History, Book II. Published in 1936 - but history doesn't change that much. This is a lovely little volume tracing the history of Rome from Romulus and Remus to the Roman invasion of Britain, the invasions of the English, the Vikings, the Goths and the Huns up until the time of Edward the Confessor, all told in small manageable 'bites'. With black and white rotogravure illustrations. -
A stirring story of adventure in the wilds of North America. Ellis was a prolific author and it is believed he wrote over 200 novels in the adventure genre, as well as any number of short stories and articles for Boys Own type publications. -
Does anyone have tales from their elders of sitting around the radio, waiting for their favourite serials to come on the air? When A Girl Marries...and Blue Hills. At Oolera, an isolated township in Central Australia, Sister Heather Jamieson of the Australian Inland Mission answers a radio call for help for an injured stockman on Copper Downs Station. There, she is soon doing battle with the owner, Ric Carson, who accepts hardships for himself yet invites no woman to share them. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, her brother Donald has been influenced by her accounts of Australian life and desiring to widen his horizons, is planning to emigrate. His fiancée, Ellie, is afraid to leave the security of home and family. Meredith's story follows the fortunes of them all, with emphasis on Ellie's development which brings her not only to Australia but deep into the heart of its sun-scorched interior.
