Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense the son of a shoemaker His early life was wretched but he was adopted by a patron & became a short-story writer novelist & playwright though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 & 1872 For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults & children Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales & among the favourites are The Red Shoes The Mermaid The Real Princess The Emperor's New Clothes The Tinder Box & of course The Ugly Duckling ...

George Mac Donald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay The Fantastic Imagination The subjects are those of traditional fantasy good & wicked fairies children embarking on elaborate quests & journeys into unsettling dreamworlds Within this familiar imaginative landscape his children's stories were profoundly experimental questioning the association of childhood with purity & innocence & the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism & disbelief ...

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was born in Odense the son of a shoemaker His early life was wretched but he was adopted by a patron & became a short-story writer novelist & playwright though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 & 1872 For 150 years his stories have been delighting both adults & children Packed with a light-hearted whimsy combined with a mature wisdom they are as entrancing as ever Here are all of Andersen's 154 tales & among the favourites are The Red Shoes The Mermaid The Real Princess The Emperor's New Clothes The Tinder Box & of course The Ugly Duckling ...

Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) & his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists & folklorists The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales telling of princes & princesses in their castles witches in their towers & forests of giants & dwarfs of fabulous animals & dark deeds Together with the well-known tales of Rapunzel The Goose Girl Sleeping Beauty Hansel & Gretel & Snow White there are the darker tales such as Death's Messengers which deserve to be better known & which will appeal not only to all who are interested in the history of folklore but also to all those who simply love good story-telling ...

A masterpiece of comic brilliance The Complete Far Sidecontains every Far Sidecartoon every syndicated-over 4000 if you must know-presented in (more or less) chronological order by year of publication with more than 1100 that have never before appeared in a book Also included are additional Far Sidecartoons Larson created after his retirement 13 that appeared in the last Far Sidebook Last Chapter & Worse & six cartoons that periodically ran as a special feature in the New York Times Science Times section as The Far Side of Science Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of The Far Sidein quirky & thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters Complaint letters fan letters & queries from puzzled readers appear alongside some of the more provocative or elusive panels Actor author & comedian Steve Martin offers his pithy thoughts in a foreword & Gary Larson's former editor describes what it was like to be "the guy who could explain every Far Sidecartoon" The Complete Far Side (c) 2003 by Far Works Inc All Rights Reserved The Far Side (R) & the Larson (R) signature are registered trademarks of Far Works Inc ...

The complete adventures of the well-loved clerical sleuth collected in one brilliant volume Shabby & lumbering with a face like a Norfolk dumpling Father Brown makes for an improbable super-sleuth But his innocence is the secret of his success refusing the scientific method of detection he adopts instead an approach of simple sympathy interpreting each crime as a work of art & each criminal as a man no worse than himself This complete edition brings together all of the Father Brown stories including two not previously available in Penguin ' The Donnington Affair' in which Chesterton rises to the challenge of solving a murder-mystery half written by someone else (Max Pemberton) & ' The Mask of Midas' which was found in Chesterton's papers after his death It also

Includes:: an introduction & notes by Michael D Hurley GK Chesteron was born in 1874 He attended the Slade School of Art where he appears to have suffered a nervous breakdown before turning his hand to journalism A prolific writer throughout his life his best-known books include The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1922) The Man Who Was Thursday (1908) & the Father Brown stories Chesterton converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922 & died in 1938 Michael D Hurley is a Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge & a Fellow of St Catharine's College He has written widely on English literature from the nineteenth century to the present day with an emphasis on poetry & poetics His book on G K Chesterton was published in 2011

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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies Father Brown one of the most quirkily genial & lovable characters to emerge from English detective fiction first made his appearance in The Innocence of Father Brown in 1911 That first collection of stories established GK Chesterton's kindly cleric in the front rank of eccentric sleuths This complete collection contains all the favourite Father Brown stories showing a quiet wit & compassion that has endeared him to many whilst solving his mysteries by a mixture of imagination & a sympathetic worldliness in a totally believable manner ...

Another fantastic edition in the Knickerbocker Classic series is The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft comprised of the author&s fictional stories featuring the world&s most bizzarre creatures & supernatural thrills Written by HP Lovecraft between the years 1917 & 1935 the stories in this collection feature many horrific & cautionary science fiction themes that influence today&s artists like Stephen King Alan Moore Paul Wilson Guillermo Del Toro & Neil Gaiman For Lovecraft fans worldwide this stunning gift edition has a full cloth binding foil blocking on the spine ribbon marker & is packaged neatly in an elegant slipcase The Complete Fiction of HP Lovecraft contains st&-out pieces like " The Call of Cthulhu" (1928) The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1943) The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1941) At the Mountains of Madness (1936) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936) " The Dreams in the Witch House" (1933) The Shadow Out of Time (1936) & " The Haunter of the Dark" (1936) ...

A guide to fishing that covers everything from strategies & techniques to choosing bait tackle & equipment It gives an insight into the world's best fishing destinations & the once-in-a-lifetime species that you can find there 352 pages Gilbey Henry ...

We shall have no other course to pursue but to fulfilour promise You will die at Eight in the Evening
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