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Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse

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Tom Hood


Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The …

The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

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Mary Webb


Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapt…

The Story of the Mikado

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W. S. Gilbert


The Mikado is the ninth of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan musical collaborations. It opened in 1885, had the second longest run for any work of…

The Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

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A. G. Seklemian


Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history - in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of…

Woman and War

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Olive Schreiner


Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…

Dreams

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Olive Schreiner


Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earli…

Biographies of Working Men

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Grant Allen


Grant Allen was an anthropologist, scientific writer, novelist and poet, though the biographer and writer Frank Harris has said of him that …

Poetry of Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore


The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work "Irish Me…

Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables

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Gertrude Landa


Gertrude Landa or rather, Hannah Gittel (Annie Gertrude) Landa nee Gordon wrote under the pen-name of Aunt Naomi. The stories that she relat…

The Undying One and Other Poems

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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton


“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…

Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals

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Jefferys Taylor


Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling …

The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer

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Walter Crane


Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them "The Happy Prince and Other Stories&…

Elm Tree Hall

In The Broken Vase and Other Stories

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Anonymous


The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth,Compiled by a TeacherFITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847.WM. J. MERR…

29 - Mr. Houghton Wants a Glass of Sherry

In Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope


Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

Nobody's Story from Some Short Christmas Stories

In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2

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Charles Dickens


This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…

01 The Place and the People

In Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

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Sanni Metelerkamp and Sanni Metelerkamp


Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, Geor…

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