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Australian Aborigines: The Languages and Customs of Several Tribes of Aborigines in the Western District of Victoria, Australia by James Dawson
Category: Australian Studies | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics
James Dawson first published Australian Aborigines in 1881, after deciding that his careful description of the tribes, languages, customs, and characteristics of the indigenous peoples of the western district of Victoria was too bulky for its originally intended publication in a newspaper. Essentially a ...Show more
Bibi and the Box of Fairy Tales (HB) by Vivian French
Category: Children's Classics | Series: The\Zephyr Collection, Your Child's Library
An enchanting collection of seven original fairy tales to bewitch and enthral by master storyteller, Vivian French, complemented by gorgeous, full-colour, contemporary artwork by debut children's illustrator, Amy Grimes.Bibi doesn't believe in fairies. But when she meets her fairy godmother, the tiniest ...Show more
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt; J. H. Lobban (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama Ser.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, a ...Show more
Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe (HB) by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Edgar Poe was born the son of itinerant actors on January 19th, 1809 in Boston, Massachusets. Abandoned by his father and the later death of his mother, he was taken into the foster care of John Allan, a Virginia tobacco farmer. Now styled as Edgar Allan Poe, he distinguished himself at the University o ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Complete Andersen's Fairy Tales (HB) by Hans Christian Andersen
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
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 and became a short-story writer, novelist and playwright, though he remains best-known for his magical fairy tales which were published between 1835 and 1872. For ...Show more
Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales (HB) by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm K. Grimm; Brothers Grimm
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds. Together wit ...Show more
Complete Novels of James Joyce - Wordsworth Editions by James Joyce
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Includes - A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man, Ulysses, Dubliners, and Finnagans WakeThis collection comprises of Joyce's three novels, plus the short story collection Dubliners. Dubliners, about Joyce's native city, is faithful to his country, seeing it unflinchingly and challenging every preceden ...Show more
Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tal ...Show more
Complete Works of William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The T ...Show more
Coptic Etymological Dictionary by Jaroslav Cerný
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics Ser.
Coptic was the language spoken in Egypt from late ancient times to the seventeenth century, when it was overtaken by Arabic as the national language. Derived from ancient Egyptian, the language of the hieroglyphs, it was written in an adapted form of Greek script. This dictionary lists about 2,000 Copti ...Show more
DISCOVERIES IN AUSTRALIA WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE HITHERTO UNKNOWN COASTS SURVEYED DURING THE VOYAGE OF THE HMS BEAGLE BETWEEN THE YEARS 1837 & 1843 by STOKES JOHN LORT
Category: History | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
John Lort Stokes (1812-85) was a naval officer on board H.M.S. Beagle - the same ship that had carried naturalist Charles Darwin around the world in 1831-6. Stokes served on that expedition and on the following commission, which was a survey of Australia in which the crew was charged with discovering mo ...Show more