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Your Cabin in the WoodsThe techniques of cabin building described here are derived and updated from the American pioneers, a spirit Conrad Meinecke fully possessed. The cabins he outlines, from the simple framed tent and two-man squatter to the long house and five-room family cabin, are all built...
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Reflecting the Eternal: Dante's Divine Comedy in the Novels of C.S. LewisThe characters, plots, and potent language of C. S. Lewis's novels reveal everywhere the modern writer' admiration for Dante's Divine Comedy. Throughout his career Lewis drew on the structure, themes, and narrative details of Dante's medieval epic to present his characters as spiritual pilgrims...
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To the LighthouseTo the Lighthouse (5 May 1927) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological...
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Random HarvestRandom Harvest is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, the novel was immensely popular, placing second on The New York Times list of best-selling novels for the year.The novel...
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Don QuixotePublished in two volumes, but complete here, a decade apart, Don Quixote is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, and one of the earliest...
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The Serpent Mound, Adams County, Ohio (Facsimile Reprint)A facsimile reprint of E. O. Randall's classic investigation of the mysterious Great Serpent Mound, of southern Ohio.Author: E. O. Randall, Emilius Oviatt RandallPublisher: Coachwhip PublicationsPublished: 02/04/2013Pages: 128Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.30dISBN: 9781616461676
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Unutterable Horror: A History of Supernatural Fiction, Volume 2In this second volume of S. T. Joshi's landmark history of supernatural fiction, the initial focus is on an incredible efflorescence of weird writing at the turn of the twentieth century-a period that many scholars have referred to as the Golden Age of weird...
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The Book of Signs2016 Reprint of 1930 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Rudolf Koch (1876 - 1934) was a German type designer. He was also a master of lettering, calligraphy, typography and illustration. Commonly known for his typefaces created...
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Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet2015 Reprint Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published without date by The Academy Press, the book was written as an effort to uncover a sort of "crypticism" that lay behind the letters of the English...
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Frankenstein or the Modern PrometheusAuthor: Mary ShelleyPublisher: Simon & BrownPublished: 11/09/2011Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58dISBN: 9781613821657Accelerated Reader:Reading Level: 12.4Point Value: 17Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 533 / Frankenstein (Unabridged)This title is not returnable
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Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me: Discover the Magic of Friendship, Family, Courage, and Love in Your LifeAn approachable and inspiring series of short essays that examines the greatest YA series ever with a combination of adult literary criticism and childhood curiosity The books will always be a part of you. Now, revisit old Hogwarts haunts. Reconnect with favorite characters. And...
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A Tale of Two Cities (Unabridged, Column Style)Full length book, typeset in special newspaper (journal) column style. Many of Dickens' works were published originally as serialized excerpts in variousformats, including newspapers. The Tale of Two Cities is one of his most famous works; a historical novel setbetween London and Paris just...
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One Hundred and One Famous Poems"One Hundred and One Poems" by Roy Cook is a remarkable anthology of American poets. Some are no longer familiar, but their poetry sheds light on an earlier America, one that inhabited a less complicated world. One-third of the 'famous poems' belong to such...
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A New Sublime: Ten Timeless Lessons on the ClassicsBoitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. With their emphasis on the mutability and...
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The Smoky GodAuthor: Willis George EmersonPublisher: LitsPublished: 07/27/2010Pages: 80Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781609423179This title is not returnable
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The DeadAuthor: James JoycePublisher: LitsPublished: 03/20/2011Pages: 70Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25dISBN: 9781609422561This title is not returnable
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The Tallgrass Prairie ReaderAuthor: John T. PricePublisher: University of Iowa PressPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 8.97h x 6.14w x 0.91dISBN: 9781609382469About the AuthorJohn Price is the award-winning author of the memoirs Man Killed by Pheasant and Other Kinships (Iowa paperback, 2012), Not Just Any Land: A...
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The Fan Fiction Studies ReaderAn essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work...
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Anthem"My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose." ― Ayn Rand, AnthemAnthem has long been hailed as one of Ayn Rand's classic novels, and a clear predecessor to her...
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The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George Macdonald, Fiction, Classics, Action & AdventureThe hero of the sun-drenched hours, he looks godlike with his golden hair aglow in the sun as he hunts the wild beasts of field and wood. Yet as the light flees at the onset of evening, his self-assurance and bravado fade with the...
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