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123) The BFG
Author
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
124) Moby Dick
Author
Language
English
Description
Moby-Dick, by Herman Melville, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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125) A Study in Scarlet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the dimly lit alleys of Victorian London, a dense fog cloaks the city, wrapping its secrets in an enigmatic shroud. The air is thick with anticipation as a mysterious letter arrives at 221B Baker Street, the famed residence of the unparalleled detective, Sherlock Holmes. The sender, a shadowy figure known only as "The Midnight Scribe," beckons Holmes and his ever-loyal companion, Dr. John Watson, into a web of intrigue that will test the limits...
129) The railway children
Author
Language
English
Description
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
130) Aesop's fables
Series
Publisher
Longmeadow Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated collection of moral tales from Aesop.
131) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Pinocchio, a wooden puppet full of tricks and mischief, with a talent for getting into and out of trouble, wants more than anything else to become a real boy.
Series
Everyman's library ; 87
Language
English
Description
"These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fired in the European imagination an appetite for the mysterious and exotic which has never left it. Collected over centuries from India, Persia, and Arabia, and ranging from vivacious erotica, animal fables, and adventure fantasies to pointed...
134) Fairy tales
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A collection of fairy tales from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
136) Japanese fairy tales
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Includes five fairy tales derived from centuries-old popular stories told in Japan, stressing such attitudes as respect, obedience, courage, and integrity.
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