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The Usborne Complete Shakespeare
This collection of stories from Shakespeare's plays, with beautiful illustrations and quotations, is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare. Each story includes short details about the main characters, and famous and memorable quotations from the play. This is a fabulous book that will be referred to again and again, by both children and adults.
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Forgotten Fairy Tales of Kindness and Courage
A wonderful collection full of magic and enchantment, these stories celebrate kindness, courage and the importance of being true to yourself. Forgotten Fairy Tales of Kindness and Courage breathes new life into a collection of once much-loved, now forgotten tales, beautifully retold by Mary Sebag-Montefiore. A disabled prince fights for his kingdom, and learns the importance of understanding others. A princess finds the courage to rescue her friend from goblins. A girl steps into the world of a book, only to find what it means to be herself. - A beautiful hardback package makes for the perfect gift. - With a foreword by Dr Zoe Williams, TV presenter and health educator.
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The Usborne Complete Jane Austen
This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen's novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the characters and quotations from the original text. With links to websites to find out more about Jane Austen's life and times.
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Women Writers of Child Classics
A study of the lives and works of four major children's writers of the nineteenth century: Juliana Ewing, Mrs Molesworth, Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit all authors who projected onto posterity a halcyon image of Victorian childhood that was in some ways in conflict both with reality and with the lives lived by the authors of such classic tales as The Secret Garden,The Cuckoo Clock and The Railway Children. ContentsBiographical Outlines1. Introduction: Threads in the Tapestry2. Juliana Horatia Ewing3. Mary Louisa Molesworth4. Frances Hodgson Burnett5. Edith NesbitNotesSelect BibliographyIndexAUTHOR: Mary Sebag-Montefiore is writer and critic who has written widely on Victorian literature.
€ 36,00