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This is a collection of Japanese fairy tales translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki based on a version written in Japanese by Sadanami Sanjin. According to Ozaki, “These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.” Ozaki freely added to and changed the original stories for color and...
| Автор | Yei Theodora Ozaki |
'Jerry Junior', by Jean Webster, is a delightful little romance for light reading. The hero, an ingenious American youth, finds himself stranded at an Italian hotel with no diversion but the view, the head waiter, and the parrot, whose vocabulary is enlarged with some choice American expressions. In a pink villa, not far from the hotel, lives an American girl, who occasionally visits the hotel. The youth falls a victim to her charms and when she wishes to engage a guide, he bribes his...
| Автор | Jean Webster |
'Jerry Junior', by Jean Webster, is a delightful little romance for light reading. The hero, an ingenious American youth, finds himself stranded at an Italian hotel with no diversion but the view, the head waiter, and the parrot, whose vocabulary is enlarged with some choice American expressions. In a pink villa, not far from the hotel, lives an American girl, who occasionally visits the hotel. The youth falls a victim to her charms and when she wishes to engage a guide, he bribes his...
| Автор | Jean Webster |
"Jerusalem" by Selma Lagerlöf (translated by Velma Swanston Howard). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Selma Lagerlöf |
"Jerusalem" by Selma Lagerlöf (translated by Velma Swanston Howard). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are...
| Автор | Selma Lagerlöf |
This book depicts the history of Jews and Moors in Spain during its Golden Era, the period of the prosperity and concordance of religions, a highly important epoch of the world's history which is almost neglected in the English literature. Contents: A DAY IN CORDOVA EUROPE DURING THE DARK AGES EUROPE DURING THE DARK AGES (CONTINUED) OUR RETURN TO CORDOVA THE ARAB-MOORS A SABBATH EVE IN CORDOVA A SABBATH EVE IN CORDOVA (CONTINUED) THE ENTRANCE OF THE JEWS INTO EUROPE THE ENTRANCE...
| Автор | Joseph Krauskopf |
This book depicts the history of Jews and Moors in Spain during its Golden Era, the period of the prosperity and concordance of religions, a highly important epoch of the world's history which is almost neglected in the English literature. Contents: A DAY IN CORDOVA EUROPE DURING THE DARK AGES EUROPE DURING THE DARK AGES (CONTINUED) OUR RETURN TO CORDOVA THE ARAB-MOORS A SABBATH EVE IN CORDOVA A SABBATH EVE IN CORDOVA (CONTINUED) THE ENTRANCE OF THE JEWS INTO EUROPE THE ENTRANCE...
| Автор | Joseph Krauskopf |
The novel revolves around two totally different ladies, both of which happen to be widows. In England, we have Mrs. Wagner, who wants to run the business of her deceased husband and hire more women; she has a philanthropic vein and takes Jack Straw from the Bedlam asylum right into her own house. Then we have Madame Fontaine, whose husband was a scientist and an expert on toxins. She has had monetary problems since the death of Mr. Fontaine, and gets very excited, when her daughter Minna starts...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
The novel revolves around two totally different ladies, both of which happen to be widows. In England, we have Mrs. Wagner, who wants to run the business of her deceased husband and hire more women; she has a philanthropic vein and takes Jack Straw from the Bedlam asylum right into her own house. Then we have Madame Fontaine, whose husband was a scientist and an expert on toxins. She has had monetary problems since the death of Mr. Fontaine, and gets very excited, when her daughter Minna starts...
| Автор | Уилки Коллинз |
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) was a master of English prose, who produced novels, collections of short stories, scripts, screenplays and lyrics for Broadway shows. Wodehouse enjoyed a long, prosperous career, despite the many political and social changes that he witnessed throughout his life. Although he spent most of his time in France and the United States, his works usually reflected his early life experiences in pre-war English upper-class society, and were typically...
| Автор | P. G. Wodehouse |
