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  • The Land Beyond the Forest

    by Emily Gerard ...
    The Land Beyond the Forest: Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania written by Emily Gerard who was a nineteenth-century author. This book was published in 1888. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where ... Read more

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  • The Land Beyond the Forest

    Facts, Figures, and Fancies from Transylvania

    by Emily Gerard ...
    Series series Chronicles & Essays
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Philip Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton and Frank Bernard Dicksee. Transylvania in the 1880s - the Saxons, the Romanians, the Szeklers and the beliefs they kept - by a Scotswoman married to an Austrian cavalry officer stationed there. Bram Stoker read this book and took much of his vampire lore from it. This edition adds 60 bound plates after ... Read more

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  • Waters of Hercules

    The Mystery of Gaura Dracului

    The Waters of Hercules is a long-forgotten novel with close ties to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The heroine of the story, Gretchen, is a practical-minded German girl, who considers marriage an economic proposition and is determined to marry a man of wealth. When Gretchen’s father is seriously injured in an accident, the family sets off to Transylvania, to the Baths of Hercules, in hopes that the waters ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rural Education in China’s Social Transition

    Series series Education and Society in China
    In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the People's Republic of China experienced dramatic growth and expansion that altered the educational environment of children. Rapid economic development increased prosperity and educational opportunities for children expanded in a wealthier society. Yet, a by-product of rising wealth was rising inequality. While the children of the emerging urban ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Tradition Digitized

    Ancient Poems Flowing in Modern Streams

    Series Book 1 - Palamedes Classic
    50 classic poems reflowing in a modern medium. Originally published in black ink on white paper, 16 traditional poets have now been rendered digitally for e-readers.Poetry is the oldest and most flexible art form, and has migrated from performances to papyrus rolls to printed pages. Far from being unsuited to our digital age, poetry, with its short, striking word fragments, can twist and turn on ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Top 10 Poets, The - The 19th Century - The English

    Five poems each from best English poets born in the 19th century

    Unabridged

    2 hours 56 min

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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    Poetry Of Heaven, The

    Unabridged

    1 hour 23 min

    It is often said that two things are unavoidable; Death and Taxes. Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in Life’s eternal journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of Heaven’s largesse, a reward for Faith and the obligations of Religion. Of course for those not ... Read more

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  • THE BEAUTIFUL: Volume 1

    ★★★★★ All he wants is freedom but lies and power will always keep him trapped ★★★★★In The Beautiful, young barkeep Will Randle dreams of escaping the poverty and limitations of South Astonia. When a wealthy nobleman offers him a spot on the Moralis, a military ship bound for a distant land, Will seizes the chance for freedom.Life aboard the ship brings hard work and danger, but also a taste of ... Read more

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    Tor.com Collection: Season 2

    Unabridged

    38 hours 9 min

    The second season of the Tor.com Collection includes the following Tor.com audiobooks originally published separately in the winter of 2016:The Drowning Eyes by Emily FosterPatchwerk by David TallermanLustlocked by Matt WallaceA Song for No Man's Land by Andy RemicThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleThe Devil You Know by K.J. ParkerThe Absconded Ambassador by Michael R. UnderwoodPieces of ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales

    Series series Classic Sensation
    Washington Irving's collection of stories, Legends of Sleepy Hollow and Other Tales, is an example of early American gothic literature. Its focus on the supernatural and its exploration of psychological themes speaks to the author's interest in probing into the darker corners of human nature. At the same time, though, Irving also employs a variety of techniques ranging from comic wit to dark irony ... Read more

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  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

    Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

    With his beloved Gothic tales, Washington Irving is said to have created the genre of the short story in America. Though Irving crafted many of the most memorable characters in fiction, from Rip Van Winkle to Ichabod Crane, his gifts were not confined to the short story alone. He was also a master of satire, essay, travelogue, and folktale, as evidenced in this classic collection.Henry Wadsworth ... Read more

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