European Stories
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An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales
USD $24.95 Read moreThis beautiful volume is simply one of the finest folklore collections and most alive retellings ever committed to paper, all the better for being enhanced by truly beautiful illustrations that capture the magic, warmth and wonder of these tales. (read more)
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Big Anthony and the Magic Ring
USD $7.99 Add to cartBig Anthony is back - and finds his way into more trouble. When Strega Nona shows him a magic ring that can transform her into a beautiful princess (and this is quite a transformation!), Big Anthony decides he simply must (read more)
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3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III
USD $6.00 Add to cartComedy, tragedy, and history — this anthology presents a trio of Shakespeare's most frequently studied and performed works. Each represents one of the playwright's primary genres, and together they run the gamut of the Elizabethan theater experience, from lighthearted romance to (read more)
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Medieval Literature: A Basic Anthology
USD $7.00 Add to cartThese excerpts from works of philosophy and religion, history and drama, fiction, poetry, and other genres introduce the many facets of medieval literature. The anthology opens with chapters from The Confessions of St. Augustine, the first Western biography (read more)
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Moby-Dick
USD $7.00 Add to cartA masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced (read more)
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The Iliad
USD $5.00 Add to cartProbably composed in the eighth century B.C. and based on an actual historical event of the thirteenth century B.C., Homer's Iliad is one of the great epics of the Western world. The poem unfolds (read more)
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A Little Princess
USD $7.99 Add to cartGenerations of children have treasured the story of Sara Crewe, the little girl who imagines shes a princess in order to survive hard times at Miss Minchins London boarding school. Now, this classic novel is available in two beautiful new (read more)
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Splinters of the Sun
USD $18.00 Read moreBetty Staley passionately loves Russian literature and deeply believes that it holds many "splinters of the sun" - many loving pieces of light that illuminate the souls of readers as they speak of a world that is and vastly different (read more)
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The Clown of God
USD $7.99 Add to cartTomie dePaola's retelling of the French legend of the clown whose final gift to God is a selfless outpouring of his talents is gloriously sensitive, graceful and ultimately deeply moving and inspiring. His luminous watercolor illustrations are bright, alive and (read more)
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The Crimson Fairy Book
USD $16.95 Add to cartThe Crimson Fairy Book contains a fascinating collection of tales from many countries: Hungary, Russia, Rumania, Finland, Iceland, Japan, and Sicily are only some of them. Filled with imagination, excitement, and adventure, these tales will delight children with (read more)
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King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table
USD $5.99 Add to cartA ruler said to be the model of goodness over evil and a formidable comrade in the ever-present struggle between right and wrong, the figure of King Arthur of England prevails at the heart of the Arthurian legends. The (read more)
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The Olive Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Olive Fairy Book includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. But all of the stories are told in the common language of the fairy tale, and their heroes — (read more)
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The Red Fairy Book
USD $12.95 Add to cartIt is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Three-headed trolls, horses that carry their masters up mountains of glass, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres — these are the (read more)
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The Shifty Lad and the Tales He Told: Celtic Folk Stories
USD $19.95 Add to cartShifty Lad is sort of a Loki/Coyote figure who comes creating mischief, but also with wondrous stories to tell, so wondrous that they even save his life. In these tales of roguery and cunning, we learn about his (read more)
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The Violet Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartRomania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. Perhaps the best English versions (read more)
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The Yellow Fairy Book
USD $14.95 Add to cartThe Yellow Fairy Book is a wonderful collection of tales from all over the world. There are such familiar old favorites as the "Story of the Emperor's New Clothes," "The Tinder-box," "How to Tell a True Princess," and "The Nightingale." (read more)