1,200円 “Many Swans” is based upon a Kathlamet legend, the main theme and many of the episodes of which I have retained, while at the same time augmenting and freely departing from it in order to gain a wider symbolism. Four of the songs in my poem are real Indian songs, one is an adaptation, the Others ...

95円 Life On The Mississippi by Mark Twain Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 ー April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since b...

1,250円 A digital rendition of the original publication of 1788. Published by Thompson in London for use by English country dancers. Containing dances from the annual assemblies of 1781 through 1788. Translated from the original period dance and music notation into that used today by country dance master...

1,200円 The sunshine of a day in early spring, honey pale and honey sweet, was showering over The red brick buildings of Queenslea College and The grounds about Them, throwing through The bare, budding maples and elms, delicate, evasive etchings of gold and brown on The paths, and coaxing into life The d...

4,400円 A family’s flight from Nazi terror to an unexpected refuge in Chile. Escaping Hitler is the personal story of Eva Wyman and her family’s escape from Nazi Germany to Chile in the sociohistorical context of 1930s and 1940s, a time when the Chilean Nazi party had an active presence in the country’s ...

8,124円 Roger Bannister was the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Fifty years on, his status, not just as a champion athlete but also as a true British hero, a gentleman and an amateur from a 'golden era' in sport, retains its unblemished appeal. Until now there has been little criticis...

1,200円 That is quite fifteen years ago, said Cassim, smoothing the frail paper with tender fingers; "now it is the twenty-fourth day of July in the year eighty-nine. Six o'clock! I wonder if any of them will turn up. Jack is an engineer, building railways and bridges in China. Peter, as a respectable ph...

11,772円 "Conceptually well organized, stylistically clear, intellectually thoughtful, and pedagogically useful." - Thomas Head, Speculum "For its humane and learned approach to its enormous canvas, as well as for the cogency with which it penetrates at speed to the essentials of a vanished historical epo...

687円 Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. This belief was not without its grounds. The prepara...

315円 Nós Joam Daniel, Baram de Mentzel, Coronel do novo Regimento de Hussares Cravineiros, e Mosqueteiros em serviço de Sua Magestade a Rainha de Hungria, &c. Fazemos saber a todas, e a cada huma das pessoas, a que este presente Manifesto for mostrado, que havendo Sua Mag. a Rainha de Hungria, e Bohem...

1,200円 The readers of the "Antiquary" will remember the anecdote told with so much effusion by Jonathan Oldbuck. '"Davy Wilson," he said, "commonly called Snuffy Davy, from his inveterate addiction to black rappee, was the very prince of scouts for searching blind alleys, cellars, and stalls, for rare v...

1,200円 I was met at a country station by a springiest buggy drawn by a decrepit looking nag and driven by an ancient man who must have been eighty if a day. "After another dusty journey of perhaps ten minutes we arrived at a village containing about thirty houses; on a hill beyond I saw what was to be m...