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Engelska, 201823 kr
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Mary Lennox, a sickly and spoiled little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor. Her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach. The Secret Garden is an inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment.
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Engelska, 201823 kr
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Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin''s boarding school for girls in London, to prepare her for a life in high society. Sara enjoys a special treatment and exceptional luxuries, and Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her wealth. But all that changes when Captain Ralph suddenly dies after losing all his fortune, leaving Sara in poverty and in disfavor with Miss Minchin.
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Engelska, 201823 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Secret Garden & A Little Princess" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."The Secret Garden" – Mary Lennox, a sickly and spoiled little girl, is orphaned to dim prospects in a gloomy English manor. Her only friend is a bed-ridden boy named Colin whose prospects may be dimmer than hers. But when Mary finds the key to a Secret Garden, the magical powers of transformation fall within her reach. The Secret Garden is an inspirational tale of transformation and empowerment."A Little Princess" – Captain Ralph Crewe, a wealthy English widower, enrolls his young daughter Sara at Miss Minchin''s boarding school for girls in London, to prepare her for a life in high society. Sara enjoys a special treatment and exceptional luxuries, and Miss Minchin openly fawns over Sara for her wealth. But all that changes when Captain Ralph suddenly dies after losing all his fortune, leaving Sara in poverty and in disfavor with Miss Minchin.
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Engelska, 201823 kr
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My Adventures as a Spy is an autobiographical account of Recounts Baden-Powell which describes his escapades as a spy in British military secret service and sheds some light on the art of spying. Baden-Powell lists different types of spies and offers a rudimentary course in scouting and spying, with a handful of insights.
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Engelska, 201823 kr
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"Culture and Anarchy" is Arnold''s most famous piece of writing on culture which established his High Victorian cultural agenda and remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. Arnold''s often quoted phrase "culture is the best which has been thought and said" comes from the Preface to Culture and Anarchy. The book contains most of the terms–culture, sweetness and light, Barbarian, Philistine, Hebraism, and many others–which are more associated with Arnold''s work influence.
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Engelska, 201823 kr
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"The prime importance of the rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature will now be disputed by none.""Myths of the Norsemen" is a collection of Northern myths and legends as preserved in the Eddas and Sagas of Iceland. These stories presented here are probably the purest versions of the original myths.Contents:The BeginningOdinFriggaThorTyrBragiIdunNiördFreyFreyaUllerForsetiHeimdallHermodVidarValiThe Norns The ValkyrsHelÆgir Balder Loki The Giants The Dwarfs The Elves The Sigurd Saga The Frithiof Saga The Twilight of the Gods Greek and Northern Mythologies—A Comparison
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Engelska, 201923 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The French and Indian War" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Hunters of the Hills: A Story of the French and Indian WarThe Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Campaign The Rulers of the Lakes: A Story of George and ChamplainThe Masters of the Peaks: A Story of the Great North Woods The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border The Sun of Quebec: A Story of a Great Crisis
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Engelska, 201923 kr
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The Texan Star & The Texan Scouts are historical action adventure novels. The story is set in the early stages of the Texas revolution. Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned begin the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the others of Santa Anna''s plan to take his army north. Along the way they will have encounters with the Mexican army, the Native Americans and the Texan cowboys…
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Engelska, 201923 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Civil War Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War''s Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation''s Crisis The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee''s Great StandThe Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War''s Close
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This carefully crafted ebook collection "The World War Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This series includes three novels about the First World War written by Joseph A. Altsheler who witnessed the described events himself:The Guns of EuropeThe Forest of Swords: A Story of Paris and the Marne The Hosts of the Air: The Story of a Quest in the Great WarJoseph Alexander Altsheler was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty-one novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Thirty-two of his novels were part of his seven series: The Civil War Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Gold Series, The Great West Series, The Texan Series, The World War Series, The Young Trailers Series.
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Engelska, 201323 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "A Man Could Stand Up (Volume 3 of the tetralogy Parade''s End)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. A Man Could Stand Up is part three of Parade''s End Ford Madox Ford''s tetrology set in the World War I era (1914 to 1918) in England and in the trenches in France. The hero, Christopher Tietjens, and suffragette campaigner Valentine Wannop are united on Armistice Day. Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier, the Parade''s End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.
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Engelska, 201323 kr
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Parade''s End: The Complete Tetralogy (All 4 related novels: Some Do Not + No More Parades + A Man Could Stand Up + Last Post)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Parade''s End is a tetralogy by Ford Madox. The four novels were originally published under the titles: Some Do Not ... (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up — (1926), and Last Post (or The Last Post in the USA) (1928). It is set mainly in England and on the Western Front in World War I, where Ford served as an officer in the Welsh Regiment, a life vividly depicted in the novels. The novels chronicle the life of Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant government statistician from a wealthy landowning family who is serving in the British Army during World War I. His wife Sylvia is a flippant socialite who seems intent on ruining him. Tietjens may or may not be the father of his wife''s child. Meanwhile, his incipient affair with Valentine Wannop, a high-spirited pacifist and suffragette, has not been consummated, despite what all their friends believe. The two central novels follow Tietjens in the army in France and Belgium, as well as Sylvia and Valentine in their separate paths over the course of the war. Ford Madox Ford ( 1873 – 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. He is now remembered best for his publications The Good Soldier, the Parade''s End tetralogy and The Fifth Queen trilogy.