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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

A keepsake treasure and a treat for all ages, this humorous work features a limerick for each letter, plus 24 illustrations of people and animals. Facsimile of a valuable 1906 edition.

First and greatest French epic, this 11th-century tale of romance and heroism recounts the adventures of the warrior Roland, nephew of Charlemagne and prince of the Holy Roman Empire. A poetic story of valor, betrayal, and revenge.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

These 55 masterworks by one of the most influential -- and most prolific -- illustrators of children's books during the early 20th century include exquisite images for "The Sleeping Beauty, " "Cinderella, " "The Snow Queen, " "The Real Princess, " and other beguiling tales. An invaluable treasury for lovers of fine art, a delight for fairy-tale enthusiasts.

Excerpt from Edmvnd Dvalacs Fairy-Book: Fairy Tales of the Allied NationsThe old wife sang merrily as she sat in the inglenook stirring the soup, for she had never felt so sad. Many, many years had come and gone, leaving the weight of their winters on her shoulders and the touch of snow on her hair without ever bringing her a little child. This made her and her dear old husband very sad, for there were many children outside, playing in the sno...

Excerpt from Stories From the Arabian NightsRobbed of the sense that it is Scheherazade who is speaking - Scheherazade, loquacious and self possessed, sitting up in bed at the renewed call of dawn to save her neck for the round of another day. Here is a figure of romance worth a dozen of the prolix stories to which it has been made sponsor, and often we may have followed the fortunes of some shoddy hero and heroine chie¿y to determine at what ...

Excerpt from The Nightingale: And Other Stories From Hans AndersenWhen they got home they described it, and the learned one wrote many books about the town, the palace and the garden, but nobody forgot the nightingale, it was always put above everything else. Those among them who were poets wrote the most beautiful poems, all about the nightingale in the woods by the deep blue sea. These books went allover the world, and in course of time some...

Excerpt from Edmund Dulac's Picture-Book: For the French Red CrossTa-khai, Prince of Tartary, dreamt one night that he saw in a place where he had never been before an enchantingly beautiful young maiden who could only be a princess. He fell desperately in love with her, but before he could either move or speak, she had vanished. When he awoke he called for his ink and brushes, and, in the most accomplished willow-leaf style, he drew her image...

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Beautifully designed hardcover edition presents classic stories from The Arabian Nights, enhanced with 23 atmospheric color plates. Stories include "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, " "The Sleeper Awakened, " and more.

Excerpt from Sinbad the Sailor and Other Stories From the Arabian Nights This Sindbad the Sailor has a story to tell - the story of his life - but he never told it to any until, one day, there came to him one Sindbad the Landsman, a man of poor and humble birth. This man pleased him greatly with an apt recitation dealing with the widely different lots dispensed by God to men, and, being pleased, he was struck with the happy conceit that, now ...

Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) was a French book illustrator prominent during the so called "Golden Age of Illustration". He spent a very brief period at the Académie Julien in Paris in 1904 before moving to London. He then began an association with the Leicester Gallery and Hodder & Stoughton, the gallery would commission paintings from Dulac and then sell the rights to Hodder & Stoughton, who would publish the books while the gallery would sell th...