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While playing in her aunt’s toy store, a young girl discovers a Marionette with the ability to speak with humans. For the next few weeks, she enjoys stories of romance and adventure the world of toys. Heartfelt and highly original, Adventures in Toyland is an underappreciated classic of Victorian children’s literature by Edith King Hall.

That Little Beggar, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text...

An award-winning classicist turns to Greek tragedies for the wisdom to understand the damage caused by suicide and help those who are contemplating suicide themselves

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A little girl on a visit to her aunt who keeps a shop gets into conversation with a dancing doll who tells her stories about all the other important personages in the shop. Illustrated with 70 illustrations.

While playing in her aunt’s toy store, a young girl discovers a Marionette with the ability to speak with humans. For the next few weeks, she enjoys stories of romance and adventure the world of toys. Heartfelt and highly original, Adventures in Toyland is an underappreciated classic of Victorian children’s literature by Edith King Hall.

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Zeitlose Weisheiten für ungewöhnliche Zeiten: Wie Aristoteles Ideen uns glücklicher machen könnenAristoteles war der erste Philosoph, der Glück als Zustand einer inneren Zufriedenheit beschrieben hat. Was hat dieser außergewöhnliche Denker, der sich mit der Frage nach dem guten, glücklichen und sinnerfüllten Leben beschäftigt hat, uns heute noch zu sagen? Erstaunlich viel, wie die britische Altertumsforscherin Edith Hall in ihrem klugen und un...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the world...

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, rational science, and philosophy. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. Yet this accomplished people never formed a single unified social or political identity. In Introducing the Ancient Greeks, acclaimed classics scholar Edith Hall offers a bold synthesis of the full 2, 000 years of Hellenic history to show how the ancient Greeks were the right people, at the right time, to ta...

A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the earlier 20th century.

A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the earlier 20th century.

This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, a...

From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful livesTwo thousand years ago, Aristotle wrote the most important book on happiness. The first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, he understood its essence better and more clearly than anyone since. Most importantly, Aristotle understood happiness as available to ...

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New Light on Tony Harrison explores the lifetime achievement and influence of one of Britain's greatest living poets, Tony Harrison. It explores his extensive body of poems and his profound contribution to the literary world.

The implications of Aristotle's thinking applied to a self-help context are explored in this consideration of what the ancient world can offer the struggles of the modern, from the leading classicist and author of "Introducing The Ancient Greeks".