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Told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Disgruntled at not being invited to the princess' christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

Told by C.S. Evans and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Disgruntled at not being invited to the princess' christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

Through simple text and silhouette illustrations, "Sleeping Beauty" relates the classic tale of the consequences when, disgruntled at not being invited to the princess's christening, a wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

A nice edition of the two classics, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, with 130 illustrations by Arthur Rackham from 100 years ago."The Sleeping Beauty" is a classic fairy tale about a princess who is cursed to sleep for a hundred years by an evil fairy, where she would be awakened by a handsome prince. When the good fairy hears this she knew that the princess would be frightened if she found herself alone when she wakes up, so the fairy uses...

Reproduction of the original: The Sleeping Beauty by C.S. Evans

Reproduction of the original: The Sleeping Beauty by C.S. Evans

Celebrating 100 years since their original publication in 1919 and 1920, Pook Press presents a new, deluxe edition of Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty.Two of the most adored fairy tales of all time, retold by master storyteller, C.S. Evans and illustrated with Arthur Rackham's beautiful silhouettes. C.S Evan's extended novella fairy tales provide the perfect canvas for Rackham's art, which is truly enchanting. Rackham's intricate, black and ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The Sleeping BeautyAh, if we only had a little child, and the Queen would look at the King and sigh, and they were both very miser able about it. Then they would put on their golden crownsand sit side by side on their thrones, while lords and ladies and ambassadors from other lands came to pay them homage, and they had to smile with their lips for the sake of polite ness, but there was no joy in their hearts. And that is one of th...

Excerpt from Reynard the FoxYou are not the only one he has harmed, said the Dog. One winter, great King, Reynard stole my last meal, a piece of sausage which I had hidden in a bush.You have little to grumble about, said the Wild Cat. The sausage was mine, your Majesty! I took it from a shelfin the mill while the miller's wife was asleep. The Dog stole it from me.Look what Reynard did to the Hare said the Panther, pointing to a wound in the Ha...

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...

This edition of the famous fairytale was first published in 1919, and includes the pumpkin coach and mice horse, the rat coachman, lizard footmen and the glass slipper. It is a full-length version of the story, and is illustrated with Arthur Rackham's silhouette drawings.

This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory of the spring revival of the earth after a long winter.

The field of techniques for preparing, preconcentrating, quantitating, tracking, and remediating trace pollutants is vast. This volume is intended to be a diverse "sampling" of such methods, each chapter representing one specific field of environmental chemistry analyses.

In den nächsten hundert Jahren wird die Hälfte der rund 6000 Sprachen, die es noch auf der Welt gibt, verschwinden. Die meisten davon werden untergehen, ohne vorher dokumentiert zu werden. Noch enthält jede von ihnen das Denken, Wissen und die Kultur derer, die sie sprechen. Dieses Buch beleuchtet die Konsequenzen für unser gemeinsames intellektuelles und geistiges Erbe. Nicholas Evans fragt nach dem Verlust, den dieser massive Sprachentod fü...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children. Arthur Rackham (1...

This landmark study chronicles the Imperial Navy's instrumental role in Japan's rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire.