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Special Large Print edition, with easy-to-read text, of Oscar Wilde's classic.

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How pleasantly the road winds up the hill- with its broad green borders and hedgerows so thickly timbered!' (Excerpt from text)

The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing, and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship, says Dahlmann. It is to this fact, that any little history there is of the Norse Kings and their old tragedies, crimes and heroisms, is almost all due. - excerpt from the Introduction to "Early Kings of Norway".

ANTHONY TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. This is his biography in his own words.

Helen's Babies - With some account of their ways, innocent, crafty, angelic, impish, witching and impulsive, also a partial record of their actions during ten days of their existence.

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good, " but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. - excerpt from Love, Life & Work

Nina Balatka was a maiden of Prague born of Christian parents and herself a Christian-but she loved a Jew, and this is her story.

IT had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate.

Includes A Christmas Tree What Christmas is as We Grow Older the Poor Relation's Story the Child's Story the Schoolboy's Story and Nobody's Story.

My Dear Children, Some of you have heard already of the old Greeks, and all of you, as you grow up, will hear more and more of them. Those of you who are boys will, perhaps, spend a great deal of time in reading Greek books, and the girls, though they may not learn Greek, will be sure to come across a great many stories taken from Greek history, and to see, I may say every day, things which we should not have had if it had not been for these...

I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.

But now I come to a new scene of my life. It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand. I stood like one thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an apparition." - excerpt from Robinson Crusoe

Cecilia, when she first read her husband's letter, could not clearly grasp its import. Could it be that he truly intended to leave her forever? Surely not . . . they had been married but a few months -- a few months of inexpressible love and confidence, and it was impossible that he should intend they be thus parted. But when she had read it again and again, the words pressed themselves upon her with greater and greater weight: "Pray believ...

JOHN STUART MILL (1806 - 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. These five essays represent Mill's earliest thoughts on economic matters.

Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world.' (From original introduction)

In an ancient though not very populous settlement in a retired corner of one of the New England States arise the walls of a seminary of learning which for the convenience of a name shall be entitled "Harley College.

PLATO (428/427 bc - 348/347 bc), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world.