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Tales of Old Japan

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Tales of Japan

Traditional Japanese folktales come to life alongside contemporary illustration in this luxurious edition.

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Old Japan

Discover the ancient ways of the Samurai and experience the stunning myth of Old Japan

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Tales from Japan

Features a collection of stories from Japan that are retellings of legends and fairy tales. This work contains the Sea Spirit, the Moon God, the Emper

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Travellers' Tales of Old Singapore

In this new expanded Bicentennial edition of Travellers' Tales, more than 80 visitors from the past provide readers of today with authentic portraits

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Tales of Old Prague Houses

The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House; the Cubis...

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Old Wives' Tales

A history of old wives tales

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Tales from Old Ireland

This collection of seven spellbinding Irish folk tales deserves to be read aloud at every hearth. Larger-than-life characters, dramatic plot twists an

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Old Skye Tales

In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agricultu

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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová

Anotace: The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city´s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic of the Faust House;...

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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová

<p></p><p> The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the city’s haracter and made it ever more popular. The magic...

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Tales of Old Prague Houses - Magdalena Wagnerová

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Last Kappa of Old Japan Bilingual English a Japanese Edition

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Ghostly Tales and Sinister Stories of Old Edinburgh

Over a hundred gripping tales - of murder and mystery, ghosts and ghouls, body-snatching and witch-burning - reveal the darker side of genteel Edinbur

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Tales of Old Prague Houses (978-80-7428-302-4)

Kniha - autor Magdalena Wagnerová, 180 stran, anglicky, pevná s přebalem lesklá The air of times long past; the strong walls from bygone centuries; narrow portals; a host of house signs and a wealth of architectural styles: these are the houses of old Prague. Small palaces are full of great secrets, the stories hidden inside their walls having long helped shape the cit...

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Heroes &amp; Heroines Myths &amp; Tales: Epic Tales - Maria Tatar

<p>Our worldwide storytelling heritage is vast and varied and yet contains common threads, themes and motifs running throughout the many legends, whether they hail from the dusty plains of Africa or the cherry-blossom-blanketed hills of Japan. This astonishing anthology, in Flame Tree's covetable series of myths and tales, gathers together the most iconic and entert...

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Illustrated Welsh Folk Tales for Young and Old

A beautifully illustrated collection of folk tales from Wales, told by a professional storyteller

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Japanese Myths a Tales

From the creation myth of Izanagi and Izanami designed to explain the origins of the island of Japan, to the hundreds of kami (gods or spirits) and mo

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Tales of Emma and the Magical Frog

Emma stays at her grandma's every school holiday, staying in an old-fashioned house Emma finds herself escaping to the bottom of the garden.

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Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf

Clever Polly is back in TALES OF POLLY AND THE HUNGRY WOLF, and the rather dim wolf is up to his old tricks again. He's trying to fool Polly so that h

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Egyptian Tales: The Phantom of the Nile

Menes is training as a scribe in the local temple, and to earn extra money to help his poor family, he agrees to assist rich old Maiarch. Menes must w

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Snowdonia Folk Tales

The old kingdom of Gwynedd – the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia), Ynys (Anglesey) and the Llyˆn Peninsula – may be the most mythic landsca

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Tales of the Supernatural Level 3

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Six stories about a world we cannot explain. A film star discovers the dangers of dancing with a stranger. A man comes face-to-face with his father's history. An ...

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Grimms' Fairy Tales

'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."' Collected by the German Grimm brothers, these folk tales have captured the imaginations of children and adults alike since they were first published in 1812.The best-known stories such as The Go...

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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.The Tale A few years have passed since our heroes heroically defeated the arch-witch Mortroga. And their lives, like the lives of most peo...

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The Book of Unwritten Tales 2 (PC)

Every world needs its heroes. However unlikely they may seem. Join Wilbur, Ivo, Nate and Critter in another classic point-and-click adventure in the wicked world of Aventásia. Help them fulfill their destiny. A destiny as yet unwritten.The TaleA few years have passed since our heroes heroically defeated the arch-witch Mortroga. And their lives, like the lives of most peop...

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Tales from the Cafe

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a cafe which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time . . .From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold comes Tales from the Cafe, a story of four new customers each of whom is hoping to take advantage...

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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan

Describes how each class of old Japan lived: their food, clothing, and houses; their beliefs and fears. This work also takes account of certain import

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New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales

This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-k

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The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - Daniel C. Noel

As treasured today as they will undoubtedly be for generations to come, Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales are cornerstones of our collective consciousness as much as of the Western literary canon. From The Ugly Duckling to The Little Mermaid and The Emperor’s New Clothes, this beautifully presented collection shares the eternal magic of these stories with a selection ...

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable m...

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The Storyteller : Tales of Life and Music - Grohl Dave

Anotace: So, I`ve written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (`It`s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!`), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicl...

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100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe

A ghostly journey through Northern Japan in search of yokai monsters and the Otherworld, told equally in manga and prose by Julian Sedgwick and Chie K

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Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures

This book explores the historical relationship between China and Japan, and how this has exacerbated their dispute over the Senkaku/ Diaoyu Islands in

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Irish Fairy Tales - Jackson J. K.

Anotace: Fairy stories, especially from the rich tradition of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of the day. This spritely new collection brings together the fables and stories of banshees, kings, trembling farmers, tricksters and beloved princesses. `Smallhead and ...

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Irish Fairy Tales - J. K. Jackson

<p>Fairy stories, especially from the rich tradition of Ireland where the supernatural grew from the legends of the Celts, are the magic stories of everyday folk seeking solutions to the challenges of the day. This spritely new collection brings together the fables and stories of banshees, kings, trembling farmers, tricksters and beloved princesses. 'Smallhead and t...

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 3: Aladdin

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.The magician took Aladdin to the h...

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Fukufuku: Kitten Tales 1 - Konami Kanata

Anotace: A stray kitten, FukuFuku has been adopted into the home of a widowed grandmother, and the two develop a close relationship--all told from the kitten`s point of view. Related in eighteen scenarios as a flashback to the kittenhood days of the now-adult FukuFuku, these vignettes will charm readers young and old as they watch this fun-loving, trouble-making feline g...

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Fukufuku: Kitten Tales 1 - Kanata Konami

<p>A stray kitten, FukuFuku has been adopted into the home of a widowed grandmother, and the two develop a close relationship--all told from the kitten's point of view. Related in eighteen scenarios as a flashback to the kittenhood days of the now-adult FukuFuku, these vignettes will charm readers young and old as they watch this fun-loving, trouble-making feline gr...

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Tales and Poems - Poe Edgar Allan

Anotace: This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the familiar Poe themes of murder,...

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Tales and Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>This mesmerising, macabre collection contains Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poetry, including 'The Raven', 'Annabel Lee' and 'Lenore', and a selection of his very best stories, along with his finest tales from the last decade of his tragically short life. Many of these stories and poems explore the familiar Poe themes of murder, obsession and love, but this volume...

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Old Babes in the Wood

A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsMargaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world.These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way ...

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Old Babes in the Wood

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life togetherMargaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonic...

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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan

A collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrates Scotland's enormously rich oral tradition. It offers a chosen combination of old f

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 2: The Gingerbread Man

Find out what happens when the old woman makes a gingerbread man and he jumps out of the oven ...

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The Storyteller : Tales of Life and Music, 1. vydání - Dave Grohl

<p>So, I’ve written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (‘It’s a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!’), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chroni...

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Where Magic Grows: Unique Tales of Wonder and Enchantment - Onjali Q. Rauf

<p>From Onjali Q. Raúf, author of The Boy at the Back of the Class, comes a hardback collection of seven unique fables, filled with humour, heart and messages of hope. Beautifully illustrated by Katarzyna Doszla in full colour, with gorgeous details such as a ribbon marker and patterned endpapers, this is a book to be cherished for years to come. Have you heard the...

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Ivy Hill Christmas – A Tales from Ivy Hill Novella

Haunted by an old secret and the shadows of his past, gentleman Richard Brockwell prefers to stay away from Ivy Hill--until his mother threatens to st

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Living in Japan. 40th Anniversary Edition - Alex Kerr

<p>Japanese homes are refuges of tranquility, crafted in a unique domestic aesthetic of Eastern minimalism. Traditional architecture features alongside cutting-edge contemporary dwellings in this collection of homes, with many never-before-seen photographs. Turn to the rising sun and discover the fluid simplicity of these spaces where Zen philosophy breathes.</p&...

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Amrita and the Trees: Level 2/Classic Tales - Arengo Sue

Anotace: Popis edice: This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching. With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make

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Eight-Year-Old Legend Book

A collection of enchanting eastern adventure tales for children who are themselves learning to become clever and brave.

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Tudor Tales: The Actor, the Rebel and the Wrinkled Queen

Old, ailing Elizabeth I has heard of a plan to overthrow her. One of the rallying points for the uprising was to be the Globe Theatre, so she throws S

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Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 1: The Enormous Turnip

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.A man puts a seed in the ground. It

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 2: Amrita and the Trees

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.Table of Classic Tales language le...

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Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book

These magical tales take us through the highlights of the year, through festivals and birthdays. Perfect for six and seven year olds.

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The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Anotace: When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley about the supposed presence near his farmh...

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 4: The Twelve Dancing Princesses

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.Twelve beautiful princesses all sl...

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The Whisperer in Darkness and Other Tales - Howard Phillips Lovecraft

<p>When strange things are reported to be floating in rivers in rural Vermont after a flood, old myths about hill-dwelling monsters who abduct humans resurface in subsequent debates, much to the annoyance of local academic Albert N. Wilmarth. However, when he starts receiving letters from a man named Henry Wentworth Akeley about the supposed presence near his farmho...

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Classic Tales Second Edition: Level 2: Big Baby Finn

This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.Finn is a good giant. And Oonah is...

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