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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 TravellersÂ’ 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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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 Wives' Tales

A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine

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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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Japan Diet

Raised in Tokyo, author Naomi Moriyama first travelled to the West as a college student, and promptly gained 25 pounds eating a typical Western diet. Returning home for the holidays, she found that the weight melted off as she reverted to the healthy diet of her homeland. The experience inspired her first book "Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat". Healthy and effective, ...

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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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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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Grimm Tales : For Young and Old - Philip Pullman

<p>A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly designed book of classic fairy tales, award-winning author Philip Pullman has chosen his fifty favourite stories from the Brothers Grimm and presents them in a 'clear as water' retelling, in his unique and brilliant voice. T...

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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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Snowdonia Folk Tales

The old kingdom of Gwynedd – the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia), Ynys (Anglesey) and the Llyn Peninsula – may be the most mythic landscape in Britai

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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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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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Boy : Tales of Childhood - Roald Dahl

<p>Boy: Tales of Childhood is the story of Roald Dahl's very own boyhood. Including takes of sweet-shops and chocolate, mean old ladies and a Great Mouse Plot - the inspiration for some of his most marvellous storybooks in the years to come. These tales are full of exciting and strange things - some funny, some frightening, all true. 'An autobiography is a book...

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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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Witches, Wizards, Seers & Healers Myths & Tales: Epic Tales - Purkiss Diane

Anotace: In the West we tend to think of witches in terms of the witch trials, when fear, ignorance and religious fervour brought the poor to heel, and fostered suspicion of those who dared to be different, or knowledgeable, or independent of mind. Witches and wizards are often associated with pre-Christian societies, Celtic in particular, (and therefore popular in tales...

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Grimms´ Fairy Tales - Cruikshank George

Anotace: A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved stories. I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts an...

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Grimms´ Fairy Tales - George Cruikshank

<p>A beautiful clothbound hardback gift edition of one of the world's most beloved stories. I'm Death, and I make sure that everyone is equal. From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning c...

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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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Four Seasons in Japan - Nick Bradley

From the author of The Cat and The City - 'vibrant and accomplished' David Mitchell - a BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick. Flo is sick of Tokyo. Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course.That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo S...

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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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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 - 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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Witches, Wizards, Seers &amp; Healers Myths &amp; Tales: Epic Tales - Diane Purkiss

<p>In the West we tend to think of witches in terms of the witch trials, when fear, ignorance and religious fervour brought the poor to heel, and fostered suspicion of those who dared to be different, or knowledgeable, or independent of mind. Witches and wizards are often associated with pre-Christian societies, Celtic in particular, (and therefore popular in tales ...

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Penguin Readers Level 1: Tales of Adventurous Girls (ELT Graded Reader)

These folk tales tell the stories of four brave girls from four different countries around the world: Zanzibar, Japan, India and China. The girls all have to do dangerous and difficult things, so they must be strong and clever. Join them on their adv

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tales from Perilous Realm - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

<p>This is the definitive collection of Tolkien’s five acclaimed modern classic ‘fairie’ tales in the vein of The Hobbit, fully corrected and reset for this edition and all beautifully illustrated in pencil by the award-winning artist, Alan Lee.</p> <p>The five tales are written with the same skill, quality and charm that made The Hobbit a classic. Large...

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Tales from the Cafe: Before the Coffee Gets Cold (1529050863)

Kniha - autor Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 208 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná 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 ...

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