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A complete edition of a Danish classic literary masterpiece. Books I to IV: I. Boyhood; II. Apprenticeship; III. The Great Struggle; IV. Daybreak.A boat filled with emigrants from Sweden arrives at the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who have moved to Denmark to find work after the death of Pelle's mother. They find employment at a large farm, but find themselves treated as the lowest form of life. It is only as Pelle starts to speak Danish that he begins to gain in confidence, but is still discriminated against as a foreigner. But neither boy nor father is willing to give up their dream of finding a better life than that which they left in Sweden.

One of many great works by E. Phillips Oppenheim, "prince of storytellers" from the late 19th and early 20th Century England.

This classic monograph on pathological lying, accusation, and swindling from 1915 contains a review of the literature to date, a series of twenty-seven case studies, and conclusions. The Healys were the first to concentrate almost exclusively on juvenile cases, and explore and analyse their causes and antecedents, using a mixture of qualitative and quantitative methods. Although outmoded in terminology and social attitudes, this work offers a fascinating insight into the realm of pathological lying and approaches to forensic psychology in the early twentieth century. This volume has been carefully hand-edited and re-indexed to be clear and complete.

Over 150 Ballads from George Borrow are contained within this book. It is compiled from 38 limited edition booklets of ballads that were produced at the beginning of the 20th Century. George Borrow was a lover of travel and was fluent in several languages including Romany. He was particularly taken with the poetry of the Northern Races and many of his ballads are translated from the Danish.These pamphlets contained his later poetic works and they considered to be much superior to his earlier book ¿Romantic Ballads¿ which was crude in terms of the rhythm and rhyme.The Pamphlets contained in this volume are:The Talisman From The Russian Of Alexander Pushkin With Other Pieces; Alf The Freebooter Little Danneved And Swayne Trost And Other Ballads; Brown William The Power Of The Harp And Other Ballads; The Brother Avenged And Other Ballads; Ermeline A Ballad; Grimmer And Kamper The End Of Sivard Snarenswayne And Other Ballads; The Expedition To Birting¿s Land And Other Ballads; King Diderik And The Fight Between The Lion And Dragon And Other Ballads; King Hacon¿s Death And Bran And The Black Dog; Little Engel A Ballad With A Series Of Epigrams From The Persian; Marsk Stig A Ballad; Marsk Stig¿s Daughters And Other Songs And Ballads; Niels Ebbesen And Germand Gladenswayne; The Nightingale The Valkyrie And Raven And Other Ballads; Proud Signild And Other Ballads; Ulf Van Yern And Other Ballads; Axel Thordson And Fair Valborg A Ballad; The Return Of The Dead And Other Ballads; Mollie Charane And Other Ballads; The King¿s Wake And Other Ballads; Hafbur And Signe A Ballad; Queen Berngerd The Bard And The Dreams And Other Ballads; Child Maidelvold And Other Ballads; Ellen Of Villenskov And Other Ballads; Finnish Arts Or Sir Thor And Damsel Thure A Ballad; Signelil A Tale From The Cornish And Other Ballads; The Dalby Bear And Other Ballads; The Giant Of Bern And Orm Ungerswayne A Ballad; The Mermaid¿s Prophecy And Other Songs Relating To Queen Dagmar; The Verner Raven The Count Of Vendel¿s Daughter And Other Ballads; The Song Of Deirdra King Byrge And His Brothers And Other Ballads; The Songs Of Ranild; The Tale Of Brynild And King Valdemar And His Sister Two Ballads; Tord Of Hafsborough And Other Ballads; Young Swaigder Or The Force Of Runes And Other Ballads; Grimhild¿s Vengeance Three Ballads; The Fountain Of Maribo And Other Ballads; The Serpent Knight And Other Ballads

Detailed descriptions of the land of colonial Virginia.

The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters was written by a journalist called Logan Marshall soon after the disaster. The book is therefore based on interviews and eye-witness accounts soon after they were rescued and is a must read for anyone who is interested in this disaster. The book tells the stories of those who survived in the water or in life-boats until the arrival of the RHS Carpathia to rescue them, and then the tremendous welcome in New York City a few days later.This book is a new publication, but does not contain any of the pictures in the original.

The Annals of the Parish¿ chronicles the social and industrial changes which took place in Scotland in the late eighteenth century. Narrated by the Reverend Micah Balwhidder, a Presbyterian minister, the book is an account of his fifty-year ministry in the parish of Dalmailing from 1760 to 1810.

This "History of Cuba" was originally a series of notes from Maturin M. Ballou's journal which he kept whilst living on Cuba. The author felt certain that despite the swiftness with which this was written it was of great interest to readers because:"So critically is the island now situated, in a political point of view, that ere this book shall have passed through an edition, it may be no longer a dependency of Spain, or may have become the theatre of scenes to which its former convulsions shall bear no parallel."This edition comes with several illustrations showing a variety of sights of Cuba such as for example the entrance to the habour of Havana.

The publication features two titles, 'Word-Study' and 'Composition & Rhetoric', from the popular classic series on writing and speaking by Sherwin Cody. An easy way to learn how to communicate clearly and effectively.

F. S. Brereton is a published author of children's books. His works evoke tales of heroic deeds and dastardly villains. A prolific author, Brereton wrote over 40 books besides many magazine articles.

This edition of B. W. Jones' "The Peanut Plant" may be slim, but it covers everything the aspiring peanut farmer needs to know about growing it. As the author makes plain in his preface, the text is intended for the complete beginner and "will enable any intelligent person who has followed farming, to raise good crops of Peanuts, although he may have never before seen the growing plant". The reader will further find a wide-ranging description of the many uses of peanuts, such as for example peanut oil, peanut candy and also peanut coffee, peanut soap, etc. This edition contains the original illustrations.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), short-story writer, novelist and poet, was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907). Published in 1888, 'The Phantom 'Rickshaw' is a short story set in Simla, a popular tourist destination in British India. The story is a first person account of a man named Jack who is haunted by his past.CONTENTS:The Phantom 'Rickshaw, My Own True Ghost Story, The Strange Ride Of Morrowbie Jukes, The Man Who Would Be King, and "The Finest Story In The World".

"The man that once did sell the lion's skin while the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. Remember that!" These are the words of "The Lion's Skin" protagonist, Mr. Caryll. He is the illegitimate son of the Earl of Ostermore and his guardians have brought him up with the view to wreaking revenge on the father who had never known him. What follows is a story full of intrigue and counter-intrigue as well as revenge, jealousy and greed but also of love.The author, Rafael Sabatini (1875 - 1950) was a prolific Italian/English writer of novels of romance and adventure and wrote bestselling titles such as "The Sea Hawk", "Captain Blood" and, most notably, "Scaramouche" which was made into a film, the remake of which starred no less than Stewart Granger.

Dr. Thorndyke, medical scientist and barrister, and the first great exponent of forensics in detective fiction, here takes on the case of an unusual and perplexing jewel heist. R. Austin Freeman, well known for his experimental story construction, tries a very radical approach, combining the genres of adventure and detection in a single book. The first half of the novel deals with a major consequence of the robbery: the exploits of the chief suspect who has decamped to West Africa under an assumed name to avoid capture; only in the second half is the robbery fully described, and Dr Thorndyke brought in to apply his formidable mental powers to solving the crime.

Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg was a 19th-century German Lutheran churchman and neo-Lutheran theologian. His 'Christology of the Old Testament' is a classic on the subject of Messianic prophecies. Rejecting the higher Biblical criticism of his day, he aimed to create a line of defense against those who denied prophecy and miracle.