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This is a collection of three delightfully illustrated nineteenth century nursery tale books:Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect PronunciationThe Absurd ABC by Walter Crane, and A Apple Pie and Other Nursery Tales, which include:A Apple Pie.The Cats' Tea Party.This Little Pig went to Market.Nursery Rhymes. II.The Three Bears.Little Red Riding-Hood.The book comes complete with 109 black and white illustrations.

The Awakening is a work from the American south at the turn of the century. It follows the central protagonist, Edna Pontellier's, struggle to negotiate love and motherhood. This compelling novel uses an innovative combination of realistic narrative and psychological complexity that contributed to the birth of American modernist literature. It was the catalyst to creating a genre that inspired authors such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.

Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë are the world's most famous literary siblings. They were very close and during childhood developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set therein. Their work has grown in popularity over the almost two centuries since they were written.This edition collects their great novels: Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë), Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë), andThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë).

Much Ado About Nothing, with its sparkling wordplay, spirited heroine, battle of the sexes, and of course eventual romance, all mixed with a good dose of burlesque, is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied comedies. Benedick summarizes the plot: "Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."

"The Three Musketeers" is a swashbuckling classic. D'Artagnan, a poor young nobleman, leaves home to enter the elite Musketeers of the Guard. He joins the three most formidable musketeers of the age. They pit their valour and swordsmanship against the Machiavellian Cardinal Richelieu and the unscrupulous seductress Milady de Winter.

Othello is one of Shakespeare's four major tragedies. With its varied and enduring themes of love, jealousy, betrayal, racism, sexism, revenge and repentance, Othello is perhaps Shakespeare's most accessible tragedy. It is frequently performed in professional and community theatre, and has been the source for numerous operatic, film, and literary adaptations.

Over a hundred years ago James Allen discovered that one's thoughts profoundly affect one's character, physical health, achievement and even circumstances, and penned this classic to help others discover this themselves. Since then, his insight, a cornerstone of New Age thought, has been rediscovered many times.

J. C. Ryle observed that private prayer is both the most important and the most neglected of the Christian disciplines, so he delivers this passionate and reasoned call to private prayer. As ever Ryle is clear, direct, practical, soul-searching but warm and encouraging-never sentimental.