N. C. Wyeth
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Before Andrew and Jamie, there was N. C. Wyeth. The star student of Howard Pyle's Brandywine School, Newell Convers Wyeth (1882–1945) created more than 3,000 illustrations in the course of his career. This original full-color collection focuses on his most popular illustrations, featuring early works that date from 1910-30. More than 100 iconic images include scenes from The Last of the Mohicans, The Mysterious Stranger, Robin Hood, Robinson Crusoe,...
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Leatherstocking tales volume 2
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English
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A tale of adventure, treachery, and friendship in the battle-torn wilderness of eighteenth-century upstate New York.
3) The yearling
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English
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
4) Robin Hood
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An abridged version of the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
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"Letters of a Woman Homesteader" is the fascinating true tale of life on the American frontier by Elinore Pruitt Stewart. First published in 1914, Stewart's work is a collection of 26 letters written by Stewart from 1909 to 1914 which follow her adventures in Wyoming. Born Elinore Pruitt in 1876 in Chickasaw Nation territory in modern day Oklahoma, her birth father died when she was very young and her mother and step-father both died when Stewart...
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Novela póstuma de Mark Twain publicada en 1916 por el albacea literario del autor, Albert B. Paine, El forastero misterioso se sitúa en la vena satírica de su autor, y por lo tanto moral. La llegada durante la Edad Media a una población austriaca, dominada por el odio entre sus dos sacerdotes, de un extraño ángel que se hace llamar Satán, provoca el revuelo entre el vecindario. Y no sólo por su repertorio milagrero, sino por su énfasis en...
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King Arthur's stories are timeless tales that have been told countless times since the fifteenth century when Sir Thomas Malory introduced them in Le Morte d'Arthur. The basis for the upcoming film, this collection is retold by famed American poet and author Sidney Lanier. He imbues the legendary stories with action and adventure, accompanied by N. C. Wyeth's breathtaking illustrations.
Readers will enjoy the daring exploits of Arthur and his knights....
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The famous adventure novel, Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in a new beautiful Pook Press edition, with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth
A swashbuckling tale of pirates, maps and treasure. The story begins with an old sailor who appears an inn on the west English coast, talking of a sea chest and secret treasure map. When the sailor dies, his charge is left with Jim, the innkeeper's son, who discovers the chest and map. In no time,...
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Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature.
Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...
10) Robinson Crusoe
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During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island before being rescued
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Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created volume of "The Greatest Works of Emerson Hough — 19 Books in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)".
The Young Alaskans Series
The Young Alaskans
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
The Young Alaskans on the Trail
Young Alaskans in the Far North
The Young Alaskans on the Missouri
Other Novels
The Girl at the Halfway House
The Mississippi Bubble
The Law of the Land
Heart's Desire
The Way of a Man
54-40...