Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 160664856X ISBN 13: 9781606648568
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'The cuckoo clock has stopped!' exclaims little Griselda. 'Stopped!' says Miss Tabitha, throwing up her hands. 'Impossible!' 'I mean cuckoo has stopped,' the girl says. 'The clock is going on, but the cuckoo isn't telling the hours.' 'What can we do ' says Miss Tabitha. 'Should we send for the watch-maker ' But Miss Grizzel shakes her head, and says, 'That would be worse than useless, Tabitha. Were we to search the world over, we would find no one to put it right. Fifty years and more, that clock has never missed an hour! We are getting old, Tabitha -- and maybe our day is nearly over!' 112 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 160664842X ISBN 13: 9781606648421
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In all the fairy tales Hortense read, the houses were deliriously strange . . . and now she was going to stay in one, with her grandparents!Later, a great tortoise-shell cat sauntered in while her grandparents were talking -- about ghosts! 'That cat . . . he understands every word,' Hortense said to herself with conviction. She began to be a little afraid of the cat . . . for everything in the room disliked him, she sensed. The lowboy no longer smiled but looked rather solemn and foolish. The chairs stood stiffly, as though offended at his presence. The white owl on the shelf glared fiercely with his yellow eyes, and the firedogs in the hearth fairly snapped their teeth! 120 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 1606648594 ISBN 13: 9781606648599
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The sparkling stories from the author of Five Children and It and many other classics! 'Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger,' 'The Deliverers of Their Country,' 'The Ice Dragon, or Do as You are Told,' 'The Island Of the Nine Whirlpools,' 'The Dragon Tamers,' 'The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold,' and 'Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice.' These stories -- written in 1900 for The Strand magazine -- still charm and sparkle like pixie dust and dragon's gems for young and old alike more than a century later. 108 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 1606648799 ISBN 13: 9781606648797
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -SUMMER MAGIC!When Captain Carey went on his long journey into the unknown and uncharted land, the rest of the Careys tried in vain for a few months to be still a family, and did not succeed at all. They clung as closely to one another as ever they could, but there was always a gap in the circle where father had been. The only thing to do was to remember father's pride and justify it, to recall his care for mother and take his place so far as might be; the only thing for all, as the months went on, was to be what mother called the three Bs -- brave, bright, and busy. Can mother Nancy Carey find happy futures for her daughters Nancy and Kitty in turn-of-the-century Beulah, Maine Perhaps But for certain, she finds some wonderful characters and sparkling moments of Gilded Age Girl-Power! 176 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 1606648543 ISBN 13: 9781606648544
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Young Malcolm MacPhail has already had his audience in the hall of the richly clad widow -- mother of the mad laird, Stephen Stewart. Malcolm has gained the laird's trust -- and with all the honesty of his heart he will do nothing against the poor man, even if it means pitting himself against the plans of the laird's wealthy mother. So strongly set is Malcolm's conscience it threatens to put him on bad terms, too, with the Marquis, with whom he has found shelter and employment. Yet Malcolm knows the ways of his own heart -- and he knows the mad laird is not the idiot the rest of the world believes him to be! 220 pp. Englisch.
Publicado por Aegypan Jun 2008, 2008
ISBN 10: 1606648233 ISBN 13: 9781606648230
Librería: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Alemania
Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Time has brought changes to the March household -- home of the girls Jo, Amy, Beth and Meg, introduced in Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women. Having returned safely from war, Mr. March has become a trusted and beloved minister in the local parish. Home, too, is young John Brooke, whose plans for a shared life with Meg, however modest and poor that life may turn out to be, make the eldest March girl think herself the happiest soul in Christendom. The young lovers will live in a charming little house dubbed 'The Dovecote,' with its front lawn the size of a handkerchief. Life promises adventures and fulfillment for the other March girls, as well -- for not only are their talents developing, but they are growing older and more accomplished in the complicated matter of living their own lives. Tomboyish Jo's curly crop is lengthening into long coils, and she is learning to carry herself with ease -- if not quite with grace. Beth has grown slender, pale, and more quiet than ever, with beautiful eyes brimming with kindness. And Amy, the flower of the family, at sixteen already has the air and bearing of a full-gown woman, and exerts an indescribable charm -- especially on young men. 220 pp. Englisch.