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The Chihuahua - A Complete Anthology of the Dog gathers together all the best early writing on the breed from our library of scarce, out-of-print antiquarian books and documents and reprints it in a quality, modern edition. This anthology includes chapters taken from a comprehensive range of books, many of them now rare and much sought-after wor...

Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic--in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art. Historic firsthand accounts and testimonies by survivors and eye- witnesses including Lawrence Beesley, Margaret Brown, Archibald Gracie, Carlos F. Hurd and many more.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern Mystery and Detective Stories: Old English Stories By English Authors Best Russian Short Stories Seven Icelandic Short Stories Best American Humorous Stories Famous Modern Ghost Stories The Most Interesting Stories of All Nations: Real Life

“The collection consistently does what the oeuvre does best: communicate intense emotion with force, give life to characters that struggle with their circumstances, illuminate the universal through the specific and the particular, and turn the commonplace into art.” Globe and Mail  “[The anthology] amuses, astonishes, and enlightens; it is a del...

As in The Oxford Book of English Verse I tried to range over the whole field of the English Lyric, and to choose the best, so in this volume I have sought to bring together the best Ballads out of the whole of our national stock. But the method, order, balance of the two books are different perforce, as the fates of the Lyric and the Ballad have...

JE suis encore tout étourdi des événements, déjà lointains pourtant et quasi oubliés, de la semaine passée. Quel étrange moment de notre histoire! Je sais des millions de gens paisibles qui s'endorment, comme moi, confiants dans la paix, le calme apparent, la raison, et qui sont exposés à se réveiller au coup de clairon ou au coup de cornet à bo...

""Deer Ant Roxy,—Ive hed consider'ble many calls for mittins along back this Winter: mostly they're wove goods, thet dont last no time. Its come into my head that mabbe you'd jest as lives make a leetle suthin to buy snuff an' handkerchers with, odd times, and reklectin you used to be a master hand to knit this is for to say that ef you'd fall t...

On the first page of this New-Year's number of Harper's Young People is a picture of the first New-Year's call of the season, which is one made at the door of every house in the land just as the clock strikes twelve on New-Year's Eve.The little fur-clad figure knocking for admittance is that of New Year himself, Master Eighteen Eighty-One, laden...

A surgeon of Leeds, (Eng.,) says Buffon, found a little spaniel who had been lamed. He carried the poor animal home, bandaged up his leg, and, after two or three days, turned him out. The dog returned to the surgeon's house every morning, till the leg was perfectly well. At the end of several months, the spaniel again presented himself, in compa...