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Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Rafael Palacios Binding Pages: 586 Original Publish Date: 1933 Country: United States Genre: Historical Fiction Synopsis: "Rabble in Arms has been called 'the greatest historical novel written about America,' and there is little doubt that as the portrayer of the early American scene in all its excitement and its rich human drama... Kenneth Roberts has done real spade work in historical research, has corrected a number of errors in history, and has supplied many details omitted by conventional historians. But while this great book is accurate history, graphically told, it is something more. Against this background of stirring events the author relates an appealing tale of young love. We witness the impact of war upon the lives and fortunes of the men and women caught up in its tumult."

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Mercier Replica Binding Pages: 670 Original Publish Date: 1848 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Satire Fiction Synopsis: "The story is framed by its preface and coda as a puppet show taking place at a fair, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is notoriously unreliable." -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Mercier Replica Binding Pages: 655 Dracula by Bram Stoker Original Publish Date: May 26, 1897 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Horror Fiction Synopsis:   "The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and a woman led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing." -Wikipedia Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Full Title: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Original Publish Date: January 1, 1818 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Horror Fiction Synopsis: "A novel that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment." -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Marie Antoinette Binding Pages: 627 Original Publish Date: about 1400 Country: England Genre: Epic Poetry Synopsis: "The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return." -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Marie Antoinette Binding Pages: 427 Publish Date: 1961 Translated By: Robert Fitzgerald Original Publish Date: about 8th century BC Country: Greece Genre: Epic Poetry Synopsis: "The story of a powerful and gifted prince who went to a ten-year war (the Trojan war) and helped to win it, who then, faring homeward, fell into the hands of a designing woman; who wandered far by land and sea and had various adventures both natural and supernatural; who, reaching home at last, found his palace on the island of Ithaca off the west coast of Greece infested by parasites contending for his wife's hand and lands, for they thought him dead; and who, in one of the grandest fights on record, cleanses his house and comes into his own again."

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Marie Antoinette Binding Pages: 525 Publish Date: 1962 Translated By: Richard Lattimore Original Publish Date: around 8th century BC Country: Greece Genre: Epic Poetry Synopsis: "The plot of the 15,000-line poem might be capsulated in the phrase the wrath of Achilles ... for the whole exciting story is based upon what happened during the Trojan War when the illustrious Grecian warrior, deprived of his lady love, sulked in his tent while the fortunes of war went against his companions in arms. It is only the death of Patroclus--the valiant friend who has borrowed Achilles' armor to fight in his place--that brings Achilles and his men back into the fray and opens the way to the final defeat of the defenders of Ilium's topless towers."

Publisher: International Collector's Library Binding: Madame de Pompadour Binding Pages: 439 Original Publish Date: 1844 Country: France Genre: Adventure Fiction Synopsis: "The story opens with D'Artagnan, impetuous and warm-hearted Gascon adventurer, leaving for Paris, eager to join the corps of musketeers who serve Louis XIII. He meets three of the musketeers and after besting them in a duel, is amicably accepted as a companion. Great events are happening. Cardinal Richelieu, the shrewd prelate who is the king's prime minister, has set about strengthening the central government, consolidating the power of France after the Thirty Years' War, and crushing the Huguenots as a separate political group. More important, so far as the four young guardsmen are concerned, is the fact that the cardinal is feuding with the queen--Anne of Austria--and seeking to expose her romantic indiscretions to the king. D'Artagnan and his gay companions become inv...

In honor of the National Scavenger Hunt Day (May 24) here is a book scavenger hunt through my book collection... DO YOU HAVE A BOOK... 1) ...with deckled edges? "Blackwood Farm" by Anne Rice

Publisher: International Collector's Library Binding: Victorian Replica Binding Pages: 425 Original Publish Date: 1880 Country: France Genre: Fiction Synopsis: "Nana tells the story of Nana Coupeau's rise from streetwalker to high-class prostitute during the last three years of the French Second Empire. In the course of the novel Nana destroys every man who pursues her." -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Victorian Replica Binding Pages: 696 Original Publish Date: 1869 Country: Russia Genre: Historical Fiction Synopsis: "The novel chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families." -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Masque and Bauble Bozerian Binding Pages: 378 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Play + Poetry Contains: "Henry VI., Part I" "Henry VI., Part II" "Henry VI., Part III" "Richard III" "Richard II" "King John" "Henry IV., Part I" "Henry IV., Part II" "Henry V" "Henry VIII" Poems

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Masque and Bauble Bozerian Binding Pages: 396 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Play Contains: "Love's Labour's Lost" "The Comedy of Errors" "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "The Merchant of Venice" "The Taming of the Shrew" "The Merry Wives of Windsor" "Much Ado About Nothing" "As You Like It" "Twelfth Night" "All's Well That Ends Well" "Measure For Measure" "Troilus and Cressida" "The Tempest" "The Winter's Tale"

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Masque and Bauble Bozerian Binding Pages: 378 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Play Contains: "Titus Andronicus" "Romeo & Juliet" "Julius Caesar" "Hamlet" "Othello" "King Lear" "Macbeth" "Antony & Cleopatra" "Coriolanus" "Timon of Athens" "Pericles, Prince of Tyre" "Cymbeline"

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Oriental Tree of Life Replica Binding Pages: 472 Translator: Sir Richard Burton Illustrator: Steele Savage Original Title: The Thousand Nights and a Night Country: Middle East Genre: Fiction Synopsis: " The Arabian Nights -- more correctly known as The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night ( Kitab Alf Laylah wa Laylah ) has been called the world's greatest single treasure house of fiction.    "To open the pages of this immortal classic is to enter a world of savory delights. Ben Ray Redman has aptly described it thus: 'It is a world in which all the senses feast riotously, upon sights and sounds and perfumes; upon fruits and flowers and jewels; upon wines and stuffs and sweets; and upon yielding flesh, both male and female, whose beauty is incomparable. Romance lurks behind every shuttered window; every veiled glance begets an intrigue; and in every servant's hand nestles a scented...

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 565 Publish Date: 1969 Country: United States Genre: Fiction Contains stories from: "The Four Million" "Heart of the West" "The Gentle Grafter" "Roads of Destiny" "Cabbages and Kings" "Options" "Sixes and Sevens" "Rolling Stones" "Whirligigs" "The Voice of the City" "The Trimmed Lamp" "Strictly Business" "Waifs and Strays"

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 736 Publish Date: 1966 Country: United States Genre: Fiction A sample of stories: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" "Ligeia" "The Tell-tale Heart" "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Pit and the Pendulum" "The Masque of the Red Death" "The Devil in the Belfry" "The Oval Portrait" ...plus many more!

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 632 Original Title: Kinder, und HausMärchen Original Publish Date: December 20, 1812 Country: Germany Genre: Children's Fiction A sample of stories: "The Frog Prince" "Tom Thumb" "Cinderella" "Rapunzel" "The Sleeping Beauty" "Hansel and Gretel" "Little Red Riding Hood" "Rumpelstiltskin" "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs" ...plus many more! Fun Fact: Stories have been censored in various publications for not being suitable for children.

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 646+ Compile by: Kemp P. Battle Illustrated by: John M. Battle Publish Date: 1986 Country: United States Genre: Fiction A sample of folklore stories: "Davy Crockett and the Fiddler in the River" "How Johnny Appleseed Brought Apple Blossoms to the West" "The Ballad of Casey Jones" "Captain John Smith and Pocahontas" "Yankee Doodle" "John Henry, the Steel-Drivin' Man" "Black-Eyed Susie" "The Girl with the Lavender Dress" "Shotgun Charlie's Sage Advice" "Jesse James Meets Wild Bill" "Doc Holliday" "Butch Cassidy Robs the Payroll Train" "Home on the Range" "The Saga of Pecos Bill" "Babe, Paul Bunyan's Blue Ox" ...plus many more

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 229 Illustrations by: Ethel Franklin Betts Publish Date: 1987 Genre: Poetry Country: United States Synopsis: "Mother Goose is the imaginary author of a collection of French fairy tales and later of English nursery rhymes. As a character, she appeared in a song, the first stanza of which often functions now as a nursery rhyme." -Wikipedia A sample of nursery rhymes: "Baa, baa, black Sheep" "Hey, diddle, diddle" "Hickory dickory dock" "Humpty Dumpty" "Jack and Jill" "Jack, be nimble" "Little Bo-Peep" "Little Boy Blue" "Little Miss Muffet" "London Bridge is falling down" "Mary, Mary, quite contrary" "Old King Cole" "Old Mother Hubbard" "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater" "Rain, Rain, go away" "Rock-a-bye, Baby...

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: Tree of Life Binding Pages: 838+ Selected by: Nancy Sullivan Publish Date: 1978 Country: United States Genre: Poetry Contains poems from: Anne Bradstreet, 1612-1672 Edward Taylor, 1645?-1729 Philip Freneau, 1752-1832 Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters), 1753?-1784 Joel Barlow, 1754-1812 Royall Tyler, 1757-1826 William Cullen Bryant, 1794-1878 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894 Edgar Allen Poe, 1809-1849 Jones Very, 1813-1880 Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862 James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Herman Melville, 1819-1891 Walt Whitman, 1819-1892 A Sampler of Hymns, Spirituals and Songs Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, 1821-1873 Henry Timrod, 1828-1897 Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886 Edgar Lee Masters, 1868-1950 Edwin Arlington Robinson, 1869-1935 Stephen Crane, 1871-1900 Robert Frost, 1874-1963 Gertrude Ste...

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 155 Original Publish Date: May 17, 1900 Country: United States Genre: Children's Fiction Synopsis: "The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone." -Wikipedia Fun Fact: Banned in United States (Detroit) in 1957 for having "no value" for children. -Wikipedia

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 331 Original Publish Date: 1932 + 1933 Country: United States Genre: Comedy Fiction Synopsis: " Tobacco Road is set in rural Georgia, several miles outside Augusta, Georgia, during the worst years of the Great Depression. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as one of the many small Southern cotton farmers made redundant by the industrialization of production and the migration into cities. The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his faith in the fertility and promise of the soil." -Wikipedia " God's Little Acre is about a dysfunctional farming family in Georgia obsessed with sex and wealth." -Wikipedia Fun Fact:   God's Little Acre was banned in the United States in 1950 for being pornographic.

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 250 Original Publish Date: 1932 + September 19, 1935 Country: United States Genre: Children Fiction Synopsis:   " Little House in the Big Woods takes place in 1871 and introduces us to four-year-old Laura, who lives in a log cabin on the edge of the Big Woods of Wisconsin. She shares the cabin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their lovable dog, Jack.    "Pioneer life isn't easy for the Ingalls family, since they must grow or catch all their own food as they get ready for the cold winter. But they make the best of every tough situation. They celebrate Christmas with homemade toys and treats, do their spring planting, bring in the harvest in the fall, and make their first trip into town. And every night, safe and warm in their little house, the sound of Pa's fiddle lulls Laura and her sisters into sleep." -Goodreads " In Little house o...

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 306 Original Publish Date: July 11, 1960 Country : United States Genre: Bildungsroman Fiction Synopsis: "The novel is renowned for its warmth and humor, despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality. The narrator's father, Atticus Finch, has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers. The story, told by the six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama." -Wikipedia Fun Fact: Challenged in the United States for racial slurs. -ALA

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 733 Original Publish Date: June 30, 1936 Country: United States Genre: Bildungsroman Fiction Synopsis: "The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea." -Goodreads Fun Fact: Challenged in the United States for racial slurs.

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 496 Original Publish Date: 1868/1869 (as two parts) Country: United States Genre: Bildungsroman Fiction Full Title: Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy Synopsis: "Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War." -Goodreads

Publisher: International Collectors Library Binding: William Morris Binding Pages: 502 Original Publish Date: October 18, 1851 Country: United States Genre: Adventure Fiction Full Title: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Synopsis: "The epic saga of the fanatical Captain Ahab, who swears vengeance on the mammoth white whale that has crippled him. Often considered to be the Great American Novel, Moby-Dick is at once a starkly realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure, and a searing drama of heroic courage, moral conflict, and mad obsession." -Goodreads Fun Fact: The early copies of the British books were censored and some parts of the book were omitted.

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Pages: 290 Original Publish Date: December 1847 Country: United Kingdom Genre: Tragedy Fiction Synopsis: "A brooding Yorkshire tale of a love that is stronger than death, it is also a fierce vision of metaphysical passion, in which heaven and hell, nature and society, are powerfully juxtaposed. Unique, mystical, with a timeless appeal, it has become a classic of English literature." -Goodreads

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Pages: 295 Original Publish Date: December 10, 1884 Country: United States Genre: Picaresque Fiction Synopsis: "A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt who mistakes him for Tom." -Goodreads Fun Fact: Banned in United States in 1885 and Soviet Union in 1930 for the use of racial slurs and later challenged in United States for a complete removal from the school districts. According to ALA, it is one of the top five most challenged books. -Wikipedia, -Censorpedia

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Pages: 271 Original Publish Date: 1876 Country: United States Genre: Picarsque Fiction Synopsis: "The novel is about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. It is set in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, inspired by Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived as a boy. In the novel Tom Sawyer has several adventures, often with his friend, Huckleberry Finn." -Wikipedia Fun Fact: Banned in Soviet Union in 1930 and challenged in United States for racial slurs. -Wikipedia

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Pages: 475 Original Publish Date: 1852 Country: United States Genre: Historical Fiction Original Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly Synopsis: "Stowe's characters are powerfully and humanly realized in Uncle Tom, a majestic and heroic slave whose faith and dignity are never corrupted; Eliza and her husband, George, who elude slave catchers and eventually flee a country that condones slavery; Simon Legree, a brutal plantation owner; Little Eva, who suffers emotionally and physically from the suffering of slaves; and fun-loving Topsy, Eva's slave playmate." -Goodreads Fun Fact: Banned in the United States (Confederacy) during the Civil War for its anti-slavery content and banned in Russia in 1852 for "undermining religious ideals." -Wikipedia

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday Binding: Hardcover Pages: 214 Original Publish Date: 1850 Country: United States Genre: Historical Romance Full Title: The Scarlet Letter: A Romance Synopsis: "Set in Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. The book explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt." -Wikipedia Fun Fact: The Scarlet Letter was banned in Russia in 1852 and challenged throughout the United States for being "pornographic and obscene." -Censorpedia