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Synopsis Two of Potter's tales with their original text and pictures. "Peter Rabbit Tales" follows the adventures of Peter Rabbit through four tales. "Tom Kitten Tal...

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THIS IS A BROWN AND GOLD LEATHERBOUND HARDBACK FROM THE HERON BOOKS COLLECTION FROM THE EARLY 1970'S. IT IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.

Synopsis This tale of an otter's life and death in Devon, captures the feel of life in the wild as seen through the otter's own eyes. THIS IS A BROWN AND GOLD LEATHERBOUND HARDBACK...

By the English astrologer, philosopher, statesman, spy, freemason and essayist, this is Sir Francis Bacon's 1605 argument in favour of natural philosophy and inductive reasoning, a...

Synopsis The best known of Plato's dialogues, "The Republic" applies the principles of philosophy to political affairs. Ostensibly a discussion of the nature of justice, ...

This story is about a boy reaching manhood and the battle that he fights within himself, and the battle without against man and the unrelenting power of nature. At points it is dif...

[Matt Bramble] affects misanthropy, in order to conceal the sensibility of a heart, which is tender, even to a degree of weakness. This delicacy of feeling, or soreness of the mind...

Synopsis Set in the time of the Napoleonic Wars, 'Mr Midshipman Easy' follows the escapades of a young sailor who enters the king's service with some interesting ideas about discip...

Briefly, the story concerns four people in Pompeii in the period leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried the city in ash in AD 79. They are Glaucus, a Greek-born, ...

Synopsis A mysterious benefactor provides Philip Pirrip with the chance to escape his poor upbringing. Aspiring to be a gentleman, and encouraged by his expectations of wealth, he ...

Synopsis The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of ch...