**A compendium of fantastical and enchanting tales,**now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Children’s Signature Clothbound Editions line.From the deep forests of Germany, a treasury of folk stories was gathered by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century. These are not just any tales—they are full of cunning witches, magical beasts, brave children, and hapless princesses.Grimm’s Fairy Tales collects some of the best-kno...

Originally curated by Harvard President Charles W. Eliot as a complete liberal education in fifty volumes, the Harvard Classics gathers philosophy, science, literature, and history into a single indispensable library. Plato's dialogues and Marcus Aurelius's meditations sit alongside Dante's Divine Comedy, Francis Bacon's essays, Charles Darwin's scientific writing, and Benjamin Franklin's autobiography, tracing the foundations of Western thought from ancient Greece to the modern age. Homer...

Enter a world of magic, mystery, and moral wonder—where every tale teaches and enchants. The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales collects over 200 unforgettable stories from Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the legendary German brothers whose folklore inspired generations. From beloved childhood favorites to darker, lesser-known tales, this collection brings together the full range of Grimm storytelling—captivating both children and adults with timeless lessons and rich imagination. This beautifully form...

Make the Christmas season brighter with a wonderful collection of stories, poems, and timeless holiday tales. The Big Book of Christmas brings together a generous selection of classic Christmas stories, festive poems, fairy tales, and seasonal writings by various authors, offering hours of holiday reading for the whole family. From snowy winter nights and cozy firesides to family gatherings, unexpected adventures, acts of kindness, and magical Christmas encounters, these stories capture th...

Enter a world of enchanted forests, mysterious castles, brave heroes, wicked villains, and magical transformations. Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales brings together the legendary collection of traditional European tales gathered and published by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm. These enduring stories have captivated generations with their memorable characters, magical worlds, unexpected dangers, and timeless lessons. The collection features beloved tales such as Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel,...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - The Divine Comedy [Dante Alighieri] - Emma [Jane Austen] - Persuasion [Jane Austen] - Pride and Prejudice [Jane Austen] - Father Goriot [Honoré de Balzac] - Jane Eyre [Charlotte Brontë] - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall [Anne Brontë] - Wuthering Heights [Emily Brontë] - The Way of All Flesh [Samuel Butler] - Don Quixote [Miguel de Cervantes] - Heart of Darkness [Joseph Conrad] - Nostromo [Joseph Conrad] - Mo...

This book, newly updated, contains the complete Grimm’s 200 fairy tales and 10 children's legends.Jacob Grimm (1785-1863) and his brother Wilhelm (1786-1859) were philologists and folklorists. The brothers rediscovered a host of fairy tales, telling of princes and princesses in their castles, witches in their towers and forests, of giants and dwarfs, of fabulous animals and dark deeds.Together with the well-known tales of Rapunzel, The Goose-Gir...

"I won't leave you alone, my dragon. Your angel will always return to you."The Great Union. The Great Assault. The same event with different truths. For some angels, they find their perfect mates among the demons who follow Asagoroth through the heavenly gates. For others, they wish to forget and return to their blessed peace among the stars.For Trystan, he's trying to balance building a new society alongside his sister, the angelic peers who once shunned and shame...

Santa's Christmas Library gathers more than four hundred seasonal narratives, poems, carols, legends, and illustrated selections into a capacious archive of Christmas writing. Moving from folktale and devotional verse to domestic realism, fantasy, satire, and moral fable, the volume traces the holiday's literary transformations across languages and centuries. Canonical Christmas narratives stand beside fairy tales, hymns, children's literature, and lesser-known period pieces, while such la...

The Greatest Christmas Stories of All Time is a treasury of short fiction by great writers of the past two centuries — from Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy to Willa Cather, Damon Runyon and Beatrix Potter. As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderfully engaging anthology.

After Horrorville High burned down over the summer, Hollow and her friends have no choice but to attend the Fairytale school: The Fairly Fabulous Academy of Fantastical Happily Ever Afters. For the first time, Hollow Dullahan leaves the gloomy, haunted comfort of Horrorville for the (too) bright, magical Enchanted Forest.If being surrounded by pastels and too perfect students wasn't enough, she struggles to make sense of strange teachers, navigate unfamiliar halls, and contend with...

The novel revolves around a mysterious murder linked to a distinctive red bicycle. The story is set in a small English town where the discovery of a man's body, apparently the victim of foul play, sets the plot in motion. The body is found near a red bicycle, which becomes a crucial piece of evidence in the ensuing investigation.As the investigation unfolds, various characters with potential motives are introduced. The bicycle, a striking and unusual color, becomes a symbol of the crime, w...