In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.
The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone.
We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies (For some recent views on fairies and tales about fairies, see Notes.)
In America, in 1770, a well-defined aristocracy held control.
Soils and national characters differ; but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment.
Nations yet to come will look back upon his history as to some grand and supernatural romance.
Two years before the mast were but an episode in the life of Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
John Dewey's Democracy and Education.
Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.
Twenty-four-year-old Jane Marshall is unattractive, poor, struggling to educate herself.
From the author: I find the small acts within my observation interesting enough to merit writing.
To summon a dead religion from its forgotten grave and to make it tell its story, would require an enchanter's wand.
Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be placed at the service of commerce and industry.
The Education of Henry Adams is the autobiography of the Bostonian Henry Adams.
It goes without saying that this book is to be enjoyed with a dram or two of your favorite single malt. Don't have one? Don't worry, you will.
Wallace Stevens' torrid words serve as both epigraph and incantation for Adrienne Weiss's powerful debut collection.
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot's third collection of poetry, walks an oscillating lyrical tightrope between realms of cosmopolitan sophistication and ribald hilarity.
Abundantly Simple is a brilliantly funny response to the enormously popular and saccharine-sweet bestseller Simple Abundance.
From the calm Pacific to the storm-tossed prairie, a teasing puzzle turns into a frightening game.
Naming the Mannequins is an ecstatic journey through the seamy underbelly of a fading.