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|  Fairy Tales 4 Book Set
Includes Beaumont and Perrault's Beauty and the Beast and Other Fairy Tales, Favorite Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales, and The Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.
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| | |  Medieval Literature in Translation
by Charles W. Jones
Comprehensive anthology contains exquisite cross-section of Western medieval literature, from Boethius and Augustine to Dante, Abelard, Marco Polo, and Villon, in masterful translations. "No better anthology exists." — Commonweal
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| |  The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia
by Samuel Johnson
The distinguished English writer's only novel provides a compelling glimpse of his moral views as he assails 18th-century optimism and man's unrealistic estimates of what life has to offer.
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|  The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
by J. Bédier, Hilaire Belloc
This immortal tale concerns the doomed love between a knight and a princess — one of the great romances of medieval literature, along with that of Lancelot and Guinevere.
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| |  Manalive
by G. K. Chesterton
Light-hearted work introduces Innocent Smith, a bubbly, eccentric gentleman of questionable character, into the lives of a group of young disillusioned people — and the result is inspired, high-spirited nonsense.
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|  Salome
by Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde
Lord Alfred Douglas' translation of Wilde's great play — originally written in French — with all well-known Beardsley illustrations, including suppressed plates. Features 28 Beardsley illustrations and an introduction by Robert Ross.
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