The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations
10 best books like The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations (Jeff A. Menges): The Children's Book, Daddy-Long-Legs, Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table, The Complete Works, Amphigorey, A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale, The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Art of Faery, Voyage of the Basset, The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
| Author | A.S. Byatt |
| ISBN | 0307272095 |
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A spellbinding novel, at once sweeping and intimate, from the Booker Prize–winning author of Possession, that spans the Victorian era through the World War I years, and centers around a famous children’s book author and the passions, betrayals,...
When Jerusha Abbott, an eighteen-year-old girl living in an orphan asylum, was told that a mysterious millionaire had agreed to pay for her education, it was like a dream come true. For the first time in her life, she had someone she could pretend was "family." But everything was not perfect, for he chose...
Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
| Author | Thomas Malory |
| ISBN | 0451528166 |
In a time when there were damsels in distress to save, and mythical dragons to slay, King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table were there to render justice in the face of any danger. From the incredible wizardry of Merlin to the undeniable passion of Sir Launcelot, these tales of Arthur and his knights...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0517053616 |
Tempest
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Midsummer Night's Dream
Merchant of Venice
As You Like It
Taming of the Shrew
All's Well That Ends...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0399504338 |
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0684855593 |
Mr. Froud’s fascination and delight with the idea of hidden worlds shine through in this story about a fuzzy, furry creature who gets tossed willy nilly into a quest to rouse a sleeping queen and aid her worried spouse. The posed figures easily capture the fey spirit of the imaginary paths Sneezle must...
| Author | Susan Wise Bauer |
| ISBN | 0393059278 |
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school. Two veteran home educators outline the classical pattern of education—the trivium—which organizes learning around the maturing capacity...
| Author | David Riche |
| ISBN | 1843400952 |
From the gothic fantasies of Amy Brown to Myrea Pettit’s gentle, playful creatures, this breathtaking collection of superbly reproduced paintings celebrates the finest in fairy art. Each illustrator has chosen his or her favorite pieces, and all the artists reveal their inspiration, preferred...
| Author | James C. Christensen |
| ISBN | 1885183585 |
"Believing is Seeing"
In the tradition of such favorite classics as Gulliver's Travels and Journey to the Center of the Earth, Voyage of the Basset takes the reader on a fantastical journey of discovery. Through richly detailed full-color paintings and line drawings, magical kingdoms emerge...
| Author | Jessie Wise |
| ISBN | 0972860312 |
Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills—and don't know how to help. Phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving...
| Author | Brian Froud |
| ISBN | 0684847817 |
"Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc..." In the long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller "Faeries",...
| Author | C.S. Evans |
| ISBN | 0679428143 |
And so on to the next Everyman Library children's classic this time the famous story of Sleeping Beauty.
There are two things that strike me about this book - the first is the subtle and understated artwork which is adorned throughout the book - mainly silhouettes some few a few coloured highlights...
Banksy.: You Are an Acceptable Level of Threat
| Author | Gary Shove |
| ISBN | 1908211083 |
A collection of photographs of Banksy's street work. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat concentrates on this singular artist's iconic imagery, spanning the late '90s up until the end of 2011. The locations are from around the world (predominantly the UK, US and Europe), and many images have never...
| Author | Sarah Mucha |
| ISBN | 0711225176 |
Generally agreed to be one of the most important contributors to Art Nouveau, the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha was trained, celebrated and lived most of his life in Paris. His unforgettably iconic images of Sarah Bernhardt and others embody the spirit of the fin de siècle. But underneath his successful...
| Author | Lucius Shepard |
| ISBN | 0812530047 |
i first read shepard via the terry carr ace sf specials (round 2), green eyes is still THE iconic magical realist sci-fi zombie text in my opinion (not that there are many contenders)... eagle-eyed hepcat readers of that tome may have noticed that sonic youth jacked some of the veves from it for the sister...
| Author | George Bernard Shaw |
| ISBN | 0451530098 |
The ancient Greeks tell the legend of the sculptor Pygmalion, who created a statue of a woman of such surpassing beauty that he fell in love with his own creation. Then, Aphrodite, taking pity on this man whose love could not reach beyond the barrier of stone, brought the statue to life and gave her to Pygmalion...
Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran
Your Lebanon is an arena for men from the West and men from the East. My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadows and rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards. You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon...
Selected Poems : W.B Yeats
| Author | Carle Bonafous-Murat |
| ISBN | 2200350074 |
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