The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus
10 best books like The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus (Joel Chandler Harris): Ramona the Pest, The Complete Fairy Tales, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor, Perrault's Fairy Tales, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Mystical Dimensions of Islam, The Bezels of Wisdom, The Sufi Path of Love: The Spiritual Teachings of Rumi, Al-Ghazali on the Remembrance of Death and the Afterlife
| Author | Beverly Cleary |
| ISBN | 0192750976 |
This is the second title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona doesn't think she's a pest - she knows that she isn't a pest on purpose. So how in the world does Ramona get in trouble? Why does Davy run away whenever Ramona comes near him? And how does she manage to disrupt the whole kindergarten...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0517092913 |
The Complete Fairy Tales: The complete collection, Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen often referred to in Scandinavia as H. C. Andersen, (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.
All the best-loved fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen: The Tinder-Box; Little...
| Author | Rudyard Kipling |
| ISBN | 0688143202 |
Here is the thrilling story of Rikki, a fearless young mongoose who finds himself locked in a life-and-death struggle to protect a boy and his parents from Nag and Nagaina, the two enormous cobras who stalk the gardens outside the family's home in India. Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's timeless...
| Author | Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur |
| ISBN | 0375761373 |
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor Babur (1483–1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid and extraordinarily detailed picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India during the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Babur’s honest and intimate...
| Author | Charles Perrault |
| ISBN | 0486223116 |
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passé by the great Charles Perrault (1628–1703) in a translation that retains the charming and unsentimental simplicity that has won Perrault a permanent position in French literature. These were among the earliest versions...
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
| Author | Margaret Sidney |
| ISBN | 1416916172 |
Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man...
| Author | Annemarie Schimmel |
| ISBN | 0807812714 |
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the first time, a balanced historical treatment of the transnational phenomenon of Sufism—Islamic mysticism—from its beginnings through the nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie Schimmel,...
| Author | Ibn Arabi |
| ISBN | 0809123312 |
Called by Moslems "the greatest master," Ibn Al-'Arabi was a Sufi born in twelfth-century Spain. The Bezels of Wisdom was written during the author's later years and was intended to be a synthesis of his spiritual doctrine. Bezel means a setting in which a gem, engraved with one's name, is set to make...
This is the most accessible work in English on the greatest mystical poet of Islam, providing a survey of the basic Sufi and Islamic doctrines concerning God and the world, the role of man in the cosmos, the need for religion, man's ultimate becoming, the states and stations of the mystical ascent to God,...
| Author | Abu Hamid al-Ghazali |
| ISBN | 0946621136 |
This is the first English translation of the last chapter of Al-Ghazali's Revival of the Religious Sciences (Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din), widely regarded as the greatest work of Muslim spirituality. After expounding his Sufi philosophy of death and showing the importance of the contemplation of human mortality...
| Author | Idries Shah |
| ISBN | 0140192522 |
In this wide-ranging anthology of Sufi writings, Idries Shah, who was one of Sufism's leading exponents, offers a broad selection of poetry, contemplations, letters, lectures, and teaching stories that together form an illuminating introduction to this unique body of thought.
Sufism, the...
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 0385241062 |
It sort of pains me to only give this book 4 stars; it is really so good. (I am one of those people who either passionately loves a book or hates it. There is rarely an in between.)
These d'Aulaire books are GORGEOUSLY illustrated, and I feel like I am looking at a work of art as I flip through the pages....
| Author | Elizabeth George Speare |
It's the time of the American Revolution and new Americans like Matt and his family are heading out to colonize areas of virgin territory.
Matt and his father head to Maine territory to stake their claim, which involves declaring their land, building a home and planting crops. Once they've...
