Joseph Jacobs: 134 books
by Joseph Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2012
This affordable volume features 26 enchanting stories assembled from Welsh, Scottish, and Irish sources, including "King O'Toole and His Goose," "The Lad with the Goat Skin, "The Sea Maiden," and many more. The stories are accompanied by 46 illustrations from their original editions.
by Joseph Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
A leading British folklorist presents this now-classic compilation of 29 traditional tales from India. Nine full-page plates and 37 other drawings illustrate "The Lion and the Crane," "Sun, Moon, and Wind Go Out to Dinner," "The Prince and the Fakir," "The Talkative Tortoise," "Why the Fish Laughed," and other fables.
by Joseph Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...
by Joseph Jacobs, John Dickson Batten
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Ever since – almost exactly a hundred years ago – the Grimms produced their Fairy Tale Book, folk-lorists have been engaged in making similar collections for all the other countries of Europe, outside Germany, till there is scarcely a nook or a corner in the whole continent that has not been ransacked...
by Joseph Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
English Fairy Tales (FREE Audiobook Included!)
-Included TOC for Reader.
-Included biography the author.
-Free Audiobook link for download.
Preface
Who says that English folk have no fairy-tales of their own? The present volume contains only a selection...
by Anon E. Mouse, Illustrated by John D. Batten, Compiled and Edited by Joseph Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
This volume contains 43 English folk and fairy tales. Stories like
“Tom Tit Tot”,
“The Three Sillies”,
“The Rose Tree”,
“The Old Woman and Her Pig”,
“How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune”,
“Mr. Vinegar”,
“Nix Nought Nothing” and many, many more.
Many of the tales in...
A Gathering Darkness
Thirteen Classic English Ghost Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Thirteen Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories that send chills up the spine and create an atmosphere sure to make the reader turn on an extra light and push up the back of their armchair against the wall.
Set amidst crumbling, ill-maintained churches and imposing cathedrals, on desolate coastland,...
by Jacobs, Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 – 30 January 1916) was an Australian folklorist, literary critic, historian and writer of English literature who became a notable collector and publisher of English Folklore. His work went on to popularize some of the world's best known versions of English fairy tales...
America's Miracle Man in Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem, Religion, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
America’s Miracle Man in Vietnam rethinks the motivations behind one of the most ruinous foreign-policy decisions of the postwar era: America’s commitment to preserve an independent South Vietnam under the premiership of Ngo Dinh Diem. The so-called Diem experiment is usually ascribed to U.S....
by Frederick Douglass, Solomon Northup, Willie Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
This unique collection of "SLAVERY: Hundreds of Documented Testimonies of Former Slaves, Influential Memoirs, Records on Living Conditions and Customs in the South & History of Abolitionist Movement" has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. Contents: Narrative...
The Unchained: Powerful Life Stories of Former Slaves
Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Narratives of Former Slaves (Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement)
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves, including numerous recorded testimonies, life stories and original photos of former slaves long after Civil War: Recorded Life Stories of Former Slaves from 17 different US States Narrative of the Life of Frederick...
The Faces Behind the Chains: Thousands of Recorded Interviews, Memoirs & Life Stories of Former Slaves
Including Historical Documents & Legislative Progress of Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this carefully created collection of thousands memoirs & life stories of former slaves. "The Faces Behind the Chains" strongly conveys the circumstances and brutal reality of a slave's life to a reader. This unique collection consists of the most influential...
by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Montague Rhodes James
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2019
This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the...
HALLOWEEN Boxed Set
550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...