The Awakening

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There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories…
This heart-warming collection of festive short stories and novellas perfectly captures the spirit of Christmas. Focused on the journeys taken through life and the inherent goodness of mankind, these tales explore the true meaning of Christmas and revel in the joyful season of goodwill. Imbued with a moral message, Dickens’s writing gives a voice to the plight of working-class families during a period of social and political change in Victorian England.
With such tales as ‘The Chimes’, ‘The Cricket on the Hearth’ and ‘What Christmas Is, As We Grow Older’, this is a beautiful collection for Dickens fans, and a wonderful companion for all those who cherish ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-13 240 English HarperCollins UK HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved. essential classics.How did the leopard get its spots Why do the tides ebb and flow How did the elephant get its trunk And how was the alphabet madeRudyard Kiplings classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal-and humankind in a fun. eloquent and magical way -. for children and adults alike Kiplings beautifully imaginative answers echo the animal fables he heard during his childhood in India. paired with the folk tales he collected throughout his life.Kiplings enjoyment in playing with language. as well as his own delight in fatherhood. makes these stories a joy to read aloud. and children will request these tales as bedtime stories again and again. However. adults will also revel in Kiplings fanci...

‘Death and honour are thought to be the same, but today I have learned that sometimes they are not.’

Set in frontier America in the midst of the French-Indian war, as the French are attempting to overthrow an English fort, Cooper’s story follows Alice and Cora Munro, pioneer sisters who are trying to find their way back to their father, an English commander. Guided by an army major and Magua, an Indian from the Huron tribe, they soon meet Hawk-eye, a frontier scout and his Mohican Indian companions Chingachgook and Uncas. Magua is not all that he seems and the sisters are kidnapped. In The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper sets Indian tribe against Indian tribe and lays bare the brutality of the white man against the Mohicans.

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‘One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.’
Revealing the truths and realities about Irish society in the early 20th century, Joyce’s Dubliners challenged the prevailing image of Dublin at the time. A group portrait made up of 15 short stories about the inhabitants of Joyce’s native city, he offers a subtle critique of his own town, imbuing the text with an underlying tone of tragedy. Through his various characters he displays the complicated relationships, hardships and mundane details of everyday life and the desire for escape – a yearning that so closely mirrored his own experiences.