Mass.) Riverside Press (Cambridge

Published in 1895. From the preface, "The Riverside Edition...was published first in 1887. It included all the writings which the American publishers had from time to time brought out...A year later the English publishers issued a new and revised edition...the Riverside Edition was carefully compared with the author's latest revision and made to agree with it...the American publishers engaged Mr. George Willis Cooke to prepare a Guide-Book...They...

Using architecture, sculpture, culture and history, Adams humanizes the medieval period and provides valuable insight on religious philosophy. Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes provides a background and description of the construction of two French landmarks built in the 11th century. The Mont-Saint Michel cathedral was built during a militant time; it was not enough to simply be steadfast in one's own beliefs, but also to make others believe them. Religious...

One in a series of stories introducing a period in history and geographical location through the adventures of twins. Here, Dutch twins Kit and Kat spend happy hours fishing off the pier, shopping at the village market, skating on the canal, and celebrating St. Nicholas Day.

"When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place." --

Tish Carberry and her spinster-friends Aggie and Lizze are at it again. From unknowingly backing-and then winning-crooked motorcar races to subsidizing an exploitive émigré and his bride to joining the Simple Life movement and taking up residence in the woods, life is never dull for the three women and their associates. Tish is the second book in Mary Roberts Rinehart's Tish Carberry series. It includes the stories "Mind Over Motor," "Like a Wolf...

Provides an alphabetical list of women artists including such artists as Artemisia Gentileschi, Margaretha van Eyck (sister of Jan van Eyck), and Ethel Wright among many others. Also includes information about the style of art and the titles of some of the works of art.

The moving abolitionist novel that fueled the fire of the human rights debate in 1852 and melodramatically condemned the institution of slavery through such powerfully realized characters as Tom, Eliza, Topsy, Eva, and Simon Legree.

Poems.

Tales told at the fireside and in the woods, adapting such classical myths as Pandora's Box, Baucis and Philemon, and Perseus and Medusa to the storyteller's gothic or romantic environment.