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Clockwork Orange
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In this 1962 classic, a novelistic exploration of modern crime and punishment, Alex is the 15-year-old leader of his gang of "droogs" thriving in the ultraviolent future as prophetically imagined by Burgess. Speaking a bizarre Russian-derived slang, Alex and his friends freely pillage and slash their way across a nightmarish urban landscape until ...
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Burgess Bird Book for Children
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Thornton W Burgess
"This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children. As such, and in no sense whatever as a competitor with the many excellent books on this subject, but rather to supplement ...
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Old Mother West Wind
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Thornton W Burgess
First published in 1910, this classic has worked its magic on generations of children. This edition features the unique illustrations of the beloved illustrator Michael Hague. Full color.
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The Lais of Marie de France
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Glyn S. Burgess (Translator), Keith Busby (Translator)
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Smack
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Melvin Burgess
After being severely beaten by his father, 14-year-old Tar runs away from home and convinces his girlfriend, Gemma, to join him. They move into a squatter's residence occupied by two older radicals, but Gemma falls in with a group of heroin users who persuade her and Tar to move in with them. Soon Gemma and Tar are using heroin, and their lives ...
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Earthly Powers
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Anthony Burgess
Kenneth Toomey, an 81-year-old homosexual author of plays, novels, and stories, recounts a convoluted personal history of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on the life of his friend and relative, Don Carlo Campanati. Toomey is an iconoclastic, embittered old man who finally gains dubious celebrity and notoriety late in life. Campanati, on ...
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The Adventures of Grandfather Frog
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Thornton W Burgess
Chronicles the adventures of Grandfather Frog and his animal friends.
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Burgess Animal Book for Children
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Thornton W Burgess
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The cordial reception given the Burgess Bird Book for Children, together with numerous letters to the author asking for information on the habits and characteristics of many of the ...
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Dead Man in Deptford
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Burgess
Burgess wrote this fictionalized life of Christopher Marlowe to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Marlowe's death in 1593.
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Wellness Way of Life
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Gwen Robbins
The purpose of "A Wellness Way of Life" is to help you pursue your wellness potential by providing you with a road map for this exciting journey. The road map includes two essential components: (1) knowledge, and (2) tools for action. The authors have sorted through the array of confusing and sometimes contradictory health information to provide ...
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Wanting Seed
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Anthony Burgess
In the near future, Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where population control measures sanctioned by the government glorify homosexuality. Eventually, their world is transformed into a chaos of cannibalistic dinning-clubs, fantastic fertility rituals, and wars without anger. The novel maintains Burgess's ...
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The Adventures of Reddy Fox
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Thornton W Burgess
Despite his grandmother's efforts to teach him to behave, Reddy Fox always seems to get into trouble.
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Mother West Wind's Children
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Thornton W Burgess
Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
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Lightfoot the deer
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Thornton W Burgess
An unabridged republication of the 1921 classic in which Lightfoot encounters animal friends Peter Rabbit, Sammy Jay, Paddy the Beaver and others.
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Adventures of Peter Cottontail
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Thornton W Burgess
Unhappy with his name and his house, Peter Rabbit learns to appreciate himself and his world with the help of his friends.
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The Small Woman
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Alan Burgess
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The Adventures of Buster Bear
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Thornton W Burgess
The other animals are frightened when Buster Bear comes to live in the Green Forest, until he gets into trouble trying to steal blueberries from Farmer Brown's boy and they realize he is not very different from them.
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The Song of Roland
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Glyn S Burgess (Translator), Anonymous
At the heart of the poem is the account of the warrior Roland, Charlemagne's nephew and captain of his rearguard, who valiantly leads his men into battle against a vast pagan host and dies, defiant and triumphant, on a hill facing the enemy. The scene that recounts his death is one of the greatest in world literature. The oldest epic poem in ...
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The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat
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Thornton W Burgess
When the Smiling Pool and Laughing Brook dry up one day, Jerry Muskrat and the other forest animals set out to find the cause.
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The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk
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Thornton W Burgess
Relates how Jimmy Skunk repays Peter Rabbit for a practical joke and what happens when he and Unc' Billy Possum go hunting for eggs in Farmer Brown's henhouse.
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Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel
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Thornton W Burgess
The story of a squirrel and of his home, foods, friends and enemies in the forest.
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The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
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Thornton W Burgess
The adventures of a woodchuck and his friends Sammy Jay, Happy Jack Squirrel, Billy Possum, and other inhabitants of the forest surrounding Farmer Brown's land.
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Goops & How to Be Them
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Gelett Burgess
Classic tongue-in-cheek etiquette book for children demonstrates old-fashioned virtues: courtesy, generosity, neatness, more. 90 illus.
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The Adventures of Danny Meadow Mouse
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Thornton W Burgess
Danny Meadow Mouse, a timid but quick vole, plays hide-and-seek with his foe Reddy Fox and has other adventures with the animals of the Green Meadows.
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The Adventures of Prickly Porky
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Thornton W Burgess
A strange-looking animal with very long, sharp teeth comes from the North and makes new friends among the forest folk and meadow people.
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