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The children's illustrated Bible
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Selina Hastings
This new edition for children features new illustrations and photographs on every page. Included are more than 100 of the best-loved stories from both the Old and New Testaments and the pictorial maps show where the main events took place.
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Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady
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Winner of the 1985 Kate Greenaway Medal.
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Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. With the publication of her novels, above all "The Pursuit of Love", "Love in a Cold Climate" and "The Blessing", she became a huge bestseller and a household name. An inveterate writer of letters, she wrote almost daily ...
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Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
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Selina Hastings
One of the foremost writers of our times, Evelyn Waugh was also one of its most extraordinary eccentrics. Here in intimate detail are the collapse of Waugh's first marriage and his conversion to the Catholic Church, his second marriage and the social milieu satirized in such classics as Brideshead Revisited and A Handful of Dust. Photos.
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Peter and the wolf
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Selina Hastings, Reg Cartwright
First performed at the Children's Theatre in Moscow in 1936, this orchestral tale has become a favorite of children around the world. Selina Hastings retells the story simply and directly--just right for young children. Full-color illustrations.
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Rosamond Lehmann
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Selina Hastings
The life of Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. She enjoyed an idyllic childhood in the Thames valley, and she was much pursued while at Cambridge, but an early marriage to Leslie Runciman was wretchedly unhappy. The phenomenal success of her shocking, first novel, Dusty Answer gave ...
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The Children's Illustrated Bible
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DK Publishing, Selina Hastings (Retold by), Eric Thomas (Illustrator)
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A Life of Contrasts: the Autobiography
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Diana; Hastings Mitford, Selina
An autobiography of Diana Mitford describing how it came about that both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler adored her, and Evelyn Waugh and Oswald Mosley fell in love with her.
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Nancy Mitford : a biography
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Nancy Mitford was witty, intelligent, often acerbic, a great tease and an acute observer of upper-class English idiosyncrasies. She became a best-selling author and a household name with the publication of "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". Selina Hastings captures equally the gaiety and frivolity and the unhappy truth of Nancy ...
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The Canterbury Tales
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Selina Hastings, Geoffrey Chaucer, Reg Cartwright (Illustrator)
The "Canterbury Tales" were originally planned to include over 100 stories, but Chaucer completed only 22. The device of using a pilgrimage as a setting for the telling of tales was not uncommon--medieval pilgrims traditionally told stories to liven up the long trek--but Chaucer's version is infinitely more sophisticated, matching the teller and ...
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Reynard the fox
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Selina Hastings, Graham Percy
No bird is safe from Reynard's sharp teeth, and King Lion himself is no match for his even sharper wits. But Reynard's wicked ways have brought him powerful enemies. Despite one outrageous trick after another, it looks as if the Fox's day of reckoning is at hand. Scorned by all and brought to the very foot of the gallows, how can this charming red ...
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The Firebird
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Selina Hastings
A dynamic tale, made famous by Igor Stravinsky's ballet with music, was first collected by the nineteenth-century folklorist A.N. Afanasyev. It tells how a young huntsman, finding by accident a feather of the fabulous Firebird, is instructed by the King to capture the bird itself. The task is a formidable one and the huntsman despairs; it is his ...
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The Birth of Jesus
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Selena Hastings, Selina Hastings (Adapted by)
Prepared in consultation with educators, scholars and religious advisers, this book includes well-loved stories written in a clear, lively language. Color photos of the plants, animals, people, and places of the Bible set the stories in context.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Selina Hastings
Sir Gawain is perhaps the most famous of all the legendary knights of King Arthur's Round Table. In this exciting story, his honour and bravery are put to the test when challenged by the mighty Green Knight.
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David & Goliath
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Selena Hastings, Selina Hastings
Selected well-loved stories are retold for children. Color photos and illustrations throughout helps put the stories in context.
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The man who wanted to live forever
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A man who wants to live forever manages to hold out for several hundred years, but Death eventually tricks him into going away with him.
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The Singing Ringing Tree
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Selina Hastings
A prince seeks the Singing Ringing Tree to please a vain and selfish princess so she will marry him, but the quest is dangerous and results in great misery for both before true love puts everything to rights.
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Noah's Ark
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Selena Hastings, Selina Hastings
With color photos and illustrations throughout, this book of stories was prepared in consultation with educators, scholars and religious advisers.
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The Miracles of Jesus
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Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Selina Hastings
With full-color illustrations and photos throughout, this book teaches children about the works of Jesus, as it entertains them.
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Evelyn Waugh
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Selina Hastings
This biography of Evelyn Waugh, written with the full co-operation of the family and making use of a mass of unpublished letters and diaries, traces the remarkable career of a writer who, though respected, was always controversial and undoubtedly eccentric. In particular, it sheds new light on his difficult relationship with his father, his ...
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Noah's Ark : and other Bible stories
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Selina Hastings
One in a series of illustrated Bible stories, this title tells the story of Noah's Ark. To help explain the stories and set them in their historical and geographical context, background information is included, together with photographs and maps of places mentioned.
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The birth of Jesus : and other Bible stories
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One in a series of illustrated Bible stories, this title tells the story of the birth of Jesus. To help explain the stories and set them in their historical and geographical context, background information is included, together with photographs and maps of places mentioned.
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Sir Gawain & the Loathly Lady - Sir Gawain y La Abominable Dama
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Selina Hastings, Juan Wijingaard
A prince must marry a beautiful maiden who has been turned into a monster, until he can answer a question that will save her.
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David & Goliath : and other Bible stories
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One in a series of illustrated Bible stories, this title tells the story of David and Goliath. To help explain the stories and set them in their historical and geographical context, background information is included, together with photographs and maps of places mentioned.
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The miracles of Jesus : and other Bible stories
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One in a series of illustrated Bible stories, this title tells the story of the miracles of Jesus. To help explain the stories and set them in their historical and geographical context, background information is included, together with photographs and maps of places mentioned.
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