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Hardcover:
9781905716784 | Crw Pub Ltd, March 1, 2012, cover price $7.95 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays.
9780712350327, titled "A Midsommer Nights Dreame: A Facsimile from the First Folio" | British Library Board, January 15, 2009, cover price $25.00 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: Shakespeare’s First Folio is a modern term applied by scholars to one of the world’s most famous books, Mr.
9780554723952, titled "A Midsummer Nights Dream" | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008), cover price $30.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
Paperback:
9780062066008 | Harperteen, October 18, 2011, cover price $8.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: The course of true love never did run smooth.
9780554723969, titled "A Midsummer Nights Dream" | Large print edition (Lightning Source Inc, August 30, 2008), cover price $22.75 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9781406586428 | Dodo Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $12.99 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream | About this edition: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
9789990112207 | 3 edition (Perfection Learning, January 31, 2004), cover price $0.02 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
9789990854718 | Reissue edition (Bantam Classic & Loveswept, December 1, 1990), cover price $0.02 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
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9781424213337, titled "Midsummer Night's Dream" | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $30.77 | also contains A Midsummer Night''s Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer-night's Dream
Reinforced:
9780606055925 | Demco Media, February 1, 1993, cover price $13.35 | About this edition: An illustrated, abridged verison of the Shakespeare comedy with background information and explanatory stage directions.
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9780192728005 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 8, 2009, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: If you love a good story, then look no further.
Library:
9780394913230 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1965, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An action-packed pirate story, with bloodcurdling deaths, terrifying ghosts and adventures galore on the high seas.
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An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
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9780374372774, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
Paperback:
9780374471217, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2001, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
9780440400578 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, July 1, 1988), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Harris and Bostock run into trouble when they devise a plan involving Harris' younger sister Adelaide
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9780394923222, titled "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris." | Random House Childrens Books, November 1, 1971, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will suckle an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two boys when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
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9780606228220 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $14.87 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
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9780613502504 | Turtleback Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $15.55 | About this edition: An experiment to see if a wolf will adopt an abandoned baby turns into a desperate situation for two schoolboys in early nineteenth-century England when the child is recovered by well-meaning passersby.
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Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
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9780374370824 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
9780745104485 | Large print edition (Chivers North Amer, June 1, 1991), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling.
9780844664552 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith.
Paperback:
9780374467623 | Sunburst, September 1, 2000, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
9780440480440 | Yearling Books, October 1, 1987, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A young pickpocket in eighteenth century London takes a document he cannot read from a man's pocket and a moment later sees the man murdered by two men who want the document
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9780394916415 | Random House Childrens Books, February 1, 1978, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: "Leon Garfield is unmatched for sheer, exciting storytelling.
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9780606216746 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
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9780613307420 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: Moments after he steals a document from a man's pocket, an illiterate young pickpocket in eighteenth-century London witnesses the man's murder by two men who want the document.
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A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
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9780374308278 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2000, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
9780394807133 | Random House Childrens Books, June 1, 1969, cover price $4.50 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
Paperback:
9780374406967 | Sunburst, September 1, 2000, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
Reinforced:
9780606216739 | Demco Media, July 1, 2001, cover price $14.87 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
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9780613302791 | Turtleback Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $15.65 | About this edition: A young apprentice in eighteenth-century London begins a strange adventure when he inadvertently becomes involved with a wanted criminal and a girl who is reputedly mad.
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9780395708934 | Houghton Mifflin, March 1, 1995, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Short-story adaptations of nine of Shakespeare's greatest plays include 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Measure for measure,' 'As you like it,' 'Cymbeline,' and 'King Richard the Third'
Paperback:
9780395891094 | Sandpiper, April 24, 2000, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Short-story adaptations of nine of Shakespeare's greatest plays include 'Antony and Cleopatra,' 'Measure for measure,' 'As you like it,' 'Cymbeline,' and 'King Richard the Third'
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9780395563977 | Houghton Mifflin, January 1, 1991, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
9781850891055 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 1986), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
Paperback:
9780395861400 | Sandpiper, March 30, 1998, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An acclaimed author has rewritten twelve of Shakespeare's plays in narrative form, retaining much of the original language, and thus the flavor of the bard's dramas.
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9780671866464 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 1994, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: After being captured by pirates and sold as a slave, a forgetful young Englishman faces a long imprisonment because he can't remember where the ransom note should be sent
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An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions
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9780606055932 | Demco Media, February 1, 1993, cover price $13.35 | About this edition: An illustrated, abridged version of the Shakespeare tragedy with background information and explanatory stage directions
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Product Description: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style. George Treet is happy with his life as part of a family of travelling actors. But George's world turns upside down when he discovers that Mr Treet is not his real father, and that he must go and live with his real family...read more
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9780844664521 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style.
9780582186606, titled "Devil in the Fog" | Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd, June 1, 1971, cover price $3.60 | About this edition: A dramatic and eerie story of lost identity and family secrets, told in Leon Garfield's memorable and distinctive style.
Paperback:
9780440400950 | Yearling Books, October 1, 1988, cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Fourteen-year-old George's family of traveling actors inform him that he is actually the son of a dying, wealthy man and send him to stay with his real family, a group of mean, sickly, even murderous people.
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Nick knows that his sister, Jubilee, must learn to read and write before she can become independent and make it in London, so he enrolls them both, in the famous Blewcoat charity school
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9780385297776 | Delacorte Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An opportune meeting with a pickpocket and a pupil from a charity school sets events in motion that drastically and irrevocably change the lives of an orphaned brother and sister existing by their wits in the streets of London.
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Abigail helps King Nebuchadnezzar to overcome his madness and learn a lesson about the importance of God
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9780688041069 | William Morrow & Co, November 1, 1988, cover price $3.98 | About this edition: A little girl named Abigail finds mad King Nebuchadnezzar eating the flowers in her garden and helps him return to his palace and to God.
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9780745105888 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, October 1, 1987), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Secrets whispered up a chimney, a golden locket with a broken chain, murder in the streets of London, and suddenly young Barnacle is plunged into a terrifying mystery.
Paperback:
9780140320701, titled "The December Rose" | Reissue edition (Viking Childrens Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: In Victorian London, a chimney sweep's assistant finds himself pursued by the sinister Inspector Creaker.
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Unsettling words from his father before he dies set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.
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9780385282949 | Doubleday, October 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Unsettling words from his dying father set twelve-year-old William on a mission to eighteenth-century London where, in the course of searching for his father's mysterious business partner John Diamond, he encounters an odd assortment of characters, some of whom seem determined to kill him.
Paperback:
9780440401025 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, November 1, 1988), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: In eighteenth-century England, William Jones, constantly plagued with guilt feelings over something his father did many years ago and hoping to redress the situation, sets out for London in search of a man named Alfred Diamond
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Bostock's deal with Harris allowing Harris to use his father's powerful telescope in exchange for his expert advice on courting women triggers a comedy of errors that ultimately involves the entire town
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9780440400707 | Reprint edition (Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1988), cover price $3.25 | About this edition: Bostock's deal with Harris allowing Harris to use his father's powerful telescope in exchange for his expert advice on courting women triggers a comedy of errors that ultimately involves the entire town
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Though he dreams of going to sea, fourteen-year-old Peter is not entirely displeased to be apprenticed to a locksmith, especially as it means getting away from his 'saintly' twin; but when the ghost of a former apprentice and a murder put him in grave danger, it is only his despised brother who is able to save him.Fourteen-year-old Peter Gannet finds his desire to be a sailor closely linked to his twin brother Paul and a mysterious set of ships-in-a-bottle
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9780385298179 | Doubleday, September 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Though he dreams of going to sea, fourteen-year-old Peter is not entirely displeased to be apprenticed to a locksmith, especially as it means getting away from his 'saintly' twin; but when the ghost of a former apprentice and a murder put him in grave danger, it is only his despised brother who is able to save him.
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9780575043947 | Victor Gollancz, June 1, 1988, cover price $6.95
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A dozen tales of apprentices in eighteenth-century England portray young boys placed in service for seven years, small wages, and chancy reward and reveal Hogarthian and Dickensian corners of their lives
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9780140315950 | Reprint edition (Viking Childrens Books, March 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A dozen tales of apprentices in eighteenth-century England portray young boys placed in service for seven years, small wages, and chancy reward and reveal Hogarthian and Dickensian corners of their lives
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9780670816521 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1987, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Partridge becomes guilt-stricken when he discovers his wish for his employer's death might have come true
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The story of Jack, a young man who embarks on an unexpected journey to find his bride
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9780192797797 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 25, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The story of Jack, a young man who embarks on an unexpected journey to find his bride
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Product Description: Orphaned at birth and adopted by a coachman and his wife, a young man struggles to discover his origins.
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9780140309614 | Reprint edition (Viking Childrens Books, February 1, 1985), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Orphaned at birth and adopted by a coachman and his wife, a young man struggles to discover his origins.
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Two orphans are lured to an immense mansion by a mysterious dog where, because of their compassion, hard work, patience, and kindness, they make the transformation from rags to riches.
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9780385179621 | Doubleday, October 1, 1983, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: Jackson and Lillipolly, two kindhearted orphans from the London slums, are led by a strange dog to a great mansion where their compassion and honesty impress an old man who decides to adopt them
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9780385179638 | Doubleday, October 1, 1983, cover price $11.54 | About this edition: Jackson and Lillipolly, two kindhearted orphans from the London slums, are led by a strange dog to a great mansion where their compassion and honesty impress an old man who decides to adopt them
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Samuel, a kitchen-boy in Babylon, serves Belshazzar, the King, and his guests at the feast during which God delivers a message to Belshazzar which is interpreted by Judge Daniel.
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9780688021122 | William Morrow & Co, August 1, 1983, cover price $10.25 | About this edition: Belshazzar, King of Babylon, sends for his wise men to explain what has miraculously been written on his wall, but only Judge Daniel can read its warning
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9780816431687 | Book Sales, January 1, 1983, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: Examines the achievements of the artists, architects, scientists, musicians, and writers of eighteenth century
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Against a background of the building of the Tower of Babel, a boy tries to train a stray dog--and God watches over all.
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9780688012885 | Olympic Marketing Corp, September 1, 1982, cover price $4.98 | About this edition: Against a background of the building of the Tower of Babel, a boy tries to train a stray dog--and God watches over all.
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