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Horrified at the thought of caring for talkative, ten-year-old Rebecca, the spinster aunts nevertheless spend seven difficult years raising their niece, rewarding years for all three inhabitants of the little brick house in a small New England town.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding...
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.
It's a lazy Mississippi River town, a place where a boy can learn magical cures for warts, turn a fence-painting job into a leisurely con game, get lost in a cave, escape to an island, or attend his own funeral. It's a time when hooky is punished with a simple swatting and pockets bulge with firecrackers and dead rats; a time...
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Deep in the pages of the Jungle Book romps a boy raised by wolves, a mongoose who raises up against a deadly cobra, & a young seal who raises the question: What's out there in the great wide world? Rudyard Kipling's enduring collection of adventurous tales are written with warmth, wit, & a gentle wisdom for readers of all ages.