Pauline Baynes
21) The tale of Troy
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English
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Step back into the Heroic Age with the story of Helen and the judgment of Paris: of the gathering of the heroes and the seige of Troy; of Achilles and his vulnerable heel. And join Odysseus, the last of the heroes - famous for his wisdom and cunning - on his thrilling adventures as he makes the long journey home to Greece.
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(Clive Staples),Chronicles of Narnia volume 1
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Polish
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Four English school children enter the magic land of Narnia through the back of a wardrobe and assist Aslan, the golden lion, in defeating the White Witch who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
26) The Moses basket
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A simple retelling of how Moses, who grew to lead the Hebrews out of captivity in Egypt, was saved when his mother and sister set him adrift in a water-tight basket where Pharaoh's daughter would find him.
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Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind.
Pauline Baynes’s jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both this final voyage...
Pauline Baynes’s jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both this final voyage...
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A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings. What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into this charming short story, so named by Tolkien to suggest an early work by P.G. Wodehouse. Composed almost a decade after The Lord of the Rings, and when his lifelong occupation with the 'Silmarillion' was...
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Opowieści z Narnii volume 3
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Polish
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Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.