Product Description: Johanna Spyri (1827-1901) was an author of children's stories. Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels...read more

Product Description: Johanna Spyri's first book -- entitled A Leaf on Vrony's Grave -- was published in 1871. A year later she published a great pile of tales for both adults and children, among them the tale of Heidi that became an instant and enduring success...read more

The legendary silent-film actress offers a candid view of her life, career, art, and the people with whom she lived and worked (view table of contents)

Product Description: Johanna Spyri was a Swiss author best known for children's stories, and her most famous work is probably Heidi, about a young orphaned girl who has to live in the Alps. Heidi remains one of literature's best selling books.

Product Description: One of the greatest cinema comics of all times, W.C. Field's work is a model for writers and performers. Each script is a masterpiece of comic writing. This is a selection of three screenplays of his films, "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break", "Tillie and Gus" and "The Bank Dick"...read more

Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

It was early in the month of March. The dark blue vault of heaven lay over mountain and valley, swept free from clouds by the keen northern blast as it blew across the hills, swaying the big trees hither and thither as if they were bulrushes, and now and then tearing off huge branches which fell crashing to the ground. Other and sadder victims were sacrificed to this fierce north wind. Human beings as well as inanimate objects fell before him. He struck down with his mighty arm, not only the old and feeble, but the young and strong; just as he swept away the clouds, hurrying them across the skies, beyond the horizon line, away out of sight. Sometimes in one day, a cruel malady would seize one occupant out of each one of the three or four little villages clustered on the hillside. A sharp pain attacked the lungs, and after a brief illness the resistless disease bore away the sufferer to the silent grave.