Product Description: From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war’s most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from letters, memoirs, reports, and testimonies...read more

A celebration of the dog features prose, poetry, artwork, and photographs by such figures as Napoleon, Admiral Byrd, President Harding, London, Kipling, Tennyson, Poe, Wordsworth, Twain, Stevenson, and others. Original.

Gathers artwork, poems, and selections from fiction and nonfiction about cats and their characteristics, behavior, folklore, and history

Product Description:  The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around...read more

A diverse selection of remarkable talent, from Anne Rice and Elizabeth Peters to Bram Stoker and Agatha Christie, appears in a collection of stories about the Mummy--its curse, reanimation, revenge, and the other cast of characters associated with ancient Egypt and its pyramids. Original. (view table of contents)

Thirty-six tales from around the world focus on cats and include works by Washington Irving, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Rudyard Kipling

A collection of twenty-five supernatural tales of cats features the writings of such authors as Bram Stoker, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Lilian Jackson Braun, Washington Irving, Algernon Blackwood, and Christopher Fahy.

This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their readers.

An eclectic collection of vampire tales includes poems, stories, and song lyrics from famous authors and composers, such as Shakespeare, Sting, Edgar Allen Poe, Anne Rice, Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas Mallory, Goethe, and Edith Wharton. Original. (view table of contents)

Collects curious tales from American history, including animal prosecutions and strange medical remedies (view table of contents)