Books with author Juliana Horatia Ewing

Excerpt from The Brownies: And Other TalesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Mary's Meadow, Snap-Dragons, Dandelion Clocks: And Other StoriesHe is the nicest dog I know. He looks very sav age, but he is only very funny. His lower jaw sticks out, which makes him grin, and some people think he is gnashing his teeth with rage. We think it looks as if he were laughing - like Mother Hubbard's dog, when she brought home his coffin, and he wasn't dead - but it really is only the Shape of his jaw. I loved Saxon the first day I saw him, and he likes me.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from We and the World: A Book for Boys "All these common features of English landscape evince a calm and settled security, and hereditary transmission of home-bred virtues and local attachments, that speak deeply and touchingly for the moral character of the nation." Washington Irving's Sketch book. It was a great saying of my poor mother's especially it my father had been out of spirits about the crops, or the rise in wages, or our prospects, and had thought better of it again, and showed her the bright side of things, "Well, my dear, I'm sure we've much to be thankful for." Which they had, and especially, I often think, for the fact that I was not the eldest son. I gave them more trouble than I can think of with a comfortable conscience as it was; but they had Jem to tread in my father's shoes, and he was a good son to them - God bless him for it! I can remember hearing my father say - "It's bad enough to have Jack with his nose in a book, and his head in the glass falling: but if Jem had been a lad of whims and fancies, I think it would have broken my poor old heart."

In an "autobiography", Margery describes the many trials and joys of growing up in India and England in the late 1800's. While she becomes an orphan at an early age, her close friend Eleanor proves steady support as she matures from a child to a young lady. She and her adoptive older sister turn to everything with enthusiasm and grace, and learning dressmaking is neither more nor less valued than learning Italian so they can read Dante, or collecting natural history specimens. Work first published in 1873/74, by Juliana Horatia Ewing the prolific author of children's stories. Her tales, which have hardly been excelled in sympathetic insight into child life, still enjoy undiminished popularity. Juliana Horatia Ewing - sometimes also styled Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, or just "Mrs. Ewing" - is credited by Roger Lancelyn Green as being the author of the the "first outstanding child-novels" in English literature.

"There lingers over some people whom we know a nameless charm," wrote an early admirer of these stories. A charm like this breathes over the stories which Mrs. Ewing has left as an inheritance for English children, and their elders also for all time." This charm lingers more powerfully over Lob than over any of Mrs. Ewing's books, and wafts us back into a delectable past that recalls Cranford. It is the story of a foundling, and of a Brownie -- of the household elf Lob -- woven together very charmingly in its period setting, and its cleverly drawn characters and plot are compelling and irresistible. There is enough mystery to keep us guessing, but the strength of the story lies in the telling, and the picture it presents of the vanished world of a little country place of a hundred years ago. The Story Of A Short Life was illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.

Old-Fashioned Fairy TalesBy. Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty GOOD LUCK IS BETTER THAN GOLD.There was once upon a time a child who had Good Luck for his godfather."I am not Fortune," said Good Luck to the parents; "I have no gifts to bestow, but whenever he needs help I will be at hand.""Nothing could be better," said the old couple. They were delighted. But what pleases the father often fails to satisfy the son: moreover, every man thinks that he deserves just a little more than he has got,and does not reckon it to the purpose if his father had less......Read More? Please Download Now Easily and Low Prices!