Books with author William Duncan

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Vol. 1I profess to give my readers a novel. That is, something new. And I will give them something new; notwithstanding we are truly told that there is no thing new under the sun - and it might be added, neither is the sun new.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.

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), Rabbit's Tail is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. This set of nine stories contain a variety of language and illustration styles, reflecting the myths, legends, folk tales and fairy stories of the many different cultures from which they were taken. Rabbit once had a lovely long tail! This is the story of how he lost it. Rabbit's Tail, written by Duncan Williamson and Linda Williamson, is a folk tale from Scotland in the tradition of Aesop's Fables. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Excerpt from Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Vol. 1I profess to give my readers a novel. That is, something new. And I will give them something new; notwithstanding we are truly told that there is no thing new under the sun - and it might be added, neither is the sun new.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 Fifteen Years Old: Being Letters, Notes and Manuscripts Left Behind by William Duncan Saunders, and Picked Up by His Friends G. C. R. And A. WThe publication has been made with no grandiose idea that the world might thereby see how fine a man was in the making when, in the middle of his freshman year at Hamilton, his life was cut short. For we doubt if strangers, in turning these pages, would find that out. We doubt if this haphazard and imperfect record even faintly suggests how rich he was in humor and appreciation, how gallant was his spirit, how gentle his heart, how sunlit he was. We, who watched him through his last year, knew that he possessed, by a kind of divination, the wisdom for which most of us have to trudge to the end of the world and look over the wall. We had never seen anyone who stood so eager at the threshold of life. We had never found anyone who seemed so clearly destined to enrich and enhance it. But it is to be doubted if this chance chronicle of his last year tells half that story.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.