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Johann Peter Hebel

Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) was one of the greatest story-tellers in the history of German literature. The anecdotes and curiosities collected here have endeared him to generations of readers in Germany and have won him many distinguished admirers further afield, including Tolstoy and Kafka, who habitually carried a copy of Hebel stories in his pocket and referred to one of them - 'Unexpected Reunion' - as 'the most wonderful story in the world'. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein recommended The Treasure Chest to his pupils when he worked as a schoolteacher, and later read from it to his friends. First issued in collected form in 1811, Hebel's stories were originally published in a popular almanach he edited for a wide and unsophisticated readership. They cover a broad spectrum of human experience with heroes ranging from Napoleon and the enlightened Austrian Emperor Joseph, to common soldiers, working men and women, servants and petty criminals. Hebel was a robust, humorous, humane and eminently sane personality whose sympathies lay with the little man and woman, whilst always being ready to recognize justice and generosity in those in power and authority. He wrote in a style close to ordinary speech and his voice carries without effort over the intervening years.

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Paul Stickland

Pop-up pictures depict several trucks engaged in various activities such as pouring sand, getting stuck in traffic, and being towed.

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Frances K. Judd [pseudonym

"Here is your pay." Kay is dumbfounded as she watches her host, Alice Janey, give a mysterious witchlike woman some money. Kay later learns that Nanna is Miss Janey's clairvoyant and that Nan revealed the location of Miss Janey's missing luggage. Miss Janey has full confidence in Nanna, since her luggage was indeed found in the exact location described by Nanna, but Kay remains suspicious. First, Nanna owns the house in which the luggage is found, and second, the valuable contents of the luggage are missing when the luggage is recovered. Kay believes that Nanna is scheming against Miss Janey, but proving it to Miss Janey will be difficult. How Kay learns the truth about Nanna and helps Miss Janey with an important chemical experiment makes for a thrilling story.

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translated [from the Spanish] by Langston Hughes

The first Nobel Prize in literature to be awarded to a Latin American writer went to the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Famous and beloved during her lifetime all over Latin America and in Europe, Mistral has never been known in North America as she deserves to be. The reputation of her more flamboyant and accessible friend and countryman Pablo Neruda has overshadowed hers, and she has been officially sentimentalized into a "poetess" of children and motherhood. Translations, and even selections of her work in Spanish, have tended to underplay the darkness, the strangeness, and the raging intensity of her poems of grief and pain, the yearning power of her evocations of the Chilean landscape, the stark music of her Round Dances, the visionary splendor of her Hymns of America.