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Jane Austen's first novel--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature....

Louisa Moo Alcott stands out among the herd. While others are lazing around and grazing on grass, Louisa is busy writing, creating, and publishing best-selling books. She is, indeed, a talented, unique, and famous cow loved deeply by her fellow animals.Through her writing, Louisa helps the cows see other worlds and learn new things. She shows how reading is so important and opens their eyes without leaving their chair.A rhyming picture book for children,...

"Behind the innocent face of Victorian fairy tales such as Through the Looking Glass or Mopsa the Fairy lurks the spectre of an intense nineteenth-century debate about the very nature - and ownership - of childhood. In the engagingly written Ventures into Childland, U.C. Knoepflmacher illuminates this debate. Offering brilliant rereadings of classics from the "Golden Age of Children's Literature" as well as literature commonly considered "grown-up,"...