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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Smoke and Steel
Carl Sandburg
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R879
Discovery Miles 8 790
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Rootabaga Stories (Hardcover)
Carl Sandburg; Illustrated by Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
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R502
Discovery Miles 5 020
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Carl Sandburg had three daughters and he loved telling them
irrepressible, zany tales. He disliked the European fairy stories
that involved kings and princesses and thought American tales
should be more relevant to the world around his children, but of
course made rather fantastic. So the stories are populated with
trains on zig-zag tracks, skyscrapers, animals wearing bibs, corn
fairies, not to mention the Village of Cream Puffs which floats in
the wind. They have become firm favourites for generations of
children. This edition of Rootabaga Stories features the original
black and white illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Gimme the Ax decided to let his children name themselves.
"The first words they speak as soon as they learn to make words
shall be their names," he said. "They shall name themselves."
When the first boy came to the house of Gimme the Ax, he was
named Please Gimme. When the first girl came she was named Ax Me No
Questions.
And both of the children had the shadows of valleys by night in
their eyes and the lights of early morning, when the sun is coming
up, on their foreheads.
And the hair on top of their heads was a dark wild grass. And
they loved to turn the doorknobs, open the doors, and run out to
have the wind comb their hair and touch their eyes and put its six
soft fingers on their foreheads.
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Twenty-five stories in a whimsical Rootabaga vein -- from
beloved American poet Carl Sandburg.
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Poems for the People (Paperback)
Carl Sandburg; Edited by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick; Introduction by George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick
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R313
Discovery Miles 3 130
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In the winter of 1914, Carl Sandburg, then a reporter at The Day
Book in Chicago, submitted several of his poems to Harriet Monroe's
Poetry magazine. The title poem began: "Hog Butcher for the World,
/ Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat..." Monroe at first hesitated to
accept the poems because of "their unorthodox form and their range
from brutality to misty lyricism." But she took a deep breath and
printed them. In the decade that followed, Sandburg came quickly to
national prominence. In Poems for the People, George and Wilene
Hendrick, Sandburg's most accomplished interpreters, have selected
seventy-three poems from his early years in Chicago, almost all of
them never before in print. Included are poems of social protest,
gentle ruminations, and poems about teeming Chicago life. Sandburg
may have regarded them as too radical for the time; others may have
been set aside and never retrieved. This unearthed treasure,
together with the Hendrick's biographical introduction and
commentary on the poems, mark Poems for the People as a major
publishing event.
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Incidentals
Carl Sandburg
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R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Discover the power of poetry in this simple, modern introduction to
Carl Sandburg, featuring an ode to autumn and the joys of
HalloweenIn this beautifully illustrated adaptation of a beloved
Carl Sandburg poem, children delight in the sensory and spooky
arrival of autumn.
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Rootabaga Stories (Paperback)
Carl Sandburg; Illustrated by Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham
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R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) is best known for his poetry (Chicago
Poems, Smoke and Steel, and Good Morning, America), his books for
children, including Rootabaga Country and Potato Face, and his
six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
Illinois author devoted his life to writing, lecturing, reading
from his own works, and collecting and singing folk songs. Â
Sandburg often incorporated proverbs, riddles, aphorisms, and
vernacular wisdom in lectures, poetry, children’s stories, and in
his novel Remembrance Rock. Believing that silliness and fun helped
preserve sanity and balance, he put together a collection of
fanciful anecdotes - alive with alliteration - for his own
amusement. Now, more than twenty years after his death, the
publication of Fables, Foibles, and Foobles truly reveals, for
perhaps the first time, the playful spirit of this great American
poet. Â George Hendrick has compiled the best of these
never-before-published nonsensical pieces, which include Flies,
Fleas, Flinyons, Flicks, Flooches, Flacks, Flatches, and assorted
F-friends deep in dialogue about books and reading; the fascinating
worlds of the curious hoomadooms, hongdorshes, and onkadonks;
fables to rival Thurber; jokes about every conceivable type of nut;
and cameo appearances by Hank the Honk and Flitty the Wid, among
others. Robert Harvey’s whimsical drawings, scattered throughout
the book, illuminate this charming cast of characters. Â
1916. Sandburg, Pulitzer Prize winning poet, was virtually unknown
to the literary world when, in 1914, a group of his poems appeared
in the nationally circulated Poetry magazine. His work found beauty
and glory in the simple America that surrounded him: the farms,
industry, landscape, culture, and most importantly, the American
people. Chicago Poems was Sandburg's first published book of poems.
Among the dozens of poems in this collection are such well-known
verses as Chicago, Fog, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, Who Am I?
and Under the Harvest Moon as well as many others. See other titles
by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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