Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by E. Nesbit
Format: Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781421809250
Hardcover|9781421809250
✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$29.70
List Price: $27.95
🚚
See all 3 offers from $29.70 FREE standard delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Overview
The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed "the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned." Shakespeare instructed by delighting. His plays alone (leaving mere science out of the question), contain more actual wisdom than the whole body of English learning. He is the teacher of all good - pity, generosity, true courage, love. His bright wit is cut out "into little stars." His solid masses of knowledge are meted out in morsels and proverbs, and thus distributed, there is scarcely a corner of the English-speaking world to-day which he does not illuminate, or a cottage which he does not enrich. His bounty is like the sea, which, though often unacknowledged, is everywhere felt. As his friend, Ben Jonson, wrote of him, "He was not of an age but for all time." He ever kept the highroad of human life whereon all travel. He did not pick out by-paths of feeling and sentiment. In his creations we have no moral highwaymen, sentimental thieves, interesting villains, and amiable, elegant adventuresses - no delicate entanglements of situation, in which the grossest images are presented to the mind disguised under the superficial attraction of style and sentiment.
| ISBN-13 | 9781421809250 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1421809257 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.50 x 0.69 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $27.95 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 248 pages |
| Publisher | 1st World Library - Literary Society |
| Published On | 2005-10-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
✨ Brand New
Seller details
Alibris
Sparks, NV, USA
Print on demand Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 248 p. Intended for a juvenile a...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Brand New
Seller details
Paperbackshop
Bensenville, IL, USA
New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot of...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026