Bedtime stories for stressed out adults : tales to soothe tired souls

Book 2018

The literary equivalent to a comforting bath before bed, this beautiful anthology of short tales and poems will calm and restore an anxious mind before sleep. A good night's sleep is fundamental to our well being and our health, yet in our busy world, dominated by screens, and juggling the demands of home and work, our sleep is often poor and overlooked. Now is the time to stop a while, and be reminded that while memories of bedtime stories as ch...

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ISBN:

9781473695917
9781473695900
1473695910
1473695902

Description:

262 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:

Included index

Contents:

Introduction
The gift of the Magi / O. Henry
The mouse / Saki
East of the sun, west of the moon / Andrew Lang
Wanderer's night song / Goeth
The selfish giant / Oscar Wilde
A pair of silk stockings / Kate Chopin
The aunt and Amabel / E. Nesbit
Moon song / Mildred Plew Meigs
The wind in the willows / Kenneth Grahame
A portrait / Guy de Maupassant
The golden windows / Laura E. Richards
To sleep / William Wordsworth
The diary of a nobody / George and Weedon Grossmith
The drwing of the sowrd / Andrew Lang
The tiredness of Rosabel / Katherine Mansfield
Clouds / Christina Rossetti
The beauties / Anton Chekhov
Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll
Kew Gardens / Virginia Woolf
The legend of O'Donoghue / T. Crofton Croker
Wynken, Blynken and Nod / Eugine Field
Xingu / Edith Wharton
Heidi / Johanna Spyri
From 'Baxxahanalia / Matthew AZrnold
Three questions / Leo Tolstoy
Far away and long ago / W. H. Hudson
Anne of Green Gables / L. M. Montgomery
Night / William Blake
'Meadow thoughts' / Richard Jefferies / Glorie de Dijon / D. H. Lawrence
The secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett
The spinner and the monks / D. H. Lawrence
From 'Amanda' / Nathaniel Hookes

Control Number:

2708933

Other Authors:

Mangan, Lucy, writer of introduction

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