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Arthur finds everything about Halloween scary: his little sister's costume, even his morning snack! But he's most afraid of the big spooky house on the corner where no one wants to go trick-or-treating. His fears are eventually soothed once Arthur realizes things don't always turn out the way you imagine.

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My 4 year old son loves this!
My son is really into the Arthur books and he especially likes the ones that create suspense.This book does the job great - not scarey, just suspenseful for about 2 pages, then it ends on a great note. I highly recommend this book to encourage the joy of reading.A similar book is "Arthur's First Sleepover".

Good for young children to overcome their fear of Halloween!
Arthur the Aardvark is having trouble falling asleep as it is the night before Halloween and his house is decorated to look incredibly spooky.

When he finally does fall alseep and wakes up the next morning,things get even worse when his annoying little sister D.W scares him as she is dressed in her Halloween costume ready to go trick or treating.

Arthur feels embarrassed and irritatedthat he has to take D.W trick or treating with him because he'll be "the only one who has to drag my baby sister along".

When Arthur,his friends and D.W eventually go trick or treating,they are all scared to go into 'the Witch's House'.

But D.W breaks her candy bag,Arthur has to pick it up,and when he turns round D.W has gone into the Witch's House...meaning Arthur will have to go in after her!

Arthur's friends worry what has happened to them...'Maybe the Witch put them into an oven just like Hansel and Gretel,maybe she's using them for horrible scientific experiments or maybe she's locked them in a cellar to starve'...

Arthur's Halloween is a really good book to read to young children who are scared of Halloween.

It features colourful illustration and shows Arthur back when he looked more like an aardvark and less like the TV version we all know so well today!

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i ordered these from 5 different sellers and all had to return my money cause item not available. AMAZON U NEED TO UPDATE WHATS AVAILABLE I was very dissapointed.

Trick or Treat "Treat"
My class loves Arthur!'Arthur's Halloween' was a real treat for them!!

Arthur's Halloween
Arthur's Halloween is about Arthur who is afraid of pretty much everything. When Halloween comes, he is told he has to take his sister. When trick or treating the two get lost behind and D.W. goes in the so-called Witch House, and Arthur has to go get her. The book teaches that you shouldn't judge somebody by what other people tell you. This book is good for kids 4-8. I thought it was an ok book. ... Read more

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1910. One of the principal threads of Mr. Walcott's clever story, The Open Door, corresponds remarkably with the theft, and remarkable recovery of a famous painting by Millet, valued at ten thousand dollars, from a museum in San Francisco. The scene of the novel is also set in San Francisco, but since the manuscript was submitted well before the theft, Mr. Walcott cannot be accused of imitating the facts. This is a really good detective story; goodness in the case of a detective story denoting a striking plot, a baffling mystery and interest that grows more intense with each succeeding chapter. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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1910. One of the principal threads of Mr. Walcott's clever story, The Open Door, corresponds remarkably with the theft, and remarkable recovery of a famous painting by Millet, valued at ten thousand dollars, from a museum in San Francisco. The scene of the novel is also set in San Francisco, but since the manuscript was submitted well before the theft, Mr. Walcott cannot be accused of imitating the facts. This is a really good detective story; goodness in the case of a detective story denoting a striking plot, a baffling mystery and interest that grows more intense with each succeeding chapter. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Comparative Economic Studies, published by Thomson Gale on September 1, 2006. The length of the article is 9389 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Nonstandard forms and measures of employment and unemployment in transition: a comparative study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia.
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A comprehensive reference to bronchial asthma, from the basic mechanisms and diagnostics, to therapeutics and patient management. Revised and updated, this text includes new material on the latest developments in molecular biology and immunology. ... Read more

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Back in print: an early novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety. When her younger sister Elspeth comes to live with Margaret and her husband, Alec, on their Iowa farm, Margaret finds her generous spirit tested as a friendship developes between Alec and Elspeth. ... Read more

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Rembering Laughter
This was a thought provoking and interesting book that provided insights to human character.Loved it.

Very fine debut novel
Wallace Stegner's first novel, short, direct, and powerfully written. Set on a midwestern farm around the turn of the twentieth century, fun-loving Alec is married to prim and proper Margaret. After Margaret's younger sister Elspeth comes to live with them, she and Alec have an affair, with devastating consequences for the three. A son, Malcolm, is born out of the affair, who is raised thinking Alec is his uncle and Margaret his aunt. He finally learns the truth at novel's end, which is the weakest section of the book: it all transpires too quickly which diminishes the force of the revelation. But Stegner's writing is strong and vigorous; he is especially good at portraying Alec's wit and playfulness through his use of exaggerations and folkloric "whoppers." The icy cold relationship between Margaret and Elspeth (reminiscent to me of that between the characters in Edith Wharton's ETHAN FROME), is truly destructive and tragic. A fine debut achievement.

Stegner's genesis
About five years ago I stumbled onto Wallace Stegner, and I haven't been able to leave him behind. I just got around to reading _Remembering Laughter_ this past winter, mainly because it was usually not even listed among his better books; that is too bad.

Stegner is one of the best American writers that hardly anybody knows, and this is probably one of his most underrated works. "Haunting" and "poignant" are two words that I almost always find myself using when describing Stegner's novels, and this novella is clearly in that category. This book is a great intro to Stegner. _Crossing to Safety_ and _The Spectator Bird_ are better, but in economy of words, this one holds its own.

For those of you who have never read Stegner, this is a great place to start. For those of you who have read Stegner, this is a delight to read. It's possible to see in this book the genesis of all of the stylistic techniques that Stegner would later employ to such great effect.

I regularly give this book to friends as a gift, usually in the hopes that they will also discover the joy of reading Wallace Stegner.

A Stegner to remember.
Illustrating Tolstoy's observation that "all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way," Wallace Stegner's first novel, REMEMBERING LAUGHTER (1936), travels from the heighths of laughter (p. 13) to the depths of family grief in just 150 pages.Along the way, Stegner introduces us to Margaret Stuart and her younger sister, Elspeth, and then reveals the dark secret of infidelity binding them together in a constantly eroding relationship. While only in their forties, Stegner observes the twin-like sisters "were two old women sentenced to the prison they had made for themselves, doomed to wear away slowly, toughly; to fade and wither and dry up inch by inch in the silence of their house" (p. 150).Although it lacks much of the depth of Stegner's BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN (1943),ALL THE LITTLE LIVE THINGS (1967), and his Pulitzer-Prize-winning ANGLE OF REPOSE (1971), three novels which reveal a writer at the heighths of his talent, REMEMBERING LAUGHTER nevertheless offers a compelling tale you won't soon forget.

G. Merritt

Early hallmarks of Stegner's greatest works.
On the front porch of their Iowa farm house, Margaret Stuart and her sister Elspeth watch the arrival of the funeral guests of Margaret's husband Alec.Having aged rapidly and before their time, they seem to be twins; although in fact there is a seven year age difference between them.Living with them, grieving alone in his room is Malcolm, their son.

This is the introduction to Wallace Stegner's first short novella, written in 1936 as his submission to a prize contest held by Little, Brown & Co.(Not surprisingly, Stegner won.)We next see the sisters 18 years earlier, at Elspeth's arrival in Iowa.Margaret and Alec are a handsome and, it seems, happy couple; although there are early warning signs - Margaret complains about her husband's taste for alcohol, he about her moralizing.Soon after the arrival of Margaret's younger sister, pretty and ostensibly much more naïve and innocent than Margaret, the relationship between the three begins to change; subtly but inevitably, until Margaret eventually stumbles into the discovery of her husband's affair with Elspeth.That discovery, almost more than the affair itself it appears, destroys the bonds between the sisters, between husband and wife, and between Elspeth and Alec.Yet, they go on living together, and together they raise Malcolm, the child born out of Elspeth's and Alec's relationship; held out as their nephew to minimize public shame.And while they keep themselves occupied with the farm business and with entertaining their neighbors, and even garner considerable outward success, inside they slowly dry up: Unlike in our end-of-the-20th/beginning of the 21st century culture, where "talk it over" and "bring it out" are the buzzwords ofa society believing (perhaps rightly so) that for better or worse, problems not openly addressed will forever remain unsolved, an all-out display of the emotional turmoil besetting Stegner's heroes simply is not an option - in "Remembering Laughter" as little as in his later, Pulitzer prize winning "Angle of Repose."

Stegner's wife Mary revealed in a short afterword to Penguin's 1996 republication of "Remembering Laughter" that the story was based on two old aunts of hers, one a widow and one a spinster, who together had raised a son who could have been the child of either of them; Mrs. Stegner wasn't sure whose.Only 150 pages long, this first novella already has all the hallmarks of Stegner's later works - compelling characters and a keenly accurate portrayal of their social context, set in the vast, magnificent and often merciless environment of the Western prairies which Stegner loved so much.This novella is an excellent introduction to Wallace Stegner's work (Stegner also has to be credited with contributing to the redefinition of this particular art form in 20th century American literature) and a great morality tale condensed to its essentials; not easy to swallow but highly recommended.

Also recommended:
Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Collected Stories (Penguin Classics)
The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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