Treasury of the Familiar [Library Binding]

Ralph L. Woods (Author)

Product Details

• Library Binding: 751 pages
• Publisher: Buccaneer Books (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899668240
• ISBN-13: 978-0899668246
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #535,782 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Treasury of the Familiar, February 2, 2000

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Angie Rausch (Cheyenne, WY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Treasury of the Familiar (Library Binding)

This is the most amazing book! It includes any famous quotes, speeches, stories, poems, songs, etc. It is like having a mini-encyclopedia in one book. We use it all the time in our homeschool. You have to have this book.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding compilation!, August 11, 1999

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[e-mail] (Country Club Hills, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Treasury of the Familiar (Library Binding)

This book is the ONE book we take on ALL vacations! We usually go camping, and we read aloud many of the entries around the camp fire. Particular favorites are Poe's "The Raven", Robert W. Service's three poems, "Casey At The Bat", "The Face On The Floor", "When Father Carves A Duck", and (of course!) the story of the Creation (try page 10!). Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is another one of our favorites. THERE ARE TOO MANY TO LIST!!!!! An OUTSTANDING compendium of literature!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Has all the poems you know but never saw written down, December 26, 2000

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Mike Christie (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Treasury of the Familiar (Library Binding)

A lot of comments I've heard about this wonderful collection remark on
the odd juxtapositions within its pages: Shakespeare next to
"Silver Threads Among The Gold"; The Marine's hymn next to
Poe's "Raven"; Lincoln and Longfellow next to one of Dorothy
Parker's quips. It's true that this is one of this book's charms, but
I found something more to be prized. The "Treasury" is
exactly what it claims to be: a treasury of the hundreds of songs
you're familiar with but don't know by heart, and don't know where to
look up.

Everyone will have their own list of works they think
they'll never find again. Here's a partial list of mine; perhaps some
of these are ones you're hunting for too: Langdon Smith's
"Evolution" (When you were a tadpole and I was a fish/In the
Paleozoic time); Oliver Wendell Holmes' "The One-Hoss Shay";
Robert Service's "The Cremation of Sam McGee"; Henley's
"Invictus" (source of "I am the captain of my
soul"). And dozens more.

I found much I didn't care for here,
but much more I did. This is truly a remarkable collection. It
belongs on every bookshelf, if only because you'll never find another
source for so many of the poems within it. Buy it; you'll discover a
lot of old friends here.