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Book Title: The Emerald City of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Author's Note
Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have used many suggestions conveyed to me in letters from children. Once on a time I really imagined myself "an author of fairy tales," but now I am merely an editor or private secretary for a host ofMore... | |
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Book Title: Dr. Moreau
Author: Herbert George Wells
Book Description:
INTRODUCTION.
ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision
with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107'
W.
On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--
my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went
aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and whoMore... | |
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Book Title: Barnaby Rudge
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
PREFACE
The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds.
The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud possessor. The firstMore... | |
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Book Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Preface
A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures
in an Underground World; and How with the
Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka
the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse,
They Finally Reached the
Wonderful Land
of Oz
by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz"
To My Readers
It's no use; no use at all. The childrenMore... | |
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Book Title: Bleak House
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
PREFACE
A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge's eye had a cast in my direction), was almostMore... | |
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Book Title: Tik-Tok of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
To My Readers
The very marked success of my last year's fairy book, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz," convinces me that my readers like the Oz stories "best of all," as one little girl wrote me. So here, my dears, is a new Oz story in which is introduced Ann Soforth, the Queen of Oogahoo, whom Tik-Tok assisted in conquering our oldMore... | |
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Book Title: Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
THE PREFACE
Since this little book appeared in print, it has had no less than three answers, and fresh attacks are daily expected from the powers of Grub-street; but should threescore antagonists more arise, unless they say more to the purpose than the forementioned, they shall not tempt me to reply.
Nor shall I engage inMore... | |
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Book Title: The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack London
Book Description:
Into the Primitive
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have
known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, But for
every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm,
long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men,
groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and
because steamshipMore... | |
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Book Title: The Violet Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
PREFACE
THE Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them `out of his own head.' He is accustomed to being asked, by ladies, `Have you written anything else except the Fairy Books?' He is then obliged toMore... | |
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