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Book Title: The Chimes
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
FIRST QUARTER
There are not many people -- and as it is desirable
that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish
a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I beg it
to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to
young people nor to little people, but extend it to all
conditions of people: little andMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, Entertainment
Book Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
Preface
The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren. Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days. Hector's little boy may have heard them in Troy Town,More... | |
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| | | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Book Title: Ozma of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Author's Note
My friends the children are responsible for this new "Oz Book," as they were for the last one, which was called The Land of Oz. Their sweet little letters plead to know "more about Dorothy"; and they ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she becameMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Adventure, Classic
Book Title: Rob Roy
Author: Walter Scott
Book Description:
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION
When the Editor of the following volumes published, about two
years since, the work called the ``Antiquary,'' he announced that he
was, for the last time, intruding upon the public in his present
capacity. He might shelter himself under the plea that every
anonymous writer is, like theMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic
Book Title: Blue Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
THE BRONZE RING
ONCE upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits, not even grass or shady trees.
The King was in despair about it, when a wise old manMore... | |
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