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Book Title: The Mysterious Stranger
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Chapter 1
IT WAS IN 1590 -- winter. Austria was far away from the world, and
asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so
forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that
by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of BeliefMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
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: 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: King Lear
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[King Lear's palace.]
[Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND]
KENT
I thought the king had more affected the Duke of
Albany than Cornwall.
GLOUCESTER
It did always seem so to us: but now, inMore... | |
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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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