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 | |  | | Category: Classic 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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 | |  | | Category: Classic 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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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic 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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 | |  | | Category: Classic 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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 | |  | | Category: Classic 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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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: Dickory Cronke Author: Daniel Defoe Book Description: PREFACE
The formality of a preface to this little book might have been very well omitted, if it were not to gratify the curiosity of some inquisitive people, who, I foresee, will be apt to make objections against the reality of the narrative.
Indeed the public has too often been imposed upon by fictitious stories, and someMore... | |
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