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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.
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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: 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: 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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