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    Fifty Famous Stories Retold

    By James Baldwin

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    CONCERNING THESE STORIES. There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of on ...

    Rating: 2.33

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    Cousin Betty

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    Money, jealousy, and romantic intrigue make for plenty of trouble in Honore de Balzac's 1846 novel Cousin Betty. Lonely Betty has been witness to her wealthy relatives' scandalous irresponsibility for ...

    Rating: 4.67

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    Father Goriot

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    of admiration for his works and genius. DE BALZAC. Mme. Vauquer (_nee_ de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a ...

    Rating: 4.33

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    Eugénie Grandet

    By Honoré de Balzac

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    EUGÉNIE GRANDET. Scènes de la vie de Province. Par HONORÉ DE BALZAC. _Que votre nom, vous dont le portrait est le plus bel ornement de cet ouvrage, soit ici comme une branche de buis bénit, prise ...

    Rating: 5.00

  • cover for Art of Money Getting

    Art of Money Getting

    By P.T. Barnum

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    No circus tricks here: Barnum's goal was to "put money in his own coffers," and that he did, pocketing an unprecedented fortune from his shows. Step right up to find out his secrets.

    Rating: 4.10

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    My Lady Nicotine

    By J. M. Barrie

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    CHAPTER I. MATRIMONY AND SMOKING COMPARED. The circumstances in which I gave up smoking were these: I was a mere bachelor, drifting toward what I now see to be a tragic middle age. I had become so ac ...

    Rating: 3.00

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    The Little Minister

    By J. M. Barrie

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    CHAPTER I. THE LOVE-LIGHT. Long ago, in the days when our caged blackbirds never saw a king's soldier without whistling impudently, "Come ower the water to Charlie," a minister of Thrums was to be mar ...

    Rating: 4.00

  • cover for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

    Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

    By J. M. Barrie

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    If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say ...

    Rating: 4.33

  • cover for Les Fleurs du Mal

    Les Fleurs du Mal

    By Charles Baudelaire

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    Out of the heart of turbulent nineteenth-century Paris came Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poetry collection Les Fleurs du Mal. Unapologetically bold, these poems cut to the core of life in modern Europe ...

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    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    In L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy Gale is a young Kansas girl who finds the world turned upside down when she emerges from her home after a fierce tornado. Nothing is a ...

    Rating: 4.21

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    Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz" The train from 'Frisco was very late. It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking i ...

    Rating: 3.67

  • cover for The Emerald City of Oz

    The Emerald City of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    The Nome King was in an angry mood, and at such times he was very disagreeable. Every one kept away from him, even his Chief Steward Kaliko. Therefore the King stormed and raved all by himself, walki ...

    Rating: 3.00

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    Glinda of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    by L. FRANK BAUM "Royal Historian of Oz" Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor -- a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the Fairy ...

    Rating: 3.40

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    The Lost Princess of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    There could be no doubt of the fact: Princess Ozma, the lovely girl ruler of the Fairyland of Oz, was lost. She had completely disappeared.Not one of her subjects--not even her closest friends--knew ...

    Rating: 3.00

  • cover for American Fairy Tales

    American Fairy Tales

    By L. Frank Baum

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    L. Frank Baum, the magician behind the beloved children’s classic, The Wizard of Oz, brings twelve stories of wonder and delight to life in his 1901 collection American Fairy Tales. Fairies, elves, ...

    Rating: 4.40

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    Ozma of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    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 ...

    Rating: 3.57

  • cover for Rinkitink in Oz

    Rinkitink in Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    By L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz" Here is a story with a boy hero, and a boy of whom you have never before heard. There are girls in the story, too, including our old friend Dorothy, and some ...

    Rating: 3.25

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    The Magic of Oz

    By L. Frank Baum

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    by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz" Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so marvelous and inspiring th ...

    Rating: 3.33

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