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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: 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 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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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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Book Title: Roughing It
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PREFATORY.
This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history
or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of
variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting
reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad
him with science. Still,More... | |
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Book Title: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Book Description:
Books:
The Masque of the Red Death
Message found in a Bottle
The Premature Burial
The Raven
The Sphinx
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Complete Collection of Poems
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
TheMore... | |
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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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