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The Reilly & Lee Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Handy Mandy in Oz (1937) is the thirty-first of the Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the seventeenth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The book's heroine is an "honest and industrious" goat-girl named Mandy, who grazes her flock on the slopes of Mt. Mern (a location otherwise unidentified). The story opens with a bang and a splash: an underground spring erupts in a geyser that blasts Mandy...
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"Every year on St. Walpurga's Eve, Caldella's Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of the mysterious Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. Working together they save her brother, but they draw the queen's...
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Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Thomas Bulfinch's "The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur" is a classic collection of the medieval legends of King Arthur. Contained in this volume are the following tales: The Mythical History of England, Arthur, Caradoc Briefbras, Sir Gawain, Launcelot of the Lake, The Story of Launcelot-The Adventure of the Cart, The Story of Launcelot-The Lady of Shalott, The Story of Launcelot-Queen Guenever's Peril, The Story of Tristram and Isoude,...
5) Grampa in Oz
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Publisher
Reilly & Lee
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Grampa in Oz (1924) is the eighteenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the fourth written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Things are going from bad to worse in the dilapidated kingdom of Ragbad; even the rag crop is failing. To top it all off (or not), King Fumbo's head is blown away in a ferocious storm (with "ten thousand pounds of thunder"). Prince Tatters of Ragbad, and Grampa, a former soldier and the bravest...
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The sun was shining so brightly through the foremost windows of the old schoolhouse in Upper Wood, that the children of the first and second classes appeared as if covered with gold. They looked at one another, all with beaming faces, partly because the sun made them appear so, and partly for joy; for when the sunshine came through the last window, then the moment approached that the closing word would be spoken, and the children could rush out into...
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Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A remarkable celebration from the Caldecott Honor-winning artist! A clever young boy outwits a band of voracious tigers and returns home in triumph to a splendid feast of a yard-high stack of pancakes. The story, penned by Helen Brodie Bannerman for her two daughters in 1889, has captured the imagination of readers around the world and across many generations. But the pictures which accompanied her text were crudely stereotypical and hurtful to many....
8) Dazzling
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology.
Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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One Thousand and One Nights is a collection of stories collected over many centuries by various authors, translators and scholars in various countries across the Middle East and South Asia. These collections of tales trace their roots back to ancient Arabia and Yemen, ancient Indian literature and Persian literature, ancient Egyptian literature and Mesopotamian mythology, ancient Syria and Asia Minor, and medieval Arabic folk stories from the
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Geoffry Hamlyn recollects the life, times and adventures of the Buckleys, Brentwood's, Dr Mulhaus, Tom Troubridge, Frank Maberly, his great friend Jim Stockbridge and the tragic Mary Thornton and her liaison with George Hawker. Initially the action is in Devon, then switches to Australia where they make their fortunes. This is classic Victorian fare, and a perfect example of how the Victorians structured and wrote before the influence of the great...
12) Paul Verlaine
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Publisher
Luce and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Stefan Zweig beschreibt in seiner Biographie von "Paul Verlaine" einen führenden Lyriker des Symbolismus, der viele spätere französische Dichter beeinflusste. Seine hochmusikalischen Verse bringen feinste Gefühlsregungen und Zwischentöne zum Ausdruck. Verlaines Maxime lautete: „De la musique avant toute chose." Die Thematik reicht von morbider Erotik bis zu ekstatischer Frömmigkeit. Er hat besonders die Kunst der Neuromantik beeinflusst. (Auszug...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Thomas Bulfinch's "Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages" is a classic collection of legends from the middle ages. Within this volume are the following tales: The Peers or Paladins, The Tournament, The Siege of Albracca, Adventures of Rinaldo and Orlando, The Invasion of France, Bradamante and Rogero, Astolpho and the Enchantress, The Orc, Astolpho's Adventures continued and Isabella's begun, Medoro, Orlando Mad, Zerbino and Isabella,...
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Reilly & Lee
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The Cowardly Lion of Oz (1923) is the seventeenth in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the third written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The story opens with Mustafa of Mudge, a turbaned desert monarch with blue whiskers, who collects lions. Mustafa demands one more lion - he already has nine thousand nine hundred and ninety nine and a half lions, but there are no more lions in Mudge,...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Thought to have been first written down in the 12th century by an author who is still unknown, "The Nibelungenlied," translated from Middle High German as "The Song of the Nibelungs," is an epic German poem reflecting the oral tradition, heroic motifs, and actual events and individuals from the 5th and 6th centuries. This remarkable work begins with an assurance of both joy and sorrow, though ultimately tragedy reins in "The Nibelungenlied." The early...
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English
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"A novel about dead bodies found in the snow, a mother seeking revenge, and old folk tales that may very well be true. New York Times bestselling author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection"--
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The University of Adelaide
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Chrétien's works include five major poems in rhyming eight-syllable couplets. Four of these are complete; 'Erec and Enide' (c. 1170); 'Cligès' (c. 1176), and 'Yvain, the Knight of the Lion' and 'Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart', both written simultaneously between 1177 and 1181. Chrétien's final romance was 'Perceval, the Story of the Grail', written between 1181 and 1190, but left unfinished, though some scholars have disputed this. This volume...
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Publisher
Book*hug Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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In this genre-bending debut collection merging horror, fairy tales, pop culture and sci-fi, women challenge the boundaries placed on their bodies while living in a world " among animals," where violence is intertwined with bizarre ecological disruptions.A sentient sex robot goes against her programming; a grad student living with depression is weighed down by an ever-present albatross; an unhappy wife turns into a spider; a boy with a...
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Publisher
Reilly & Lee
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (1939) is the thirty-third in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors, and the nineteenth and last written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. It was illustrated by John R. Neill. The story opens with a dinner party, attended by seven of the characters from Baum's inaugural book, including the castle-housemaid Jellia Jam. After the dinner, the Wizard takes his guests to a glass-domed building that contains...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Français
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Il y a deux histoires différentes dans Ceci n'est pas une Histoire.
Le premier raconte l'histoire de Tanié, amoureuse d'une femme vénale et gourmande, Madame Reymer. Tanié part à Saint-Domingue pendant dix ans pour faire fortune. Madame Reymer profite de son absence pour retrouver d'autres amants. À son retour de voyage, Tanié vit avec Mme Reymer environ cinq ans. Ensuite, M. de Maurepas propose
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