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The
Girlhood of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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The
Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motor-Boat
Author:
Ross Kay
Author
of ``Dodging the North Sea Mines,"
"With Joffre on the Battle Line,"
"Fighting in France," "The
Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island,"
"The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure
Cave," etc.
Description: Every normal boy loves a
motor-boat, but words fail to express
his enthusiasm when that boat is also
a racer. Behind the events recorded in
this story are certain facts, so that
the tale is largely true. The author will
be glad if the account of life in the
open, the adventures and fortunes, good
or ill, the contests and exciting experiences
interest his readers even partly as much
as they did the boys who shared in the
actual occurrences. I have tried to write
a story filled with action, but devoid
of sensationalism and false representations.
If my boy friends enjoy the company of
the Go Ahead boys I shall feel repaid
for my labor.
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The
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The
Gods of Mars
Author:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fiction / Science Fiction
224 pages
Excerpt:
Twelve years had passed since I had laid
the body of my great-uncle, Captain John
Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight
of men in that strange mausoleum in the
old cemetery at Richmond. Often had I
pondered on the odd instructions he had
left me governing the construction of
his mighty tomb, and especially those
parts which directed that he be laid in
an OPEN casket and that the ponderous
mechanism which controlled the bolts of
the vault's huge door be accessible only
from the inside.
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The
Gods of Mars |
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The
Golden Rod Story Book |
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The
Great Boer War
Author:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: DT
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The
Great Boer War |
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The
Great English Short-Story Writers- Volume
1
Authors:
Brown,
John, 1810-1882
Defoe, Daniel, 1661-1731
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864
Hogg, James, 1770-1835
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
James, Henry, 1843-1916
Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
Content: The Apparition of Mrs. Veal,
by Daniel Defoe -- The Mysterious Bride,
by James Hogg -- The Devil and Tom Walker,
by Washington Irving -- Dr. Heidegger's
Experiment, by Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The Purloined Letter, by Edgar Allan Poe
-- Rab and His Friends, by Dr. John Brown
-- The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn, by
Charles Dickens -- A Story of Seven Devils,
by Frank R. Stockton -- A Dog's Tale,
by Mark Twain -- The Outcasts of Poker
Flat, by Bret Harte -- The Three Strangers,
by Thomas Hardy -- Julia Bride, by Henry
James -- A Lodging for the Night, by Robert
Louis Stevenson.
Language: English
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The
Great English Short-Story Writers- Volume
1 |
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The
Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales
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The
Green Flag and Other Stories |
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The
Guards Came Through and Other Poems |
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The
Harvester
Author:
Gene Stratton Porter
Fiction / General
388 pages
Excerpt:
As the man drew the covers over him, the
dog's nose began making an opening, and
a little later he quietly walked into
the room. The Harvester rested, facing
the lake. The dog sniffed at his shoulder,
but the man was rigid. Then the click
of nails could be heard on the floor as
Belshazzar went to the opposite side.
At his accustomed place he paused and
set one foot on the bed. There was not
a sound, so he lifted the other.
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The
Harvester |
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The
Heathen |
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The
Heroes-Or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children
Author:
Charles Kingsley
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
115 pages
Excerpt:
Once upon a time there were two princes
who were twins. Their names were Acrisius
and Proetus, and they lived in the pleasant
vale of Argos, far away in Hellas. They
had fruitful meadows and vineyards, sheep
and oxen, great herds of horses feeding
down in Lerna Fen, and all that men could
need to make them blest: and yet they
were wretched, because they were jealous
of each other.
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The
Heroes-Or Greek Fairy Tales For My Children
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The
History of Jack and the Giants |
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The
History of Jack and the Giants Part 1
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The
History of Jack the Giant Killer |
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The
History of John Giller-The Giant Killer
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The
Hollow Tree Snowed-In Book |
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The
Homely Heroine |
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The
Horkey
Author:
Robert. Bloomfield
Illustrator:
George Cruikshank
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The
Horkey |
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The
Hound of the Baskervilles
Author:
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Literature / Classics / Criticism
256 pages
Description:
Warned that death awaits him if he claims
his inheritance of a cursed ancestral
manor, Sir Henry Baskerville calls on
Sherlock Holmes for assistance, in a special
centennial edition of the mystery classic,
which features a new afterword by Brenda
Wineapple. Reprint.
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The
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The
House that Jack Built
Language: English
Content: The comical adventure before
Jack built his fine house -- The house
that Jack built -- Drunken Barnaby --
Dunce's cap -- Taylor and goose -- Jack's
study
Date [ca. 1815]
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The
House that Jack Built |
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The
Hunting of the Snark
Author:
Lewis Carroll
Poetry
126 pages
Description:
Inspired by the serendipitous line "For
the Snark was a Boojum, you see",
which occurred to him during a stroll,
Lewis Carroll crafted a classic work of
nonsense poetry and intrigued readers
for more than a century. The adventures
of a motley crew in search of an elusive
prey, The Hunting of the Snark is a fantasy
that sails along on magical language,
surreal images, and an undercurrent of
sly humor. Frequently asked to reveal
the meaning of The Hunting of the Snark,
Carroll declared himself at a loss to
explain what the voyage represented, conceding
only that "words mean more than we
mean to express when we use them".
Martin Gardner discusses the interpretations
-- political, moral, historical, and economic
-- that have been applied to the poem
and provides detailed annotations throughout.
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The
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The
Incomplete Amorist
Author:
Edith Nesbit
Fiction / General
400 pages
Excerpt:
Mr. Eustace Vernon is not by any error
to be imagined as a villain of the deepest
dye, coldly planning to bring misery to
a simple village maiden for his own selfish
pleasure. Not at all. As he himself would
have put it, he meant no harm to the girl.
He was a master of two arts, and to these
he had devoted himself wholly.
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The
Incomplete Amorist |
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The
Island of Doctor Moreau
Author:
Wells, H. G.
Literature / Classics / Criticism
182 pages
Excerpt:
On February the First 1887, the Lady Vain
was lost by collision with a derelict
when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude
107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888 - that
is eleven months and four days after -
my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman,
who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain
at Callao, and who had been considered
drowned, was picked up in latitude 5'
3" S. and longitude 101' W. in a
small open boat of which the name was
illegible, but which is supposed to have
belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha.
He gave such a strange account of himself
that he was supposed demented. Subsequently
he alleged that his mind was a blank from
the moment of his escape from the Lady
Vain. His case was discussed among psychologists
at the time as a curious instance of the
lapse of memory consequent upon physical
and mental stress. The following narrative
was found among his papers by the undersigned,
his nephew and heir, but unaccompanied
by any definite request for publication.
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The
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The
Jungle Book
Author:
Rudyard Kipling
Literature / Classics / Criticism
Description:
The Jungle Books can be regarded as classic
stories told by an adult to children.
But they also constitute a complex literary
work of art in which the whole of Kipling's
philosophy of life is expressed in miniature.
They are best known for the 'Mowgli' stories;
the tale of a baby abandoned and brought
up by wolves, educated in the ways and
secrets of the jungle by Kaa the python,
Baloo the bear, and Bagheera the black
panther. The stories, a mixture of fantasy,
myth, and magic, are underpinned by Kipling's
abiding preoccupation with the theme of
self-discovery, and the nature of the
'Law'.
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The
Jungle Book |
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The
Junior Classics- Volume 1 |
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The
King of the Golden River
Author:
John Ruskin
55 pages
Key words and phrases: gluck, golden river,
wesselhoeft, southwest wind, schwartz,
summer street, horatia, pot again, flask,
river rose, hollo, waters closed, juliana,
gentleman walked, dwarf, mr. gluck, moslem
spain, mrs. wesselhoeft, redbridge neighborhood,
jenny wallis
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The
King of the Golden River |
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The
Ladder of Rickety Rungs |
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The
Land of Nod |
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The
Land of Oz
Author:
L. Frank Baum
Description:
A little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil
guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help
of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o'-lantern
head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to
life with the magic Powder of Life Tip
stole from Mombi), as well as a living
Sawhorse (created from the same powder.)
Tip ends up on an adventure with the Scarecrow
and Tin Woodsman.
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The
Land of Oz |
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The
Land that Time Forgot |
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The
Last American
Author:
J. A. Mitchell
Biography / Autobiography
80 pages
Key words and phrases: khaz, eleven centuries,
iway, conversed together, khan, seventy
millions, allah, fine workmanship, persian,
moon above, verily, startling discovery,
scimitar, gentle blood, chur, praise allah,
science fiction, political science, comparative
religions
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The
Last American |
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The
Last Galley Impressions and Tales Impressions
and Tales
Author:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Language: English
Content:
The last galley.--The contest.--Through
the veil.--An iconoclast.--Giant Maximin.--The
coming of the Huns.--The last of the legions.--The
first cargo.--The home-coming.--The red
star.--The silver mirror.--The blighting
of Sharkey.--The marriage of the brigadier.--The
Lord of Falconbridge.--Out of the running.--"De
profundis."--The great Brown-Pericord
motor.--The terror of Blue John Gap
Date 1911
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The
Last Galley Impressions and Tales Impressions
and Tales |
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The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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The
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (Volume
1) (1911)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
v.1.
1868-1880: Scotland. France. California--v.2.
1880-1887: Alps and Highlands. Hyères.
Bournemouth--v.3. 1887-1891: The Adirondacks.
Pacific voyages. First year at VailimaVailima.--v.4.
1891-1894: Second, third, and fourth years
at Vailima The end
Date 1911
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The
Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (Volume
1) |
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The
Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane |
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The
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
Author:
Lyman Frank Baum
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
192 pages
Description:
A new edition of L. Frank Baum's Christmas
classic. Every child knows about Santa
Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts
to all on Christmas. There are many stories
that tell of his life, but the delightful
version relayed in The Life and Adventures
of Santa Claus is by far the most charming
and original of all. Only L. Frank Baum,
the man who created the wonderful land
of Oz, could have told Santa's tale in
such rich and imaginative detail.
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The
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
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The
Life and Perambulations of a Mouse
Author:
Kilner, Dorothy
Children's Books/Ages 9/12 Fiction
96 pages
Description:
During a remarkably severe winter, when
a prodigious fall of snow confined everybody
to their habitations, who were happy enough
to have one to shelter them from the inclemency
of the season, and were hot obliged by
business to expose themselves to its rigour,
I was on a visit to Meadow Hall; where
had assembled likewise a large party of
young folk, who all seemed, by their harmony
and good humour, to strive who should
the most contribute to render pleasant
that confinement which we were all equally
obliged to share. Nor were those further
advanced in life less anxious to contribute
to the general satisfaction and entertainment.
After the more serious employment of reading
each morning was concluded, we danced,
we sung, we played at blind-man's-buff,
battledore and shuttlecock, and many other
games equally diverting and innocent;
and when tired of them, drew our seats
round the fire, while each one in turn
told some merry story to divert the company.
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The
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The
Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume
Ii) |
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The
Life of Robert Louis Stevenson For Boys and
Girls |
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The
Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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The
Little Engine that Could
Author:
Watty Piper
Illustrator:
Lois L. Lenski
Description:
Everyone loves The Little Engine That
Could, that classic tale of the determined
little engine that, despite its size,
triumphantly pulls a train full of toys
to the waiting children on the other side
of a mountain.
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The
Little Engine that Could |
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The
Little Fairy Sister |
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The
Little Lame Prince-2nd-Ed
Author:
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
120 pages
Excerpt:
Nothing either frightening or ugly, but
still exceedingly curious. A little woman,
no bigger than he might himself have been
had his legs grown like those of other
children; but she was not a child--she
was an old woman. Her hair was gray, and
her dress was gray, and there was a gray
shadow over her wherever she moved. But
she had the sweetest smile, the prettiest
hands, and when she spoke it was in the
softest voice imaginable.
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The
Little Lame Prince-2nd-Ed |
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The
Little Lame Prince
Author:
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
120 pages
Excerpt:
Nothing either frightening or ugly, but
still exceedingly curious. A little woman,
no bigger than he might himself have been
had his legs grown like those of other
children; but she was not a child--she
was an old woman. Her hair was gray, and
her dress was gray, and there was a gray
shadow over her wherever she moved. But
she had the sweetest smile, the prettiest
hands, and when she spoke it was in the
softest voice imaginable.
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The
Little Lame Prince |
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The
Little Mother Goose |
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The
Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe |
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The
Little Red Balloon |
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The
Little Wise Chicken that Knew It All |
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The
Lock and Key Library
Authors:
Castle,
Egerton, 1858-1920
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928
Editor: Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934
Content:
Rudyard
Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
Egerton Castle
The Baron's Quarry
Stanley J. Weyman
The Fowl in the Pot
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pavilion on the Links
Wilkie Collins
The Dream Woman
Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire
Language: English
LoC Class PR: Language: and Literatures:
English literature
Subject: Fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Mystery and detective stories,
English
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The
Lock and Key Library |
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The
Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and
Detective Stories Mode
Authors:
Castle,
Egerton, 1858-1920
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Weyman, Stanley John, 1855-1928
Editor: Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934
Content:
Rudyard
Kipling
My Own True Ghost Story
The Sending of Dana Da
In the House of Suddhoo
His Wedded Wife
A. Conan Doyle
A Case of Identity
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
Egerton Castle
The Baron's Quarry
Stanley J. Weyman
The Fowl in the Pot
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Pavilion on the Links
Wilkie Collins
The Dream Woman
Anonymous
The Lost Duchess
The Minor Canon
The Pipe
The Puzzle
The Great Valdez Sapphire
Language: English
LoC Class PR: Language: and Literatures:
English literature
Subject: Fiction
Subject: Short stories
Subject: Mystery and detective stories,
English
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The
Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective
Stories Mode |
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The
Lost Continent
Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Fiction / Science Fiction
156 pages
Description:
Since earliest childhood I have been strangely
fascinated by the mystery surrounding
the history of the last days of twentieth
century Europe. My interest is keenest,
perhaps, not so much in relation to known
facts as to speculation upon the unknowable
of the two centuries that have rolled
by since human intercourse between the
Western and Eastern Hemispheres ceased
- the mystery of Europe's state following
the termination of the Great War - provided,
of course, that the war had been terminated.
From out of the meagerness of our censored
histories we learned that for fifteen
years after the cessation of diplomatic
relations between the United States of
North America and the belligerent nations
of the Old World, news of more or less
doubtful authenticity filtered, from time
to time, into the Western Hemisphere from
the Eastern
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The
Lost Continent |
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The
Lost Prince (1915)
Author:
Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 1849-1924
Language: English
Date 1915
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The
Lost Prince |
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The
Lost Prince Version 2 |
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The
Lost Prince Version 3 |
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The
Lost Princess of Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures:
Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
Subject Fantasy
Date 1918
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The
Lost Princess of Oz |
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The
Lost Princess of Oz Version 2
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures:
Juvenile belles lettres
Subject Oz (Imaginary place) -- Fiction
Subject Fantasy
Date 1918
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The
Lost Princess of Oz Version 2 |
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The
Lost Princess of Oz Version 3 |
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The
Lost World (c1912)
Author:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930
Language: English
Date c1912
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The
Lost World |
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The
Louis Wain Kitten Book |
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The
Mad King
Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950
Language: English
Library
of Congress Classification: PS
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The
Mad King |
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The
Magic of Oz- Version 2
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
The
Magic of Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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The
Magic of Oz- Version 2 |
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The
Magic of Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
The
Magic of Oz Library of Congress Classification:
PZ
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The
Magic of Oz |
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The
Magical Monarch of Mo
Author:
Baum, L. Frank
Fiction / General
208 pages
Description:
An amazing collection of juvenile short
stories, involving wizards and a sadistic
dragon. It takes us to the enchanted land
of Mo where people do not die and animals
can speak. Baum has portrayed the fantastic
world with such brilliance and vibrant
imagery that we can picture it in mind's
eye. Guaranteed to charm young readers
and all who are young at heart.
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The
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The
Man with the Twisted Lip
Author:
L. Frank Baum
Desciption:
The great detective Sherlock Holmes and
his intrepid companion, Dr. John Watson,
solve the mysteries of the devil's foot
(and Holmes gives up drugs), Silver Blaze
(no dogs barking in the night), Wisteria
Lodge (the tiger of San Pedro), and the
Bruce-Partington Plans.
Keywords: Based On Short Story | Private
Detective | Detective | Sherlock Holmes
| Victorian Era | Character Name In Title
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The
Man with the Twisted Lip |
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The
Maracot Deep
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Language: English
Description:
This was one of the works of fiction published
during Doyle's life. The story features
Professor Maracot who leads an expedition
to the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, discovering
a lost race of Atlanteans.
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The
Maracot Deep |
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The
Marquis of Carabas |
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The
Marvelous Land of Oz-2nd-Ed
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
The
Marvelous Land of Oz Library of Congress
Classification: PZ
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The
Marvelous Land of Oz-2nd-Ed |
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The
Marvelous Land of Oz- Version 2 |
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The
Marvelous Land of Oz
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
The
Marvelous Land of Oz Library of Congress
Classification: PZ
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The
Marvelous Land of Oz |
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The
Master Key-An Electrical Fairy Tale Founded
Upon the Mysteries of Electricity |
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The
Master Key- Version 2 |
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The
Master Key
Author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank),
1856-1919
Language: English
The
Master Key, an Electrical Fairy Tale Founded
Upon the Mysteries of Electricity Library
of Congress Classification: PZ
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The
Master Key |
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The
Master of Ballantrae-A Winters Tale |
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The
Master of the World
Author:
Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Note: Translation of Maître du monde.
Language: English
LoC Class PQ: Language: and Literatures:
Romance literatures: French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese
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The
Master of the World |
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The
May Blossom |
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The
Medicine Grizzly Bear
Author: George Bird Grinnell
Illustrator:
Edwin Willard Deming
Fiction
Keywords: Bears, Folklore, Pawnee Indians
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The
Medicine Grizzly Bear |
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The
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes |
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The
Monster Men
Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Fiction / Science Fiction
228 pages
Excerpt:
As he dropped the last grisly fragment
of the dismembered and mutilated body
into the small vat of nitric acid that
was to devour every trace of the horrid
evidence which might easily send him to
the gallows, the man sank weakly into
a chair and throwing his body forward
upon his great, teak desk buried his face
in his arms, breaking into dry, moaning
sobs. Beads of perspiration followed the
seams of his high, wrinkled forehead,
replacing the tears which might have lessened
the pressure upon his overwrought nerves.
His slender frame shook, as with ague,
and at times was racked by a convulsive
shudder. A sudden step upon the stairway
leading to his workshop brought him trembling
and wide eyed to his feet, staring fearfully
at the locked and bolted door.
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The
Monster Men |
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The
Moon-Voyage |
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The
Mother Goose : containing all the melodies
the old lady ever wrote (1850)
Author:
Goslin, Dame
Language: English
Keywords: Nursery rhymes
Date 1850
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The
Mother Goose |
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The
Mother Gooses Chimes-Rhymes-And Melodies
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The
Mother in White |
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The
Mother or the Old Nursery Rhymes |
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The
Mucker
Author:
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fiction / General
340 pages
Description:
Billy Byrne was a product of the streets
and alleys of Chicago's great West Side.
From Halsted to Robey, and from Grand
Avenue to Lake Street there was scarce
a bartender whom Billy knew not by his
first name. And, in proportion to their
number which was considerably less, he
knew the patrolmen and plain clothes men
equally as well, but not so pleasantly.
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The
Mucker |
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The
Mysterious Island
Author:
Jules Verne
Description:
The Mysterious Island follows the adventures
of a group of castaways who use their
survivalist savvy to build a functional
community on an uncharted island. A hot-air
balloon carrying five passengers and a
dog escapes from Richmond, Va., during
the American Civil War. It is blown off
course and deposited near an obscure island.
One of the castaways nearly dies after
a skirmish with pirates; he is saved by
the unexplained appearance of medicine
after the pirates are unexpectedly routed.
The group later discovers that their secret
helper is the reclusive Captain Nemo (first
introduced in Verne's Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea), who dies and is
buried at sea in his submarine. The castaways
are eventually saved by a passing ship.
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The
Mysterious Island |
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The
Mystery of Cloomber |
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The
National Nursery Book ([between 1865
and 1872])
Language: English
Content: (from t.p.) Red Riding-Hood --
Puss-in-boots -- Mother Hubbard -- Cock
Robin's death -- Jack and the bean-stalk
-- Tom Thumb -- Cinderella -- The three
bears -- Punch and Judy -- The pets --
Nursery songs -- Nursery rhymes -- Nursery
ditties -- Nursery tales -- Nursery jingles
Date [between 1865 and 1872]
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The
National Nursery Book |
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The
Neatness of Bobby Coon |
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The
Night Before Christmas
Author:
Clement Clarke Moore
Children's Books/Ages 4/8 Fiction
40 pages
Description:
The familiar verse about a visit from
Saint Nick is depicted in a late-twentieth-century
small town setting, which brings to life
the traditional American celebration of
a beloved holiday. "Watson's utterly
charming version of this old Christmas
chestnut places it in a timeless, firmly
earthbound setting full of movement.
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The
Night Before Christmas |
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 1) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 11) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 11) |
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 11) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 2) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 3) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 3) |
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 3) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 4) |
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 3) (1903)
Author:
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894
Language: English
PARTIAL
CONTENTS: v. 1. New Arabian nights.--v.
2. Treasure island.--v. 3. More new Arabian
nights. The dynamiter. The story of a
lie.--v. 4. Prince Otto. Island nights'
entertainments. Father Damien.--v. 5.
Kidnapped.--v. 6. David Balfour: a sequel
to kidnapped.--v. 7. The merry men, and
other tales and fables. Strange case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.--v. 8. The black
arrow. The misadventures of John Nicholson.
The body-snatcher.--v. 9. The master of
Ballantrae: a winter's tale.--v. 10. The
wrecker.--v. 11. The wrong box. The ebb
tide.--v. 12. An inland voyage. Travels
with a donkey. Edinburgh.--v. 14. Familiar
studies of men and books. Miscellaneous
papers.--v. 15. The amateur emigrant.
Across the plains. The silverado squatters.--v.
16. A child's garden of verses. Underwoods
ballads.--v. 17. Vailima letters.--v.
18. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin. Records
of a family of engineers.--v. 19. In the
South Seas. A foot-note to history.--
20. Weir of Hermiston. The plays of W.
E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Fables.--v. 21. St. Ives: being the adventures
of a French prisoner in England.--v. 22.
Sketches. Criticisms, etc.--v. 23. Letters
I.--v. 24. Letters II.--v. 26. Life II
Date 1903
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The
Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson
(Volume 8) |
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The
Nurnberg Stove
Author:
Ouida
Fiction / General
116 pages
Description:
A masterpiece for children, it originally
appeared in 1916. Written by Louise De
La Ramee under the pseudonym Quida, it
is a story of belief and loyalty. Guaranteed
to appeal to young readers!
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The
Nurnberg Stove |
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The
Nursery Play Book |
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The
Oakdale Affair
Author:
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Fiction / Mystery/ Detective
160 pages
Excerpt:
The house on the hill showed lights only
upon the first floor - in the spacious
reception hall, the dining room, and those
more or less mysterious purLieus thereof
from which emanate disagreeable odors
and agreeable foods. From behind a low
bush across the wide lawn a pair of eyes
transferred to an alert brain these simple
perceptions from which the brain deduced
with Sherlockian accuracy and Raffleian
purpose that the family of the president
of The First National Bank of - Oh, let's
call it Oakdale - was at dinner, that
the servants were below stairs and the
second floor deserted. The owner of the
eyes had but recently descended from the
quarters of the chauffeur above the garage
which he had entered as a thief in the
night and quitted apparelled in a perfectly
good suit of clothes belonging to the
gentlemanly chauffeur and a soft, checked
cap which was now pulled well down over
a pair of large brown eyes in which a
rather strained expression might have
suggested to an alienist a certain neophytism
which even the stern set of well shaped
lips could not effectually belie.
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