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Book Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
Preface
The stories in the Fairy Books have generally been such as old women in country places tell to their grandchildren. Nobody knows how old they are, or who told them first. The children of Ham, Shem and Japhet may have listened to them in the Ark, on wet days. Hector's little boy may have heard them in Troy Town,More... | |
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Book Title: The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, andMore... | |
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Book Title: David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION
I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret - pleasureMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Book Title: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Prologue
Through the kindness of Dorothy Gale of Kansas, afterward Princess Dorothy of Oz, an humble writer in the United States of America was once appointed Royal Historian of Oz, with the privilege of writing the chronicle of that wonderful fairyland. But after making six books about the adventures of those interesting butMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic
Book Title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Preface
A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures
in an Underground World; and How with the
Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka
the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse,
They Finally Reached the
Wonderful Land
of Oz
by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz"
To My Readers
It's no use; no use at all. The childrenMore... | |
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