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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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Book Title: Ozma of Oz
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description:
Author's Note
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 ask: "What became of the Cowardly Lion?" and "What did Ozma do afterward?"--meaning, of course, after she becameMore... | |
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Book Title: Those Extraordinary Twins
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
A man who is born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of
it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has
no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some
people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality. He knows
these people, he knows the selectedMore... | |
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Book Title: The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Book Description:
PREFACE.
This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was
not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's;
it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle
hour. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is
submitted without the usualMore... | |
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Book Title: Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc v2
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Chapter 28 Joan Foretells Her Doom
THE TROOPS must have a rest. Two days would be allowed for
this.
The morning of the 14th I was writing from Joan's dictation in a
small room which she sometimes used as a private office when she
wanted to get away from officials and their interruptions.
Catherine Boucher came in and satMore... | |
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Book Title: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Book Description:
N ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman,
and other old friends of Mark Twain:
I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you
who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their
making.
First, I want to confess how I haveMore... | |
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Book Title: Innocents Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Preface
THIS book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a
solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that
profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to
works of that kind, and withal so attractive. YetMore... | |
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Book Title: Carnival of Crime in CT
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT CARNIVAL OF CRIME IN CONNECTICUT
I was feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just
then the morning's mail was handed in. The first superscription I
glanced at was in a handwriting that sent a thrill of pleasure through
and through me. It was Aunt Mary's; and she wasMore... | |
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Book Title: 1601
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
INTRODUCTION
"Born irreverent," scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, "--like all
other people I have ever known or heard of--I am hoping to remain so
while there are any reverent irreverences left to make fun of."
--[Holograph manuscript of Samuel L. Clemens, in the collection of the
F. J. Meine]
Mark Twain was just asMore... | |
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