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The Illustrated copy of Little Wizard of OZ Stories. Little Wizard Stories of Oz is a set of six short stories written for young children by L. Frank Baum, the creator of the Oz books. The six tales were published in separate small booklets, "Oz books in miniature," in 1913, and then in a collected edition in 1914 with illustrations by John R. Neill. Each booklet was 29 pages long, and printed in blue ink rather than black. The stories were part of a project, by Baum and his publisher Reilly & Britton, to revitalize and continue the series of Oz books that Baum had written up to that date. The story collection effectively constitutes a fifteenth Oz book by Baum. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
With Her in Ourland is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1916. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The book starts where Herland ends and continues to follow the protagonists established in Herland as they confront the inequities of our land. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Pamela Censured is the 18th century erotica novel that is anything but censured. The "warm scenes" as many in the time referred to them as can be quite detailed though it is hard to say they are graphic by today's standards as these standards shift. It does contain explicit content and reader discretion is advised. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories by American Author Herman Melville. They are: "The Piazza," "Bartleby, the Scrivener," "Benito Cereno," "The Lightning-Rod Man," "The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles," and "The Bell-Tower." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 - 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
His Last Bow His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes is the second to last series of short stories of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes by the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. They follow The Valley of Fears and are only followed by The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Mansfield Park is the third novel by the author Jane Austen. Published in 1814 the novel tells the story of Fanny Price. She is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle, though marriage, at the age of 10. Not as famous as her other two novels, and though the mention of the English slave trade makes this her most controversial book, it is commonly received as her best writing. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Typee: A Romance of the South Seas is the first novel of the famous author, Herman Melville who penned Moby Dick. Published in London in 1846, it is considered a classic example of adventure literature. The novel is loosely based on Herman Melville's own life, and corroborated by a fellow castaway, Richard Tobias Greene. The story focuses on a castaway like Melville who lives among cannibals, an event that made Melville famous. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Valley of Fear The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final detective novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to feature the famous protagonist Sherlock Holmes. The plot centers around a fictional secret society based on the Molly Maguires. Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Cicero's Brutus is a history of Roman oratory. It is written in the form of a dialogue, in which Brutus and Atticus ask Cicero to describe the qualities of all the leading Roman orators up to their time. Cicero then attempts to propose a reconstruction of Roman history. It should be noted that while it is written in the form of a dialogue, the majority of the talking is done by Cicero with occasional intervention by Brutus and Atticus. The work was probably composed in 46 BC, with the purpose of defending Cicero's own oratory. He begins with an introductory section on Greek oratory of the Attic, Asianic, and Rhodian schools, before discussing Roman orators, beginning with Lucius Junius Brutus, "The Liberator", though becoming more specific from the time of Marcus Cornelius Cethegus. Cicero begins his work by lamenting the death of his friend Hortensius and then ponders on whether anyone should feel sad that his friend died. His dialogue then proceeds to the moment where he comes across Brutus and Atticus. They begin to discuss a letter that reveals that the Roman state has suffered numerous losses and that Rome is going through tumultuous times. Cicero proceeds and states that he wants to write a universal history of Roman oratory. Because of the fatal overthrow of the state, Cicero deems it necessary to write this history of eloquence. Cicero begins by stating that eloquence is a difficult thing to acquire and that it was first present in Atticus' hometown: Athens. Oratory does not appear in the infancy of Athens, but is evident in the maturity of her power. He traces oratory from figures such as Peisistratos, Solon, Pericles, and mentions how figures like Socrates challenged them. He continues by saying that oratory was only limited to Athens and was not ubiquitous in Greece. It was from here that oratory spread through parts of Asia and the world. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Anna Karenina is the world renowned novel by the author Leo Tolstoy published in installments from 1873 to 1877. Anna Karenina is often regarded as Tolstoy's best work and the pinnacle of realist fiction. The term "flawless" is used more often to describe the work than any other and remains one of the best selling novels to this day. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Round the Fire Stories Round the Fire Stories is a collection of seventeen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories originally published in 1908, they are meant to be read, "round the fire" upon a winter's night. Murder, mystery, ghosts and ghouls fill the pages of this classical set of stories. They are: I. The Leather Funnel II. The Beetle Hunter III. The Man with the Watches IV. The Pot of Caviare V. The Japanned Box VI. The Black Doctor VII. Playing with Fire VIII. The Jews' Breastplate IX. The Lost Special X. The Club-Footed Grocer XI. The Sealed Room XII. The Brazilian Cat XIII. The Usher of Lea House School XIV. The Brown Hand XV. The Fiend of the Copperage XVI. Jelland's Voyage XVII. B. 24 Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the fourth collection of short stories about the famous detective Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Printed in 1903 through 1904 in The Strand Magazine, they were finally published in 1905 as a compilation. Odin's Library Classics Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and "Fall". Blake's categorizes our modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through "experience", a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volume's "Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; in Innocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the "Dark Satanic Mills" of the Industrial Revolution. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Familiar Letters: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau Volume IV is a collection of letters by the famous American author Henry David Thoreau from 1894. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Romance of Lust: A Classic Victorian erotic novel. The novel was written anonymously in four volumes between 1873 and 1876. The book is told in the first person by a Charlie Roberts, the main protagonist, who is well endowed and has a veracious sexual appetite. The story is about his many sexual exploits including; anal sex, cunnilingus, double penetration, fellatio, flagellation, group sex, homosexuality, incest, lesbianism, masturbation, orgies, and pedophilia. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Moving the Mountain is the utopian novel by the predominant feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman published in 1915. It is among the classic utopian and dystopian novels of the early twentieth century. The plot involves two siblings meeting after 25 years outside Tibet. The protagonist returns to America to discover it has changed into a society unrecognizable from before. It is described as "beyond Socialism", a strain of nationalism. Themes such as "new humanitarianism," eugenics, renewable resources are discussed in restructuring society. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a notable American feminist. While she was most famous for her writings, both fiction and non-fiction, on feminism and social reform, she was also a poet, artist, magazine editor, lecturer, and social reformer. She was a great influence on modern feminism because of her view on utopian feminism and unorthodox lifestyle views. Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Zosimus; also known by the Latin name Zosimus Historicus, i.e. "Zosimus the Historian;" was a Greek historian who lived in Constantinople during the reign of the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasius I (491-518). According to Photius, he was a comes, and held the office of "advocate" of the imperial treasury. Zozimos was also known for condemning Constantines rejection of the pagan gods in his time. Zosimus' Historia Nova, or The New History is written in Greek in six books. For the period from 238 to 270, he apparently uses Dexippus; for the period from 270 to 404, Eunapius; and after 407, Olympiodorus. His dependence upon his sources is made clear by the change in tone and style between the Eunapian and Olympiodoran sections, and by the gap left in between them. In the Eunapian section, for example, he is pessimistic and critical of Stilicho; in the Olympiodoran section, he offers precise figures and transliterations from the Latin, and favors Stilicho. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard is a collection of historical short stories about a fictional hero during the Napoleonic Wars. It was written in 1895 and follows a Hussar Officer in the French Army named, Etienne Gerard. He is noted as a stereotypical Frenchman from a Englishman's point of view. He is brash and full of vanity, though it is written from a perspective of the French to satirize the British attitude. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Northing Abbey was Jane Austen's very first completed novel though it wasn't published until 1803. The novel satirizes of the popular Gothic novels of the time by telling the story circles around a young girl, Catherine Morland, that is in love with the same Gothic novels. Her life is anything but similar to the outlandish adventures in the novels she reads. The comedy comes from the pure monotony that Catherine experiences. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood was an unfinished novel at the time of the famous author Charles Dickens death. The plot was finished by John Forster, a biographer of Dickens, but the final ending is unknown. The protagonist of the novel is Edwin Drood's uncle and involves his interest in his pupil Rosa Bud, Drood's Fiancée, who meanwhile has an eye for another man, Neville Landless. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville was first published on April 1st 1857, April Fools Day, The same day as the setting for the book. The novel is a tale of interlocking stories sold in the style of the Canterbury Tales, about a group of travelers on a steamboat as they make their way down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Reviews were not positive but that has changes as noted, "Long mistaken for a flawed novel, the book is now admired as a masterpiece of irony and control, though it continues to resist interpretive consensus." It is now viewed as a classic work or fiction that every fan of literature should read. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Flock is a cautionary tale that strikes at the heart of one of the most controversial topics of our time without holding back in the same vein as George Orwell's Animal Farm. No matter your opinion on this topic, this story is sure to stir emotion and generate discussion. Brief Synopsis The Shepherd of a flock must leave for a time entrusting it to the loyal sheepdogs. These sheepdogs, being equipped with everything they need to protect their herd, are brought to question by the ones they have sworn to protect when the sheep begin to turn up injured; and worse. Prevented from following the commands of their Shepherd, the sheepdogs must make a decision that will affect the flock forever. The pages twist and turn with a cautionary tale that parallels the events in America today. As the story unfolds, the real issue of banning natural rights begin to surface. Brought to light is the end result of toying with those rights and the repercussions on the families and the greater society.
Ruritania is a fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for three books by Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), The Heart of Princess Osra (1896), and Rupert of Hentzau (1898). The first and third are set in the recent past, between the 1850s and 1880s. The second is set in the 1730s, though it refers to subsequent events that happened between that time and the time of writing. The Complete Ruritanian Romances contains all three novels by Anthony Hope set in Ruritania. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Sport Royal is the 1893 collection of short stories by the author of Sophy of Kravonia. The title is a reference to the game of hearts. The collection includes the titular story as well as: A Tragedy in Outline A Malapropos Parent How they Stopped the "Run" A Little Joke A Guardian of Morality Not a Bad Deal Middleton's Model My Astral Body The Nebraska Loadstone A Successful Rehearsal Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
The Illustrated Copy of The Last Egyptian. The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile is a novel written by L. Frank Baum, famous as the creator of the Land of Oz. The book was published anonymously on May 1, 1908 by Edward Stern & Co. of Philadelphia, with eight color plate illustrations by Francis P. Wightman. Baum left his name off of the book because he was concerned that "masquerading as a novelist" might hurt his career as a writer for children; but he identified himself as the author of the book during his lifetime when making fantasy films for children proved a financial disaster. The novel was reissued as a 304-page trade paperback in July 2002 by Fredonia Books in the wake of the growing critical reappraisal and public interest in Baum's work. It was the first time the book was published under Baum's name. As with Baum's other adventure novels for adult readers (which were published under the name Schuyler Staunton, a slight alteration of his maternal uncle's name, not used here owing to the different publisher), it is inspired by the works of H. Rider Haggard that Matilda Joslyn Gage had encouraged him and his wife (her daughter) to read. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Katia is the 1859 novel by Leo Tolstoy. The story is about young wife and her much older husband that come to realize they want different things out of life. There are ideals of happiness are not the same. The tone of the book is set but the opening line. "We were in mourning for our mother, who had died the preceding autumn, and we had spent all the winter alone in the country--Macha, Sonia and I." Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
This is political satire. Apparently that may be misconstrued. The arguments in this book though are as logical as the title states. Again because I have to explicitly state this; it is gibberish. But this makes a great gift for someone that may not understand this delicate point. So without further ado. The cover is summed up. So here we are. The last of the modern countries to get, well, modern healthcare. But why? What took America so long to come around? And why after countless reports, anecdotal evidence, and stories of saved finances, even lives, are some Americans still reluctant to accept the Affordable Care Act? Did we need this new piece of legislation to bring the American healthcare system up to the standards of the rest of the modern world? And did we truly even need to re-evaluate American healthcare in the first place? If so, has it worked and is it even legal? In WHY OBAMACARE WORKS these questions and more are answered. We take an in-depth look at not only how the Affordable Care Act works, but why it works. Even more, we look at the future of the Affordable Care Act and the possibility of a single-payer plan, for this great, ever forward-moving, country of ours'.
The Nursery "Alice" is the 1890 shortened and illustrated version of the 1865 book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by the famous author, Lewis Carroll - the pseudonym of Charles Dodgson. The book has been re-written with the intent to be read aloud and contains 20 fantastical illustrations by John Tenniel that make it the perfect "nursery" book. THIS IS A BLACK AND WHITE VERSION. A full color version is also available. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
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