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... The titular character is excluded from the inheritance of the family castle on the grounds that given ... Morano, and goes on to experience a series of adventures en route to his goal.

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... actions, the behaviour and the very character of the hero, I find it very difficult ... a powerful imagination and is quite capable of attributing to himself adventures which are not ...

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... day he received the beautiful coat of varnish in the workshop of Santa Claus at the North Pole ... . Before that he was just some pieces of wood, glued together. His head was not ...

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... , as he travels to Africa with some of his favorite pets to cure the monkeys of a terrible sickness.Source: Google Books

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... old Hertfordshire village and make a series of sketches of its imperiled beauties, he looked forward to ... , and to find himself one of the most important witnesses in "The Strange ...

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... her young son. By challenging the prevailing morals of the time the novel caused a critic to pronounce ... utterly unfit to be put into the hands of girls''. It is considered to be one ...

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The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon ... Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind ...

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Set in the imaginary South American republic of Costaguana, this work is an illustration of the impact of foreign exploitation on a developing nation ...

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... book and fifth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a ... 1912, and has been reprinted a number of times since. A 1918 edition from the ...

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... earned its lasting popularity, not only by the intense interest of the story, but by its faithful delineations ...

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... settled in by John Berthier Heatherstone, late of the Indian Army. General Heatherstone is ... paranoia reaches its climax around the fifth of October, after which date his fears ...

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... three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her husband and father-in-law, ... from seeing her poor family.The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a ...

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... who inhales it to a totalitarian Philadelphia of 2118 AD. It was written by Gertrude ... Stevens. Bennett, the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction, has been called ...

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... an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as ... gentleman's outfitters. Faced with the threat of bankruptcy, he concludes that the only way to ...

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... to oppose their love; this criticism of class friction in society acted as a ... biting social commentary. The inclusion of prostitution and sexual promiscuity in the plot ...

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... by many as one of the first European novels, and a classic of its era. Its author ... a century earlier in the royal court of Henry II of France, it recreates that era with remarkable ...

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... mysticism written in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual ... the why and how, for knowing will be more of a hindrance than a help." This 1912 edition was ...

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... king, Hammurabi. One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, inscribed on a ... in the cuneiform script. One of the first written codes of law in recorded history. ...

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... tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a ... major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. ...

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... first published in book form in Tales of the Jazz Age in 1922."Written almost ... six years ago, this story is a product of undergraduate days at Princeton. Considerably revised, it ...

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... Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country ...

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... , taking with him the orphan Smike, one of Squeers's most abused young charges, and the ... two embark on a series of adventurous encounters with an array of humanity's worst and best- ...

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... 's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip ... as he travels throughout the many lands of Oz. Here he meets with our old friends ...

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... her Teacher which she named Takhur Gulab-Singh. In spite of that the book was considered as novel, Blavatsky asserted that ...

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... previously. He had to invent many of the techniques he used for constructing the ... astronomical studies and discovered the spiral nature of some nebulas. He named the Crab Nebula ...

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