The last book in the Oz series, it was started by Baum and completed after his death based on his notes. Ozma and Dorothy find references to a war that will begin soon. Ozma decides that it is her responsibility to stop the war and sets out to do so...

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In this short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of A Secret Garden, a nouveau riche American family from the hills of North Carolina travel to Paris at the command of the mother, a small tyrannical woman who breaks her daughter's engagement to the man she loves in order to make a proper match for her pretty daughter. The young fiance follows her to Paris, and a sympathetic young French couple are instrumental in reuniting the lovers. ..

Playwright, novelist, and singer/actor Hans Christian Andersen wrote deeply personal fairy stories, many of which are completely original, and others which are based on Danish folklore. These stories include "The Red Shoes," "The Ugly Duckling," "The Emperor's New Clothes," and "The Little Mermaid."..

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This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

Howard Pyle is considered the father of American book illustration. His paintings were dramatic in composition and theme. He was also an author and performed original research on pirates and buccaneers in order to write the Book of Pirates. The wonderful illustrations have fallen into the public domain and will be added to this vbk edition in 2006!..

A Roy Rockwood adventure story takes readers on a journey to the center of the Earth. Professor Amos Henderson invents the Flying Mermaid, a craft able to voyage to the interior of the Earth through a big hole he and his intrepid companions discovered while exploring an island in the Atlantic Ocean, far from the coast of South America. Mishaps, dangers, ancient ruins, and the discovery of treasure await the adventurers...

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In Herman Melville's novella, Billy Budd is revered as the most handsome, innocent, and cheerful sailor aboard the Bellipotent. Only Master-at-Arms John Claggart remains cold towards young Billy, ever plotting to make his life difficult and unpleasant. Claggart frames Billy for treason when undercurrents of mutiny run through the fleet...

Beowulf was the first major poem written in a European language and is one of the most important Old English poems. Found in a tenth century manuscript, it is thought to have been composed in the seventh or eighth century. Beowulf, the hero of the epic, frees the Danes by killing Grendel, an ogre that has been terrorizing them, as well as Grendel?s mother who seeks to avenge her son's death. ..

Colorful, vivid stories of the California Gold Rush, the Wild West, and the Mexican War made Bret Harte one of the most popular writers of his time. This short story title is the epithet of one Alexander McGee, whose accurate aim would pierce the bull's eye of a mechanical target and cause a bell to ring. ..

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