American Fairy Tales

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

1. The Cyclone Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

CHAPTER I.--The Cyclone.

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The Marvelous Land of Oz Being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecr...

L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

By L. FRANK BAUM Author of FATHER GOOSE; HIS BOOK, THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ, ETC.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.