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The Jungle Tales of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs
The sixth book of Tarzan, King of the Jungle. This is actually a collection of several short stories all about the times when Tarzan was a young boy and a teenager being raised by the great apes. The young Tarzan was unlike the great apes who were his only companions and playmates. Theirs was a simple, savage life, filled with little but killing or being killed. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn. He had painfully taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he sought to apply this book knowledge to the world around him. He sought for such things as the source of dreams and the whereabouts of God. And he searched for the love and affection that every human being needs. But he was alone in his struggles to grow and understand. The life of the jungle had no room for abstractions.
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Essays: First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
(1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Original. In thinking deeply about the human condition and the place of the individual in the universe, he created Transcendentalism. While it has fallen in station, as all movements do, because they are touted and expropriated by lesser lights, Emerson's thought is still capable of lifting us to our rightful station as moral actors on a fraught stage. Be warned, he is pedantic to the point of distraction and the language is dauntingly opaque. You cannot, however, read this and emerge unmoved or unchanged. Persevere. It will be worth it. As an aside, every CEO and Board member should be required to read Chapter 3: Compensation.--Submitted by Larry Graham.
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The Magic of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Magic of OzL. Frank Baum
(1919) In this book, the Wizard, Dorothy, and a few of her friends set off to find a birthday present for Ozma of Oz. Meanwhile, two of the most ineffectual villains in literature history try to take over Oz with the use of a magic word that allows you to change shape. Of course, the key word here is "try".--Submitted by Anonymous
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The Girl With The Headscarf
BookgirlingMoments
The Girl With The HeadscarfBookgirlingMoments
she tried her best to keep herself in wraps but he seemed determined to undo her
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald
(1922) The victor belongs to the spoils.--ANTHONY PATCH This novel takes the reader through a poignant love story between Anthony, a self-absorbed heir to a great fortune, and the stunningly beautiful, but equally self-absorbed, Gloria. The two have little use for anything or anybody but themselves. Fitzgerald's beautiful prose and excellent development of the characters makes this an enjoyable read. What is even more fascinating about the vintage 1922 novel is its description of life in that time. Things we take for granted today are portrayed in a 1915-ish reality. For instance, Anthony and Gloria grow weary of the train ride to their summer house near Rye, NY. Anthony then comes-up with the a remarkable fix; they will purchase an automobile!--Submitted by Anonymous.
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With Kitchener in the Soudan
G. A. Henty
With Kitchener in the SoudanG. A. Henty
A Story of Atbara and Omdurman. Illustrated by William Rainey (1903)
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The Ranch
Stewart Edward White
The RanchStewart Edward White
(1921)
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The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Frisky SquirrelArthur Scott Bailey
(1915)
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Captain Paul
Alexandre Dumas pere
Captain PaulAlexandre Dumas pere
Le Capitaine Paul (1838) Dumas' first serial novel.
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
(1895) "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"--Esdras. This, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. Highly controversial when it was first published, with outcries from the Victorian public for its frank treatment of s*x, it was often referred to as "Jude the Obscene". Heavily criticised for its apparent attack on the institution of marriage through the presentation of such concepts as erotolepsy, the book caused further strain on Hardy's already difficult marriage because Emma Hardy was concerned that Jude the Obscure would be read as autobiographical. This is an almost unbearably sad story about love and s****l desire mapped into the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century, has come to be recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels. It tells the tragic story of Jude Fawley, a kid from the country whose aspirations to university scholarship are thwarted; his socially unacceptable love affair is also a disaster. This is a great novel written by Thomas Hardy. Jude Fawley is an orphan boy, fostered by his Aunt. Disqualified from university because he belongs to a poor family, he tries to survive but fails in both love and education. Jude is confused between sensual love, which is represented by Arabella, and spiritual love, represented by Sue Bridehead.--Submitted by fahim This intensely bleak novel contains themes already explored in Hardy's previous novels: social injustice, the position of women in Victorian society, the hypocrisy of religion and the invalidity of existing societal mores. However, the over-arching theme of the novel is the human condition, which Hardy believes is inescapable and inevitable. In his later novels Hardy not only denies the presence of God, but seems to see the world as being ruled by a malevolent deity. His atheism precedes the twentieth century novels of James Joyce and D. H. Laurence. A recurrent theme is that of the uselessness of trying to atone for previous "mistakes": Fate will always prevail and no beneficent God will offer forgiveness. This is true of Sue in "Jude", who feels that by flouting contemporary values she has defied God, who is now punishing her. Fate also traps Henchard (Mayor of Casterbridge), and Tess (Tess of the D' Urbervilles), whose dark ending makes explicit man's vulnerability to external dark forces. I have mentioned these other two novels because they have elements in common with "Jude". Hardy depicts the world as he sees it, dark and bleak where escape from one's Fate is impossible, and to paraphrase Elizabeth (Major of Casterbridge), happiness is merely a short interlude in a malevolent world turbulence. My introduction is designed to set "Jude" in context and encourage exploration of links with Hardy's other great novels.--Submitted by Jill Giannotta Jude the Obscure is a work by Thomas Hardy that takes the reader on a young man's discovery of himself and the world- the world as we too often bleakly find it as opposed to the world of sparkling wonder we too often wish it to be. Hampered by class and convention, struggling with desire and the desire to be moral, Jude aspires to a career above his station and aspires to love, successfully, a woman he cannot fully understand. His struggle is a valiant one, in the face of foes and frustration, the outcome being a lesson learned by so many that life may not take us where we wish to go, yet, on the journey, chance teaches much and atones for more.--Submitted by Claire
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Liza of Lambeth
William Somerset Maugham
Liza of LambethWilliam Somerset Maugham
(1897) A tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It draws on Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum. Maugham writes in Chapter 1: "... it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story; the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue." This novel is about the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in a fictional area close to Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth.
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The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
The Pink Fairy BookAndrew Lang
(1897) ~
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The Learned Women
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
The Learned WomenJean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
(1692)
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The Road to Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Road to OzL. Frank Baum
(1909)
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PlanIt ~ The Future Fable of An Action Designer
amzolt
PlanIt ~ The Future Fable of An Action Designeramzolt
It was a whole different world he was about to enter---not here or there, now or then but, potentially, all places and times. His Sage had warned him that first-timers, especially young ones, should take it one step at a time. That wasn't his way. His Sage had counselled moderation. He was going to take the trip from front to back-straight through; no time out...
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Christmas in Cokeworth
Rosaria Marie
Christmas in CokeworthRosaria Marie
A loose sequel to "Harry Potter and the Road Trip to Remember" (still in progress), about Harry being forced to spend Christmas with Severus Snape in Cokeworth during his second year. Features a blend of humor, drama, and just a tuft of holiday fluff.
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BORN OF ENERGYTray-CKierra
Teleportation Time stopper Healer Not to mention, the cool abilty to shoot flaming balls of pure energy. ***************************************** These are powers possesed by Mayana Louise Dale. And why not? After all, she's a Queen and she was BORN OF ENERGY. Literally. ***************************************** Two worlds in one. One girl to save them all. ***************************************** She's Fryanan, princess of sorts and her people know her as Swrenaylia. Fryana is another world on earth, part of the earth really and the entire culture of Fryana is based on the manipulation of energy. Maya is an 18 year old Fryanan living on earth. She's a protector of both worlds. What happens when the peace and balance of both worlds is threatened by over achieving Fryanans led by her traitorous usurper of an uncle who want to take over both worlds? Is she really just a protector after all? Is she truly who she thinks she is or is her whole life one big lie..? Will she be the person everyone expects her to be and free her people or will she fail leaving the world in ruins and despair? Follow the quest of a young Fryanan girl A fantasy like no other.
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The Double Traitor
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Double TraitorE. Phillips Oppenheim
(1915)
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Strawberry Acres
Grace S. Richmond
Strawberry AcresGrace S. Richmond
(1911) To The Owner of "Grasslands"
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A surprise cameo
LadyCordeliaStuart
A surprise cameoLadyCordeliaStuart
Watching Scream 2, I was most intrigued by Cotton Weary's character. This is my alternate version of Scream 2, where he turns out to be Ghostface instead of Mrs. Loomis. He's got a bone to pick with Sydney Prescott-will she make it out alive? (Set right after Mickey reveals his part in the killings.)
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The Jungle Tales of TarzanEdgar Rice Burroughs
The sixth book of Tarzan, King of the Jungle. This is actually a collection of several short stories all about the times when Tarzan was a young boy and a teenager being raised by the great apes. The young Tarzan was unlike the great apes who were his only companions and playmates. Theirs was a simple, savage life, filled with little but killing or being killed. But Tarzan had all of a normal boy's desire to learn. He had painfully taught himself to read from books left by his dead father. Now he sought to apply this book knowledge to the world around him. He sought for such things as the source of dreams and the whereabouts of God. And he searched for the love and affection that every human being needs. But he was alone in his struggles to grow and understand. The life of the jungle had no room for abstractions.
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Essays: First Series
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First SeriesRalph Waldo Emerson
(1841) Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American Original. In thinking deeply about the human condition and the place of the individual in the universe, he created Transcendentalism. While it has fallen in station, as all movements do, because they are touted and expropriated by lesser lights, Emerson's thought is still capable of lifting us to our rightful station as moral actors on a fraught stage. Be warned, he is pedantic to the point of distraction and the language is dauntingly opaque. You cannot, however, read this and emerge unmoved or unchanged. Persevere. It will be worth it. As an aside, every CEO and Board member should be required to read Chapter 3: Compensation.--Submitted by Larry Graham.
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The Magic of Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Magic of OzL. Frank Baum
(1919) In this book, the Wizard, Dorothy, and a few of her friends set off to find a birthday present for Ozma of Oz. Meanwhile, two of the most ineffectual villains in literature history try to take over Oz with the use of a magic word that allows you to change shape. Of course, the key word here is "try".--Submitted by Anonymous
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The Girl With The Headscarf
BookgirlingMoments
The Girl With The HeadscarfBookgirlingMoments
she tried her best to keep herself in wraps but he seemed determined to undo her
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The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and DamnedF. Scott Fitzgerald
(1922) The victor belongs to the spoils.--ANTHONY PATCH This novel takes the reader through a poignant love story between Anthony, a self-absorbed heir to a great fortune, and the stunningly beautiful, but equally self-absorbed, Gloria. The two have little use for anything or anybody but themselves. Fitzgerald's beautiful prose and excellent development of the characters makes this an enjoyable read. What is even more fascinating about the vintage 1922 novel is its description of life in that time. Things we take for granted today are portrayed in a 1915-ish reality. For instance, Anthony and Gloria grow weary of the train ride to their summer house near Rye, NY. Anthony then comes-up with the a remarkable fix; they will purchase an automobile!--Submitted by Anonymous.
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With Kitchener in the Soudan
G. A. Henty
With Kitchener in the SoudanG. A. Henty
A Story of Atbara and Omdurman. Illustrated by William Rainey (1903)
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The Ranch
Stewart Edward White
The RanchStewart Edward White
(1921)
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The Tale of Frisky Squirrel
Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Frisky SquirrelArthur Scott Bailey
(1915)
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Captain Paul
Alexandre Dumas pere
Captain PaulAlexandre Dumas pere
Le Capitaine Paul (1838) Dumas' first serial novel.
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Jude the Obscure
Thomas Hardy
Jude the ObscureThomas Hardy
(1895) "Yea, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become servants for their sakes. Many also have perished, have erred, and sinned, for women... O ye men, how can it be but women should be strong, seeing they do thus?"--Esdras. This, the last completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895. Its protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man, a stonemason, who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion and marriage. Highly controversial when it was first published, with outcries from the Victorian public for its frank treatment of s*x, it was often referred to as "Jude the Obscene". Heavily criticised for its apparent attack on the institution of marriage through the presentation of such concepts as erotolepsy, the book caused further strain on Hardy's already difficult marriage because Emma Hardy was concerned that Jude the Obscure would be read as autobiographical. This is an almost unbearably sad story about love and s****l desire mapped into the peculiar English matrixes of class and destiny in the Victorian 19th century, has come to be recognized as one of Hardy's most important novels. It tells the tragic story of Jude Fawley, a kid from the country whose aspirations to university scholarship are thwarted; his socially unacceptable love affair is also a disaster. This is a great novel written by Thomas Hardy. Jude Fawley is an orphan boy, fostered by his Aunt. Disqualified from university because he belongs to a poor family, he tries to survive but fails in both love and education. Jude is confused between sensual love, which is represented by Arabella, and spiritual love, represented by Sue Bridehead.--Submitted by fahim This intensely bleak novel contains themes already explored in Hardy's previous novels: social injustice, the position of women in Victorian society, the hypocrisy of religion and the invalidity of existing societal mores. However, the over-arching theme of the novel is the human condition, which Hardy believes is inescapable and inevitable. In his later novels Hardy not only denies the presence of God, but seems to see the world as being ruled by a malevolent deity. His atheism precedes the twentieth century novels of James Joyce and D. H. Laurence. A recurrent theme is that of the uselessness of trying to atone for previous "mistakes": Fate will always prevail and no beneficent God will offer forgiveness. This is true of Sue in "Jude", who feels that by flouting contemporary values she has defied God, who is now punishing her. Fate also traps Henchard (Mayor of Casterbridge), and Tess (Tess of the D' Urbervilles), whose dark ending makes explicit man's vulnerability to external dark forces. I have mentioned these other two novels because they have elements in common with "Jude". Hardy depicts the world as he sees it, dark and bleak where escape from one's Fate is impossible, and to paraphrase Elizabeth (Major of Casterbridge), happiness is merely a short interlude in a malevolent world turbulence. My introduction is designed to set "Jude" in context and encourage exploration of links with Hardy's other great novels.--Submitted by Jill Giannotta Jude the Obscure is a work by Thomas Hardy that takes the reader on a young man's discovery of himself and the world- the world as we too often bleakly find it as opposed to the world of sparkling wonder we too often wish it to be. Hampered by class and convention, struggling with desire and the desire to be moral, Jude aspires to a career above his station and aspires to love, successfully, a woman he cannot fully understand. His struggle is a valiant one, in the face of foes and frustration, the outcome being a lesson learned by so many that life may not take us where we wish to go, yet, on the journey, chance teaches much and atones for more.--Submitted by Claire
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Liza of Lambeth
William Somerset Maugham
Liza of LambethWilliam Somerset Maugham
(1897) A tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It draws on Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum. Maugham writes in Chapter 1: "... it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story; the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue." This novel is about the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in a fictional area close to Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth.
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The Pink Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
The Pink Fairy BookAndrew Lang
(1897) ~
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The Learned Women
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
The Learned WomenJean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
(1692)
0 reads
The Road to Oz
L. Frank Baum
The Road to OzL. Frank Baum
(1909)
0 reads
PlanIt ~ The Future Fable of An Action Designer
amzolt
PlanIt ~ The Future Fable of An Action Designeramzolt
It was a whole different world he was about to enter---not here or there, now or then but, potentially, all places and times. His Sage had warned him that first-timers, especially young ones, should take it one step at a time. That wasn't his way. His Sage had counselled moderation. He was going to take the trip from front to back-straight through; no time out...
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Christmas in Cokeworth
Rosaria Marie
Christmas in CokeworthRosaria Marie
A loose sequel to "Harry Potter and the Road Trip to Remember" (still in progress), about Harry being forced to spend Christmas with Severus Snape in Cokeworth during his second year. Features a blend of humor, drama, and just a tuft of holiday fluff.
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BORN OF ENERGYTray-CKierra
Teleportation Time stopper Healer Not to mention, the cool abilty to shoot flaming balls of pure energy. ***************************************** These are powers possesed by Mayana Louise Dale. And why not? After all, she's a Queen and she was BORN OF ENERGY. Literally. ***************************************** Two worlds in one. One girl to save them all. ***************************************** She's Fryanan, princess of sorts and her people know her as Swrenaylia. Fryana is another world on earth, part of the earth really and the entire culture of Fryana is based on the manipulation of energy. Maya is an 18 year old Fryanan living on earth. She's a protector of both worlds. What happens when the peace and balance of both worlds is threatened by over achieving Fryanans led by her traitorous usurper of an uncle who want to take over both worlds? Is she really just a protector after all? Is she truly who she thinks she is or is her whole life one big lie..? Will she be the person everyone expects her to be and free her people or will she fail leaving the world in ruins and despair? Follow the quest of a young Fryanan girl A fantasy like no other.
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The Double Traitor
E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Double TraitorE. Phillips Oppenheim
(1915)
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Strawberry Acres
Grace S. Richmond
Strawberry AcresGrace S. Richmond
(1911) To The Owner of "Grasslands"
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A surprise cameo
LadyCordeliaStuart
A surprise cameoLadyCordeliaStuart
Watching Scream 2, I was most intrigued by Cotton Weary's character. This is my alternate version of Scream 2, where he turns out to be Ghostface instead of Mrs. Loomis. He's got a bone to pick with Sydney Prescott-will she make it out alive? (Set right after Mickey reveals his part in the killings.)
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