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20,000 Leagues Under The
Sea
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Verne,
Jules
Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French
writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), published in 1870 under the
title Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. The original edition,
published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by
Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou. The novel is about the
fictional Captain Nemo and his submarine, Nautilus, as seen by one
of his passengers, Professor Pierre Aronnax.
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A Christmas Carol
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Dickens, Charles
Patrick Stewart's one-man production of Dickens's A Christmas
Carol played to sold-out audiences in New York and Los Angeles. In
this studio recording based on those performances, Stewart is in
rare form, using his considerable range of voices to play all
roles, from the Ghost of Christmas past to Tiny Tim. It must be
said that Stewart clearly enjoys playing Scrooge best of all--but
isn't the villain always the most compelling character? Even if
you feel that "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry
Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding and
buried with a stake of holly through his heart," this
rendition of Dickens's classic will get you in a Yuletide mood.
(Running time: 2 hours, 2 cassettes) --C.B. Delaney
--This
text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this
title.
(Source: Amazon.com)
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Adventures Of Huckleberry
Finn
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Twain, Mark
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain is commonly accounted as one of the first Great American Novels. It was also one of the first major American novels ever written using Local Color Realism or the vernacular, or common speech, being told in the first person by the eponymous Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, best friend of Tom Sawyer (hero of three other Mark Twain books). The book was first published in 1885.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
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Adventures Of Pinocchio
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Collodi, Carlo
The Adventures of Pinocchio (Italian: Le avventure di Pinocchio) is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo
Collodi. The first half was originally a serial between 1881 and 1883, and then later completed as a book for children in February 1883. It is about the mischievous adventures of Pinocchio (IPA:
[pi'nok:jo]), an animated marionette, and his poor father, a woodcarver named
Geppetto. It is considered a classic of children's literature and has spawned many derivative works of art, such as Disney's classic 1940 animated movie of the same name, and commonplace ideas, such as a liar's long nose.
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Adventures Of Tom Sawyer
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Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, is a popular 1876 novel about a young boy growing up in the Antebellum South on the Mississippi River in St. Petersburg, Missouri.
Tom Sawyer, a mischievous redheaded orphan taken in by his Aunt Polly, goes through a series of adventures involving his friends, Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. Tom is an escape master, and a professional trickster. He escapes punishment many times by his tricks. Though he is often foolish and unpredictable, he also is somewhat smart and has a good sense of humor. When not trying to win his sweetheart, Becky Thatcher, Tom is either getting into mischief or going on an adventure. Many times, Tom suddenly changes from his grinning self into a fearsome pirate or Indian. His laugh changes into a bloodcurdling yell or a barking captain's voice. Tom Sawyer's main doings are racing bugs, impressing girls with fights and stunts in the schoolyard, getting lost in a cave, and playing pirates on the Mississippi River. The best-known passage in the book describes how Sawyer persuades his friends to white-wash, or paint, a long fence for him. In this book, Mark Twain is trying to depict the fun of manhood.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
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Aesop's
Fables
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Aesop
Aesop's Fables or
Aesopica refers to a collection of fables credited to Aesop (620–560
BC), a slave and story-teller who lived in Ancient Greece. Aesop's
Fables have become a blanket term for collections of brief fables,
usually involving personified animals. The fables remain a popular
choice for moral education of children today. Many stories
included in Aesop's Fables, such as The Fox and the Grapes (from
which the idiom "sour grapes" was derived), The Tortoise
and the Hare, The North Wind and the Sun and The Boy Who Cried
Wolf, are well-known throughout the world.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
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Alice In Wonderland
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Caroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature by the English mathematician and author, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson, written under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy realm populated by grotesque figures like talking playing cards and anthropomorphic creatures.
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American Notes
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Dickens, Charles
American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America in January to June 1842. He traveled mainly on the east coast and Great Lakes area of both the United States and Canada, primarily by steamship, but also by rail and coach. While there he acted as a critical observer of these societies almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years later where he wrote far more like a tourist.
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Around The World In Eighty
Days
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Verne, Jules
Jules Verne’s
career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in
fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration.
In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his
companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in
just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the
well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved
Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot-
blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train,
steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome
storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the
dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard to win the extraordinary
wager. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race
against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences
upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day.
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At The Earth's Core
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
At the Earth's Core is a 1914 science fiction novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first in his series about the fictional "hollow earth" land of Pellucidar.
The author relates how, traveling in the Sahara desert, he has encountered a remarkable vehicle and its pilot, David Innes, a man with a remarkable story to tell.David is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the earth's crust, emerging into the unknown interior world of Pellucidar. In Burroughs' concept, the Earth is a hollow shell with Pellucidar as the internal surface of that shell.
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