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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (/z/) is an American children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow, originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900. It has since seen several reprints, most often under the title The Wizard of Oz, which is the title of the popular 1902 Broadway musical adaptation as well as the iconic 1939 live-action film.The story chronicles the adventures of a young farm girl named Dorothy in the magical Land of Oz, after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their Kansas home by a cyclone. The book is one of the best-known stories in American literature and has been widely translated. The Library of Congress has declared it America's greatest and best-loved homegrown fairytale. Its groundbreaking success and the success of the Broadway musical adapted from the novel led Baum to write thirteen additional Oz books that serve as official sequels to the first story.Baum dedicated the book to my good friend & comrade, My Wife, Maud Gage Baum. In January 1901, George M. Hill Company completed printing the first edition, a total of 10,000 copies, which quickly sold out. It sold three million copies by the time it entered the public domain in 1956.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook PublicationsBook Plot SummaryBook Cultural Impact
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The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major themes are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways. Some contemporary reviews praised the play's humour and the culmination of Wilde's artistic career, while others were cautious about its lack of social messages. Its high farce and witty dialogue have helped make The Importance of Being Earnest Wilde's most enduringly popular play.The successful opening night marked the climax of Wilde's career but also heralded his downfall. The Marquess of Queensberry, whose son Lord Alfred Douglas was Wilde's lover, planned to present the writer with a bouquet of rotten vegetables and disrupt the show. Wilde was tipped off and Queensberry was refused admission. Their feud came to a climax in court, where Wilde's homosexuality was revealed to the Victorian public and he was sentenced to imprisonment. Despite the play's early success, Wilde's notoriety caused the play to be closed after 86 performances. After his release from prison, he published the play from exile in Paris, but he wrote no further comic or dramatic work.The Importance of Being Earnest has been revived many times since its premiere. It has been adapted for the cinema on three occasions. In The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), Dame Edith Evans reprised her celebrated interpretation of Lady Bracknell; The Importance of Being Earnest (1992) by Kurt Baker used an all-black cast; and Oliver Parker's The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) incorporated some of Wilde's original material cut during the preparation of the original stage production.-EXTENDED CONTENTBook IntroductionBook CompositionBook Synopsis
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BOOKS: SELECTED QUOTES AND WORDS OF WISDOM – Including Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Hemingway, George R.R. Martin, J.K. Rowling, Jane Austen, John Green, Mark Twain, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, Stephen King and many more!
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ABOUT GOLDEN QUOTES GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes.
Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK: GOLDEN QUOTES bring you a compilation of the very best quotes from the world's most iconic humans takes on «BOOKS», including:
– Abraham Lincoln – Ernest Hemingway – George R.R. Martin – J.K. Rowling – Jane Austen – John Green – Mark Twain – Neil Gaiman – Oscar Wilde – Roald Dahl – Stephen King
And many more!
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EXAMPLES:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ― Groucho Marx
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami
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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." ― J.D. Salinger
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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." ― Madeleine L'Engle
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"Books are a uniquely portable magic." ― Stephen King
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ABOUT GOLDEN QUOTES GOLDEN QUOTES is a collective of passionate individuals that love to appreciate timeless wisdom compiled and compressed into insightful quotes.
Our main goal is to infect you with motivation and inspiration to live life and engage with it at its fullest.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK: GOLDEN QUOTES bring you a compilation of the very best quotes from the world's most iconic humans takes on «BOOKS», including:
– Abraham Lincoln – Ernest Hemingway – George R.R. Martin – J.K. Rowling – Jane Austen – John Green – Mark Twain – Neil Gaiman – Oscar Wilde – Roald Dahl – Stephen King
And many more!
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EXAMPLES:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ― Groucho Marx
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." ― Haruki Murakami
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"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." ― J.D. Salinger
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"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children." ― Madeleine L'Engle
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"Books are a uniquely portable magic." ― Stephen King
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A STUDY IN SCARLET (Extended Edition) – By A. Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his «study in scarlet»: «There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.»
The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.
*THIS EXTENDED EDITION INCLUDES BONUS CONTENT ABOUT THE BOOK, AUTHOR AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, a consulting detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his «study in scarlet»: «There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.»
The story, and its main characters, attracted little public interest when it first appeared. Only 11 complete copies of the magazine in which the story first appeared, Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, are known to exist now and they have considerable value. Although Conan Doyle wrote 56 short stories featuring Holmes, A Study in Scarlet is one of only four full-length novels in the original canon. The novel was followed by The Sign of the Four, published in 1890. A Study in Scarlet was the first work of detective fiction to incorporate the magnifying glass as an investigative tool.
*THIS EXTENDED EDITION INCLUDES BONUS CONTENT ABOUT THE BOOK, AUTHOR AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT.
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