Subject for July, 2016
Chapter 3 – A Few More Lessons
Subject: Agnes Grey
I ROSE next morning with a feeling of hopeful exhilaration, in spite of the disappointments already experienced; but I found the dressing of Mary Ann was no light matter, as ...
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Chapter 2
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
When Dorothy recovered her senses they were still falling, but not so fast. The top of the buggy caught the air like a parachute or an umbrella filled with wind, and held th...
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Chapter 2 – First Lessons In The Art Of Instruction
Subject: Agnes Grey
AS we drove along, my spirits revived again, and I turned, with pleasure, to the contemplation of the new life upon which I was entering. But though it was not far past the ...
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Chapter 1
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The train from ‘Frisco was very late. It should have arrived at Hugson’s Siding at midnight, but it was already five o’clock and the gray dawn was breaking...
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Chapter 1 – The Parsonage
Subject: Agnes Grey
ALL true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely co...
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Preface
Subject: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
A Faithful Record of Their Amazing Adventures in an Underground World; and How with the Aid of Their Friends Zeb Hugson, Eureka the Kitten, and Jim the Cab-Horse, ...
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Chapter 21 – Dorothy’s Magic Belt
Subject: Ozma of Oz
Dorothy passed several very happy weeks in the Land of Oz as the guest of the royal Ozma, who delighted to please and interest the little Kansas girl. Many new acquaintances wer...
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Chapter 20 – The Emerald City
Subject: Ozma of Oz
Dorothy decided to accept Ozma’s invitation to return with her to the Land of Oz. There was no greater chance of her getting home from Ev than from Oz, and the little ...
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Chapter 19 – The King of Ev
Subject: Ozma of Oz
If there were any shifting, rock-colored Nomes on the mountain side now, they were silent and respectful, for our adventurers were not annoyed, as before, by their impudent l...
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Chapter 18 – The Fate of the Tin Woodman
Subject: Ozma of Oz
Dorothy obeyed. She ran at once behind the Nome King, who was still trying to free his eyes from the egg, and in a twinkling she had unbuckled his splendid jeweled belt and ...
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