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Lyman Frank Baum was an American children's book writer best-known for creating the popular Wizard of Oz series. Baum was a prolific writer who wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and about 42 scripts. He often wrote under pseudonyms. Of all the books, the one that made Baum a household name was The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The Nothing is a haunting science fiction short story by legendary author Frank Herbert that explores humanity’s confrontation with the unknowable. When scientists encounter a mysterious force known only as “the Nothing,” they discover a phenomenon that defies measurement, language, and reason itself. As attempts to understand and contain it fail, the true horror emerges—not destruction, but the collapse of meaning, certainty, and identity.

Frank Wedekind is widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern drama, whose works influenced later writers such as Brecht and Dürrenmatt. His best-known plays were Spring Awakening and Lulu, both of which transgressed the social norms of his time and still have the power to shock and provoke us today. They are included here, alongside his lesser-known tragicomedy The Marquis of Keith.

Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman aristocrat and Catholic prelate born in 538. He died 56 years later, in 591, a period in which the brutal Merovingian rulers of the Frankish nation consolidated their power over most of Gaul. Gregory experienced the transition from the dying world of Roman antiquity to the new culture of early medieval Europe. He lived on the border between the Frankish culture of the Merovingians to the north and the Gallo-Roman culture of the south of Gaul. He struggled through personal relations with four Frankish kings.

A brilliant short story demonstrating how a truly balanced set of dilemmas can allow a reader to conclude two different endings. In this case a young man is faced with two doors. One holds a door with a ferocious tiger. The other? A beautiful lady whom he would immediately marry. The struggle comes not so much in defining a choice, but the reasons that brought the young man to the choice, and who helps him make the choice.

Quando Anne inizia il suo diario, nel giugno del 1942, ha appena compiuto tredici anni. Poche pagine, e all'immagine della scuola, dei compagni e di amori piú o meno ideali, si sostituisce la storia della lunga clandestinità. Obbedendo a una sicura vocazione di scrittrice, Anne ha voluto e saputo lasciare testimonianza di sé e dell'esperienza degli altri clandestini. La prima edizione del Diario subí tuttavia non pochi tagli, ritocchi, variazioni.

When the gorgeous and mysterious "Miss Wonderly" walks into the shabby San Francisco office of Spade and Archer, she brings with her a story about a missing sister, a stack of cash—and enough trouble to get a man killed. Before the night is over, Sam Spade's partner is dead, shot down in a dark alley. The police think Spade pulled the trigger. And suddenly he's caught in a deadly game with a gang of thieves who will lie, cheat, and murder to possess a priceless statuette—the jewel-encrusted Maltese Falcon.

《安妮日记》是德籍犹太人安妮·弗兰克写的日记，记录其藏身密室时的生活和情感。战争结束，安妮的父亲奥托·弗兰克决定完成女儿的夙愿，将日记出版问世。…… 《安妮日記》是德籍猶太人安妮·法蘭克寫的日記，記錄其藏身密室時的生活和情感。戰爭結束，安妮的父親奧托·弗蘭克決定完成女兒的夙願，將日記出版問世。

"My boy, may an old man's curse rest upon you, if you do not try to avenge your father!" Answering those words, young Frank Eaton determines to settle with each of the six men who had riddled his father full of lead. Frank's thirst for a reckoning takes him across the lawless Indian Territory, to Southwest City, Missouri, to the wide-open mesa lands of eastern New Mexico and, finally, to Albuquerque.

Enchanting, tragic, and hilarious fairy tales for adults and children grace these pages. An initial glance might lead you to assume that these are satirical versions of classic Christmas ghost stories. However, beneath the humorous stories involving ghosts, repentant sinners, miracles, and good peasants who find well-deserved happiness, lies a psychological undercurrent that sharpens the sense of intrigue and plot movement. Often this is aided by the unrelenting social exposure of the authors who always understood how intangible the "bourgeois paradise" truly was.

Tik-Tok of Oz is the eighth book in the Oz series written by L. Frank Baum, published on June 19, 1914. The book has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man (introduced in The Road to Oz ) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King. The book was based on Baum's play The Tik-Tok Man of Oz , which was produced in Los Angeles in spring 1913. Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a small monarchy separated from the rest of Oz's Winkie Country, sets out to raise an army to conquer Oz.

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899) wrote over 100 ‘rags-to-riches’ novels, often about teenage boys forced by circumstances to earn their own living selling newspapers, blacking boots, carrying luggage, or tending store.

הקוסם מארץ עוץ, מיום שהופיע ועד עצם ימינו אלה, הוא אחד מרבי המכר הגדולים שראו אור מעולם, סיפור שעובד למאות גרסאות, להצגות, למחזות זמר ולסרטים. מלכתחילה, הביקורות על...

Wedekind, dessen Aufführungen von Zensurverboten sehr erschwert waren, war einer der bedeutendsten Dramatiker, Mitbegründer des „Simplizissimus“. Für ein im „Simplizissimus“ veröffentlichtes politisches Gedicht erhielt er drei Monate Festungshaft wegen Majestätsbeleidigung.

The odds are never in her favor. Good thing this mage doesn’t play by the rules. She once passed as an obedient servant. Now, Senior Investigator Ember Wright shines a light on corruption wherever she finds it. But the corrupt are hitting back. They’re hitting back hard. Her cover blown, they’ve branded her as public enemy number one. With a target painted on her back and on anyone who dares help her, Ember leads a global uprising. When her changeling friends get caught in the crossfire, she learns the true cost of freedom.

Her changeling friends are imprisoned. To free them, she’ll have to break the laws of magic. Ember Wright managed to save her friends’ lives, only to see them locked up and tormented. With each passing day, the changelings weaken and submit to their interrogators. Secrets start to slip. Running out of options and allies, Ember turns to an ancient, forbidden form of advanced magic. Her reluctant teacher’s warning echoes in her head: Almost all mages who attempt the spell become corrupted by it.

Duster Dorword's first cattle drive is almost the death of him. Will he survive the harsh trail life, Mexican bandits, and a kidnapping? Rescue comes from the most unlikely place - but will it come in time?

Charlie Roy and pale, skinny Sir Arthur, an English gentleman, arrive at the Crown B ranch, north of Cheyenne, which is owned by the sir's sister, Elizabeth, who was widowed just the past winter and left with a ranch that lost nearly all its beef stock from the brutal '86-'87 winter freeze. Additionally, Elizabeth's dead husband's former partner, Justin Harper, is hell-bent on taking over her ranch. But what Harper and his boys don't figure on is interference by the likes of Charlie and the fierceness of the Sir.

Ein Tagebuch, eigenhändig verfasst im jugendlichen Alter und dennoch ein Stück Weltliteratur - wer könnte das von sich behaupten? Nur jemand, der unter besonderen Umständen lebt und sie in aller Eindringlichkeit zu schildern weiß. Gut zwei Jahre nach Beendigung des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist das Buch erschienen, was nicht bedeutet, dass die Autorin ihn überlebt hätte. Das galt nur für ihren Vater, der vor dem Zugriff gerettete Aufzeichnungen an eine Öffentlichkeit weitergab, die massives Interesse daran zeigte.

Mit locker-leichtem Plauderton führt Frank Suchland seine Hörer durch das Wunderland der Poesie...