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  • The Devil is an Ass (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. Projectors, gallants, and gulls in Jacobean London—monopolies, masquerades, and legal chicanery that even an imp finds infernal.

    by Ben Jonson, Oran Beck, Oran Beck ...
    Ben Jonson's The Devil is an Ass (1616) is a scintillating city comedy in which Pug, a minor devil, descends on Jacobean London only to discover that human projectors, gallants, and gulls outstrip Hell in invention. The action circles the credulous Fitzdottrel, exploited by the patent-monger Meercraft and outmaneuvered by the witty Wittipol, who even cross-dresses as a Spanish lady to test virtue ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Notes from Underground (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. 1860s Saint Petersburg confession of Russian psychological realism: unreliable narrator, nihilism, alienation, proto-existential satire

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Oran Beck, Oran Beck ...
    Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is a taut two-part novella that assaults the era's rational egoism and utilitarian optimism. In Part One, the unnamed Underground Man delivers a jagged, self-lacerating monologue, wielding paradox against deterministic science and social engineering. Part Two, Apropos of the Wet Snow, stages his ideas as lived humiliation: petty clashes with former ... Read more

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  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An American fairy tale of a Kansas tornado, the Yellow Brick Road, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion & Wicked Witch of the West.

    by L. Frank Baum, Oran Beck, Oran Beck ...
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) follows Kansas girl Dorothy Gale, swept by cyclone to Oz, who travels the Yellow Brick Road with the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and Cowardly Lion to petition a humbug wizard. In brisk, transparent prose and episodic chapters, Baum fashions a distinctly American fairy tale, replacing Gothic admonition with spectacle, humor, and kindness, amplified by W. W. Denslow's ... Read more

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  • Oliver Twist (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. An Orphan's Coming-of-Age in Victorian London's Underworld: Fagin's Pickpockets, Bill Sikes, a Mystery of Identity, and the New Poor Law

    by Charles Dickens, Oran Beck, Oran Beck ...
    Oliver Twist maps the passage of an orphan from parish workhouse to London's criminal underworld, exposing the hypocrisies of the New Poor Law and the commodification of childhood. In a blend of picaresque movement, melodramatic suspense, and Gothic chiaroscuro, Dickens employs an omniscient, satiric narrator whose indignation is leavened by irony and pathos. Vivid set pieces—workhouse cruelty, ... Read more

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  • The Wizard of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum, Daisy Alberto ...
    Illustrated by W.W. Denslow ...
    Series series A Stepping Stone Book
    Baum's story of Dorothy, carried by a cyclone from a Kansas farm to the land of the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion, was published in May 1900. By the following January, 100,000 copies had been sold, and the book has ever since been an undisputed favorite. The original illustrations by Denslow, which are reflected in the film and stage versions, have often been imitated but never ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The Wonderful World of Oz

    The Wizard of Oz; The Emerald City of Oz; Glinda of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum, Jack Zipes ...
    Illustrated by W. W. Denslow, John R. Neill ...
    Series series Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
    This fully annotated volume collects three of Baum's fourteen Oz novels in which he developed his utopian vision and which garnered an immense and loyal following. The Wizard of Oz (1900) introduces Dorothy, who arrives from Kansas and meets the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, the Cowardly Lion, and a host of other characters. The Emerald City of Oz (1910) finds Dorothy, Aunt Em, and Uncle Henry ... Read more

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  • The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz (Mobi Classics)

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W.W. Denslow. It was originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago in 1900, and has since been reprinted countless times, sometimes under the name The Wizard of Oz. The story chronicles the adventures of a girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz. Thanks in part to the 1939 MGM movie The Wizard ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Glinda of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    This is the fourteenth and last Oz book. Princess Ozma and Dorothy attempt, unsuccessfully, to stop a war between two tribes, the Skeezers and the Flatheads. The two of them are imprisoned on a glass-covered island belonging to the Skeezers, which is now located at the bottom of a lake. Only their queen, Coo-ee-oh, can raise the submerged island but after losing in battle, she becomes a swan and ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Lost Princess of Oz

    by Lyman Frank Baum ...
    Princess Ozma is missing! When Dorothy awakens one morning to discover that the beloved ruler of the Land of Oz has disappeared, all of the Emerald City's most celebrated citizens join in the search for the lost princess.But Ozma isn't all that's gone missing. The magical treasures of Oz have disappeared, too, including the Magic Picture, the Wizard's black bag, and even Glinda's Great Book of ... Read more

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  • Little Wizard Stories of Oz

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    L. Frank Baum was an American author best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. This edition of Little Wizard Stories of Oz includes a table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.70 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Ozma Of Oz (Mobi Classics)

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Ozma of Oz, published on July 29, 1907, was the third book of L. Frank Baum's Oz series. It was the first in which Baum was clearly intending a series of Oz books. Where at the end of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's silver shoes were lost in the desert, at the end of Ozma of Oz, Glinda tells her the magic belt she could wish herself home with would likewise be lost, and Dorothy carefully ... Read more

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  • Dorothy And The Wizard In Oz (Mobi Classics)

    by L. Frank Baum ...
    Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz is the fourth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by John R. Neill. It was published on June 18, 1908 and reunites Dorothy with the humbug Wizard from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This is one of only two of the original forty Oz books (the other being The Emerald City of Oz) to be illustrated with watercolor paintings.Baum, having ... Read more

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