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  • 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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  • 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

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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 Universe Wreckers (Summarized Edition)

    Enriched edition. A Golden Age space opera of interplanetary conspiracy, gravity-warping superweapons, and a galactic blackmail that imperils space-time.

    by Edmond Hamilton, Oran Beck, Oran Beck ...
    In The Universe Wreckers, Edmond Hamilton mounts a cosmic thriller in which an interstellar cadre confronts a cabal threatening the fabric of space-time. Worlds tremble, suns are treated as engines, and colossal instruments thrum at the edge of the void. The style is breathless yet lucid, marrying pulp lyricism to armchair cosmology; classic early space opera with Hamilton's signature baroque ... 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

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

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  • The Mountain in the Sea

    A Novel

    by Ray Nayler ...
    *WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE“The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve read in years.”—Blake Crouch, author of Upgrade and Dark MatterHumankind discove... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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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

    $6.99 USD

  • 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

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  • L Frank Baum - Glinda Of Oz

    by Lyman Frank Baum ...
    Glinda of Oz: In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril by the Sorcery of Glinda the Good is the fourteenth Land of Oz book written by children's author L. Frank Baum, published on July 10, 1920. It is the last book of ... Read more

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  • Silver

    by Linda Nagata ...
    Series Book 2 - Inverted Frontier
    A Lost Ship – A New WorldUrban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet.Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his. He is desperate to return home to the ring-shaped artificial world he ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Lost Princess Of Oz

    by Lyman Frank Baum ...
    This is the eleventh book in the series and was published on June 5h, 1917. The introduction to the book says that its inspiration was a letter a little girl had written to Baum: "I suppose if Ozma ever got hurt or losted, everybody would be sorry." Dorothy is in the Emerald City looking for Ozma who is missing. But thats not all that is missing. Glinda awakens in her palace in the Quadling ... Read more

    $2.72 USD