| | 5 | Author: | Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas
prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was
the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build
it had to be carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a
floor and a roof, which made one room; and this room contained a rusty
looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table, three or four
chairs, and the beds. Uncle
Henry and Aunt Em had a big bed in
one corner, and Dorothy a little bed in another corner. There was
no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the
ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case
one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any
building in its path. It was reached by a trap door in the middle
of the floor, from which a ladder led down into the small, dark hole. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | At The Earth`s Core | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I
do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you
wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine
when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous
ignorance, I gaily narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the
Royal Geological Society on the occasion of my last
trip to London. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 8 | Author: | Burnett, Frances Hodgson | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Secret Garden | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle
everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was
true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair
and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she
had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father
had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and
ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to
parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at
all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was
made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the
child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly
little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a
sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never
remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the
other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in
everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her
crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a
little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to
read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months,
and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a
shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to
know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Author: | Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Way to Peace | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ATHALIA HALL stopped to get her breath and look back over the road climbing steeply up
from the covered bridge. It was a little after five, and the delicate air of dawn was full
of wood and pasture scents — the sweetness of bay and the freshness of
dew-drenched leaves. In the valley night still hung like gauze under the trees, but the
top of the hill was glittering with sunshine. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 14 | Author: | Irving, Washington | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Tour on the Prairies. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HAVING, since my return to the United States, made a wide and varied tour, for
the gratification of my curiosity, it has been supposed that I did it for the
purpose of writing a book; and it has more than once been intimated in the
papers, that such a work was actually in the press, containing scenes and
sketches of the Far West. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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