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  • Ozma of Oz

    L. Frank Baum

    eBook (Passerino Editore, July 5, 2016)
    "Ozma of Oz: A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, Billina the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein" published on July 30, 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.Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919), better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
  • What Christmas is as we Grow Older

    Charles Dickens

    eBook (Passerino, Nov. 22, 2017)
    "What Christmas is as we Grow Older" is a Christmas novella by Charles Dickens.Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.
  • Protagoras

    Plato

    eBook (Passerino Editore, July 23, 2017)
    Protagoras is a dialogue by Plato.Plato (424/423[b] – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Translated by Benjamin Jowett (1817 – 1893)
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself

    Harriet Jacobs

    eBook (Passerino, Aug. 26, 2019)
    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself is an autobiography by Harriet Ann Jacobs, a young mother and fugitive slave, published in 1861 by L. Maria Child, who edited the book for its author. Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs's life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself and for her children. Jacobs contributed to the genre of slave narrative by using the techniques of sentimental novels "to address race and gender issues." She explores the struggles and sexual abuse that female slaves faced on plantations as well as their efforts to practice motherhood and protect their children when their children might be sold away. In the book, Jacobs addresses white Northern women who fail to comprehend the evils of slavery. She makes direct appeals to their humanity to expand their knowledge and influence their thoughts about slavery as an institution.Harriet Ann Jacobs (February 11, 1813 – March 7, 1897) was an African-American writer who escaped from slavery and was later freed. She became an abolitionist speaker and reformer.
  • The Four Million

    O. Henry

    eBook (Passerino, May 28, 2019)
    "The Four Million" is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry originally released in 1906. There are twenty-five stories of various lengths including several of his best known works such as "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Cop and the Anthem".The book's title refers to the then population of New York City where many of the stories are set. William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910), better known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise endings.
  • Pinocchio in Africa

    Eugenio Cherubini

    (Passerino, Nov. 1, 2019)
    Pinocchio goes to Africa after visiting a circus in which all the animals are costumed Africans, and manages to get himself named emperor.Translated from the Italian of Cherubini by Angelo Patri.Pinocchio is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan village. He was created as a wooden puppet but he dreams of becoming a real boy. He is notably characterized for his frequent tendency to lie, which causes his nose to grow.Pinocchio is a cultural icon. He is one of the most reimagined characters in children's literature. His story has been adapted into other media, notably the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio.
  • The Yellow Wallpaper

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    eBook (Passerino, Oct. 28, 2017)
    "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a short story by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine.Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.
  • Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities

    Andrew Lang

    eBook (Passerino, Nov. 28, 2017)
    "Tales of Troy" recounts the Homeric legends of the Iliad and the Odyssey.Andrew Lang (31 March 1844 – 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic.
  • The Alchemist

    Ben Jonson

    eBook (Passerino, May 31, 2019)
    "The Alchemist" is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge considered it had one of the three most perfect plots in literature. The play's clever fulfilment of the classical unities and vivid depiction of human folly have made it one of the few Renaissance plays (except the works of Shakespeare) with a continuing life on stage (except for a period of neglect during the Victorian era).Benjamin Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637[2]) was an English playwright and poet, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays Every Man in His Humour (1598), Volpone, or The Fox (c. 1606), The Alchemist (1610) and Bartholomew Fair (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I.
  • The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

    James Hogg

    eBook (Passerino, Feb. 12, 2020)
    The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action of the novel is located in a historically definable Scotland with accurately observed settings, and simultaneously implies a pseudo-Christian world of angels, devils, and demonic possession. The narrative is set against the antinomian societal structure flourishing in the borders of Scotland in Hogg's day.James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood's Magazine. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Reliques (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823).
  • The Romance of Lust

    William Lazenby

    eBook (Passerino, Nov. 13, 2017)
    "The Romance of Lust" is a Victorian erotic novel written anonymously in four volumes during the years 1873–1876 and published by William Lazenby. William Lazenby (died circa 1888) was an English publisher of pornography active in the 1870s and 1880s.
  • Antic Hay

    Aldous Huxley

    eBook (Passerino, Oct. 28, 2019)
    Antic Hay is a comic novel by Aldous Huxley, published in 1923. The story takes place in London, and depicts the aimless or self-absorbed cultural elite in the sad and turbulent times following the end of World War I.Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.He wrote nearly fifty booksβ€”both novels and non-fiction worksβ€”as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.