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L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz - classic fiction
Did you know this wonderful story became a success after it became a play?
About this book:
The
Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum
and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George
M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1900, it has since been
reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz,
which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the
well-known 1939 film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures
of a young girl named Dorothy in the Land of Oz, after being swept
away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The novel is one of the
best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely
translated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway
musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's
writing thirteen more Oz books.
Dorothy is
a young orphaned girl raised by her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in the
bleak landscape of a Kansas farm. She has a little black dog Toto,
who is her sole source of happiness on the dry, gray prairies. One
day the farmhouse, with Dorothy and Toto inside, is caught up in a
cyclone and deposited in a field in Munchkin Country, the eastern
quadrant of the Land of Oz. The falling house kills the evil ruler of
the Munchkins, the Wicked Witch of the East.
The Good
Witch of the North comes with the Munchkins to greet Dorothy and
gives Dorothy the Silver Shoes (believed to have magical properties)
that the Wicked Witch had been wearing when she was killed. In order
to return to Kansas, the Good Witch of the North tells Dorothy that
she will have to go to the "Emerald City" or "City of
Emeralds" and ask the Wizard of Oz to help her. Before she
leaves, the Good Witch of the North kisses her on the forehead,
giving her magical protection from trouble.
On her way
down the road of yellow bricks, Dorothy frees the Scarecrow from the
pole he is hanging on, restores the movements of the rusted Tin
Woodman with an oil can, and encourages them and the Cowardly Lion to
journey with her and Toto to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow wants to
get a brain, the Tin Woodman a heart, and the Cowardly Lion, courage.
All four of the travelers believe that the Wizard can solve their
troubles. The party finds many adventures on their journey together,
including overcoming obstacles such as narrow pieces of the yellow
brick road, vicious Kalidahs, a river, and the Deadly Poppies.
When the
travelers arrive at the Emerald City, they are asked to wear green
spectacles by the Guardian of the Gates as long as they remain in the
city. The four are the first to ever successfully meet with the
Wizard. When each traveler meets with the Wizard, he appears each
time as someone or something different. To Dorothy, the Wizard is a
giant head; the Scarecrow sees a beautiful woman; the Tin Woodman
sees a terrible beast; the Cowardly Lion sees a ball of fire. The
Wizard agrees to help each of them—but only if one of them kills
the Wicked Witch of the West who rules over the western Winkie
Country. The Guardian of the Gates warns them that no one has ever
managed to harm the very cunning and cruel Wicked Witch... (source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Lyman Frank
Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of
children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a
host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost"
novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of
scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts
to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated
such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality,
laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of
Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the
Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's
Nieces at Work). (source: Wikipedia)
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Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace - classic fiction
Another super-long classic makes the "Best Books of All Time" list.
About this book:
War and Peace is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in 1869. The work is epic in scale and is regarded as one of the most important works of world literature. It is considered Tolstoy's finest literary achievement, along with his other major prose work Anna Karenina (1873–1877).
Tolstoy himself, somewhat enigmatically, said of
War and Peace that it was "not a novel, even less is it a poem,
and still less a historical chronicle". Large sections of the
work, especially in the later chapters, are philosophical discussion
rather than narrative. He went on to elaborate that the best Russian
literature does not conform to standard norms and hence hesitated to
call War and Peace a novel. (Instead, Tolstoy regarded Anna Karenina
as his first true novel.)
The novel begins in July 1805 in Saint Petersburg,
at a soirée given by Anna Pavlovna Scherer—the maid of honour and
confidante to the queen mother Maria Feodorovna. Many of the main
characters and aristocratic families in the novel are introduced as
they enter Anna Pavlovna's salon. Pierre (Pyotr Kirilovich) Bezukhov
is the illegitimate son of a wealthy count, an elderly man who is
dying after a series of strokes. Pierre is about to become embroiled
in a struggle for his inheritance. Educated abroad at his father's
expense following his mother's death, Pierre is essentially
kindhearted, but socially awkward, and owing in part to his open,
benevolent nature, finds it difficult to integrate into Petersburg
society. It is known to everyone at the soirée that Pierre is his
father's favorite of all the old count’s illegitimate children.
Also attending the soireé is Pierre's friend, the
intelligent and sardonic Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky,
husband of Lise, the charming society favourite. Finding Petersburg
society unctuous and disillusioned with married life after
discovering his wife is empty and superficial, Prince Andrei makes
the fateful choice to be an aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail
Ilarionovich Kutuzov in the coming war against Napoleon.
The plot moves to Moscow, Russia's ancient city
and former capital, contrasting its provincial, more Russian ways to
the highly mannered society of Petersburg. The Rostov family are
introduced. Count Ilya Andreyevich Rostov has four adolescent
children. Thirteen-year-old Natasha (Natalia Ilyinichna) believes
herself in love with Boris Drubetskoy, a disciplined young man who is
about to join the army as an officer. Twenty-year-old Nikolai Ilyich
pledges his love to Sonya (Sofia Alexandrovna), his fifteen-year-old
cousin, an orphan who has been brought up by the Rostovs. The eldest
child of the Rostov family, Vera Ilyinichna, is cold and somewhat
haughty but has a good prospective marriage in a Russian-German
officer, Adolf Karlovich Berg. Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) is nine and the
youngest of the Rostov family; like his brother, he is impetuous and
eager to join the army when of age. The heads of the family, Count
Ilya Rostov and Countess Natalya Rostova, are an affectionate couple
but forever worried about their disordered finances.
At Bald Hills, the Bolkonskys' country estate,
Prince Andrei departs for war and leaves his terrified, pregnant wife
Lise with his eccentric father Prince Nikolai Andreyevich Bolkonsky
and devoutly religious sister Maria Nikolayevna
Bolkonskaya...
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (9 September [O.S. 28 August] 1828 – 20 November [O.S. 7 November] 1910), also known as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical
teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him
in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and
anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in
such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a
profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas
Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
(source: Wikipedia)
(source: Wikipedia)
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Robert Lewis Stevenson's Treasure Island - classic fiction
Why this rousing adventure is also one of the most filmed and produced of all the best books...
About this book:
Treasure
Island is an adventure novel by British author Robert Louis
Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".
First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally
serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881–82
under the title Treasure Island or, the mutiny of the Hispaniola with
Stevenson adopting the pseudonym Captain George North.
Traditionally
considered a coming-of-age story, Treasure Island is an adventure
tale known for its atmosphere, characters and action, and also as a
wry commentary on the ambiguity of morality — as seen in Long John
Silver — unusual for children's literature now and then. It is one
of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. The influence of
Treasure Island on popular perceptions of pirates is enormous,
including treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the
Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen carrying parrots
on their shoulders.
James "Jim"
Hawkins is the young son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn. An
old drunken seaman named Billy Bones becomes a long-term lodger at
the inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. Jim
quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly
dreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg.
Some months
later, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Their
meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees and Bones suffers a stroke.
While Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of
the late notorious pirate, Captain Flint, and that his old crewmates
want Bones' sea chest. Some time later, another of Bones' crew mates,
a blind man named Pew, appears at the inn and forces Jim to lead him
to Bones. Pew gives Bones a paper. After Pew leaves, Bones opens the
paper to discover it is marked with the Black Spot, a pirate summons,
with the warning that he has until ten o'clock to meet their demands.
Bones drops dead of apoplexy (in this context, a stroke) on the spot.
Jim and his
mother open Bones' sea chest to collect the amount due to them for
Bones' room and board, but before they can count out the money that
they are owed, they hear pirates approaching the inn and are forced
to flee and hide, Jim taking with him a mysterious oilskin packet
from the chest. The pirates, led by Pew, find the sea chest and the
money, but are frustrated that there is no sign of "Flint's
fist". Customs men approach and the pirates escape to their
vessel (all except for Pew, who is accidentally run down and killed
by the agents' horses).
Jim takes
the mysterious oilskin packet to Dr. Livesey, as he is a "gentleman
and a magistrate", and he, Squire Trelawney and Jim Hawkins
examine it together, finding it contains a logbook detailing the
treasure looted during Captain Flint's career, and a detailed map of
an island with the location of Flint's treasure marked on it...
(source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Robert
Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a
Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous
works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde.
A literary
celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most
translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many
other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Arthur
Conan Doyle, Cesare Pavese, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack
London, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who
said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the
point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins." (source:
Wikipedia)
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H. G. Well's Time Machine - classic fiction
How does Sci-Fi have only two on the top best books list?
About this book:
The Time
Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in
1895 and later adapted into two feature films of the same name, as
well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book
adaptations. It indirectly inspired many more works of fiction in
many media. This story is generally credited with the popularisation
of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator
to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time machine",
coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.
This work is an early example of the Dying Earth subgenre.
The book's
protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in
Richmond, Surrey, identified by a narrator simply as the Time
Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his
weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his
demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it.
He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person,
and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable
tale, becoming the new narrator.
In the new
narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that
takes him to 802,701 A.D., where he meets the Eloi, a society of
small, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities
within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing
no work and having a frugivorous diet. His efforts to communicate
with them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and
he speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result
of humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently
evolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect
are no longer advantageous to survival.
Returning
to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find
his time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been
dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy
doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. (source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Herbert
George "H. G." Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946)
was an English writer, now best known for his work in the science
fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres,
including contemporary novels, history, politics and social
commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. Wells is
one person sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction",
as are Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback. His most notable science
fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The
Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau. (source: Wikipedia)
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Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Affair at Styles - classic fiction
Why Poirot doe only show once in the top best books list from all the 87 times his character appeared in stories?
About this book:
The
Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie.
It was written in the middle of World War I, in 1916, and first
published by John Lane in the United States in October 1920.
Styles was
Christie's first published novel, introducing Hercule Poirot,
InspectorJapp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot is described as "a
dear little man", "an extraordinary looking little man"
and a "quaint dandyfied little man".
The novel
is set in England at Styles Court, an Essex country manor (also the
setting of Curtain, Poirot's last case). Upon her husband's death,
the wealthy widow, Emily Cavendish, inherited a life estate in Styles
as well as the outright inheritance of the larger part of the late Mr
Cavendish's income. Mrs Cavendish became Mrs Inglethorp upon her
recent remarriage to a much younger man, Alfred Inglethorp. Emily's
two stepsons, John and Lawrence Cavendish, as well as John's wife
Mary and several other people, also live at Styles. John Cavendish is
the vested remainderman of Styles; that is, the property will pass to
him automatically upon his stepmother's decease, as per his late
father's will. Lawrence Cavendish would also come into a considerable
sum of money. The income left to Mrs Inglethorp by her late husband
would be distributed according to Mrs Inglethorp's own will, which
she changed at least once per year. If she had not changed her will
since her marriage this would go to her husband.
Late one
night, the residents of Styles wake to find Emily Inglethorp dying of
what proves to be strychnine poisoning. Hastings, a houseguest,
enlists the help of his friend Hercule Poirot, who is staying in the
nearby village, Styles St Mary. Poirot pieces together events
surrounding the murder. On the day she was killed, Mrs Inglethorp was
overheard arguing with someone, most likely either her husband,
Alfred, or her stepson, John. Afterwards, she seemed quite distressed
and, apparently, made a new will — which no one can find. She ate
little at dinner and retired early to her room with her document
case. The case was later forced open by someone and a document
removed. Alfred Inglethorp left Styles earlier in the evening and
stayed overnight in the nearby village, so was not present when the
poisoning occurred. No one knows exactly when or how the strychnine
was administered to Mrs Inglethorp... (source: Wikipedia)
About the author:
Dame Agatha
Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (born Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12
January 1976) was an English crime writer of novels, short stories,
and plays. She also wrote six romances under the name Mary
Westmacott, but she is best remembered for the 66 detective novels
and more than 15 short story collections she wrote under her own
name, most of which revolve around the investigations of such
characters as Hercule Poirot, Miss Jane Marple and Tommy and
Tuppence. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, The
Mousetrap. (source: Wikipedia)
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A. Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles
Where classic fiction introduces immortal characters.
About this book:
The Hound
of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels written by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to
April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West
Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the
legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin.
Sherlock Holmes and his companion Doctor Watson investigate the case.
This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in
"The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the
Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
Sir Charles
Baskerville, Bart, is found dead on the grounds of his country house,
Baskerville Hall. The cause is ascribed to a heart attack. Fearing
for the safety of Sir Charles's nephew and the only known heir, Sir
Henry Baskerville, coming from Toronto, Canada to claim his
inheritance, Dr James Mortimer travels to London and asks Sherlock
Holmes for help.
Mortimer
explains that the Baskerville family is afflicted by a curse.
According to an old account, said to have been written in 1742 and
describing events which had occurred a century earlier still, during
the English Civil War, Hugo Baskerville was infatuated with a
farmer's daughter. He kidnapped her and imprisoned her in his
bedroom. She escaped and the furious Baskerville offered his soul to
the devil if he could recapture her. Aided by friends, he pursued the
girl onto the desolate moor. Baskerville and his victim were found
dead. She had died from fright, but a giant spectral hound stood
guard over Baskerville's body. The hound tore out Baskerville's
throat, then vanished into the night.
Sir Charles
Baskerville had become fearful of the legendary curse and its
hellhound. Mortimer decided that Sir Charles had been waiting for
someone when he died. His face was contorted in a ghastly expression,
while his footprints suggested that he was running away from
something. The elderly man's heart wasn't strong, and he had planned
to go to London the very next day. Mortimer says he had seen the
footprints of a "gigantic hound" near Sir Charles's body,
nothing was revealed at the inquest...
(source:
Wikipedia)
About the author:
Sir Arthur
Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish
physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories
about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered
milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for
writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented,
Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works
include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry,
non-fiction, and historical novels.
(source:
Wikipedia)
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Dante's Divine Comedy - classic fiction
How a super-long poem survived the Dark Ages to be a best book of all time.
About the Story:
The poem is written in the first person, and tells
of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from
the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the
spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and
Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven.
Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and
admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love
tradition, which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work La Vita
Nuova.
The structure of the three realms follows a common
numerical pattern of 9 plus 1, for a total of 10: 9 circles of the
Inferno, followed by Lucifer contained at its bottom; 9 rings of
Mount Purgatory, followed by the Garden of Eden crowning its summit;
and the 9 celestial bodies of Paradiso, followed by the Empyrean
containing the very essence of God. Within each group of 9, 7
elements correspond to a specific moral scheme, subdivided into three
subcategories, while 2 others of greater particularity are added to
total nine. For example, the seven deadly sins of the Catholic Church
that are cleansed in Purgatory are joined by special realms for the
Late repentant and the excommunicated by the church. The core seven
sins within Purgatory correspond to a moral scheme of love perverted,
subdivided into three groups corresponding to excessive love (Lust,
Gluttony, Greed), deficient love (Sloth), and malicious love (Wrath,
Envy, Pride).
(Source: Wikipedia)
About the Author:
Durante degli Alighieri, simply referred to as Dante (c. 1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.
In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ("the
Supreme Poet") or just il Poeta. He, Petrarch and Boccaccio are
also known as "the three fountains" or "the three
crowns". Dante is also called the "Father of the Italian
language".
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