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Dorothy Gale travels to the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. Dorothy quickly teams up with a cowardly lion, a scarecrow and a tin man, and they set out on a quest to find the Wizard of Oz.

My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative, discussing the transition from bondage to liberty. Following this liberation, Frederick Douglass went on to become a prominent abolitionist, speaker, author, and publisher.

The Importance of Being Earnest is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations. The major themes are the triviality of marriage, and the satire of Victorian ways.

Middlemarch follows the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Bulstrode. Significant themes include the status of women, idealism, and education.

The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes includes A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear. Included are illustrations by Sidney Paget, George Hutchinson, James Greig & Charles Kerr.

The novel traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.

Margaret Hale witnesses the brutal world wrought by the Industrial Revolution seeing employers and workers clashing. Sympathetic to the poor, she clashes with John Thornton: a nouveau riche cotton-mill owner who is contemptuous of his workers.

The Scarlet Letter is set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649. It tells the story of Hester Prynne who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young woman, Isabel Archer, who in affronting her destiny, finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large sum of money and becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.

At the tender age of fifteen Catherine has yet to find her prince in disguise. With many challenges in her way, romance stands at the ready to right the wrongs of self-interest, deception, and greed.