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  Tik-Tok of Oz [The Wizard of Oz...

  L. Frank Baum, Phil Chenert

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  Ann Soforth, a rival queen from the land of Oogaboo, raises an army to conquer Oz. Newcomers Betsy Bobbin and her loyal mule, Hank, team up with the Shaggy Man, Ozga, Polychrome, the rainbow’s daughter, and Tik-Tok to thwart Queen Ann and her army of 17 men.

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  The Merchant of Venice

  William Shakespeare

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  William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice was probably written between 1596 and 1598, and was printed with the comedies in the First Folio of 1623. Bassanio, an impoverished gentleman, uses the credit of his friend, the merchant Antonio, to borrow money from a wealthy Jew, Shylock. Antonio pledges to pay Shylock a pound of flesh if he defaults on the loan, which Bassanio will use to woo a rich heiress, Portia. A subplot concerns the elopement of Shylock's daughter Jessica with a Christian, Bassanio's friend Lorenzo. In its focus on love and marriage, the play shares certain concerns with Shakespeare's other comedies. Yet its depiction of the tensions between Jews and Christians in early modern Venice - and its highly dramatic trial scene in Act 4 - create darker currents in the play.

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  Barry Lyndon - The Lost Manuscript

  William Makepeace Thackeray

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  Barry Lyndon is a picaresque novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, first published as a serial in Fraser's Magazine in 1844, about a member of the Irish gentry trying to become a member of the English aristocracy. Thackeray, who based the novel on the life and exploits of the Anglo-Irish rake and fortune-hunter Andrew Robinson Stoney, later reissued it under the title The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. The novel is narrated by Lyndon himself, who functions as a quintessentially unreliable narrator. The novel was adapted by Stanley Kubrick into his 1975 film Barry Lyndon.

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  How the Two Ivans Quarrelled...

  Nikolai Gogol

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  Nikolai Gogol was one of the first to use the technique of the grotesque. According to Viktor Shklovsky, Gogol's strange style of writing resembles the "ostranenie" technique of defamiliarization. His early works, such as Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, were influenced by his Ukrainian upbringing, Ukrainian culture and folklore.HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED: A fine pelisse has Ivan Ivanovitch! splendid! And what lambskin! deuce take it, what lambskin! blue-black with silver lights. I'll forfeit, I know not what, if you find any one else owning such a one. Look at it, for heaven's sake, especially when he stands talking with any one!

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  H P Lovecraft The Complete...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  CONTENTS:01. The Nameless City02. The Festival03. The Colour Out of Space05. The Call of Cthulhu08-17. The Dunwich Horror18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness26-27. The Dreams in the Witch House28.The Haunter of the Dark29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth34.Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"35-42. The Shadow Out of Time43-54. At the Mountains of Madness55-80.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward81. Azathoth82. Beyond the Wall of Sleep83. Celephaïs84. Cool Air85. Dagon86. Ex Oblivione87-88. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family89. From Beyond90. He91-96. Herbert West-Reanimator97. Hypnos98. In the Vault99. Memory100. Nyarlathotep101. Pickman's Model102. The BookThe Cats of Ulthar104. The Descendant105. The Doom That Came to Sarnath106-111. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath112. The Evil Clergyman113. The Horror at Red Hook120-121.The Hound122-125. The Lurking Fear126. The Moon-Bog127. The Music of Erich Zann128. The Other Gods129. The Outsider130. The Picture in the House131. The Quest of Iranon132. The Rats in the Walls133-137. The Shunned House138. The Silver Key139. The Statement of Randolph Carter140. The Strange High House in the Mist141. The Street142. The Terrible Old Man143-147. The Thing on the Doorstep148. The Tomb149. The Transition of Juan Romero150. The Tree151. The Unnamable152. The White Ship153. What the Moon Brings154. Polaris155. The Very Old Folk156. Ibid157 Old Bugs158-164. Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl165. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson166. The History of the Necronomicon

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  My Man Jeeves

  P. G. Wodehouse

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  The first book in renowned author P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves series, My Man Jeeves is a classic, humorous novel from one of the 20th century’s most widely read humorists. 
  My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster.

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