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Project Gutenberg
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English
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Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he "never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort." A "net-work of wires soon ran throughout the house". He loses track of the elaborately interconnected wires, and trying to get a cardboard house to light up, he "experimented in a rather haphazard fashion, connecting this and that wire blindly and by guesswork, in the hope that he would strike the right combination."...
Author
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Telltale Weekly
Language
English
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You haven't a penny in the world, but you have a kingdom. There are many rich women who would be glad to give their wealth in exchange for a queen's coronet—even if the king is but a child. So we have decided to advertise that the one who bids the highest shall become the queen of Quok.
Two short fables by the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. "They are not too serious in purpose," wrote Baum, "but aim to amuse and entertain,
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Un ciclón azota Kansas y arrastra a Dorothy y a su perrito Toto a la mágica Tierra de Oz, donde las bestias salvajes hablan, los zapatos de plata tienen poderes fantásticos y las brujas buenas ofrecen protección con un simple beso. Pero también hay brujas malvadas y Dorothy se ha ganado la enemistad de una de ellas. En su camino conocerá al Espantapájaros, al Leñador de Hojalata y al León Cobarde, juntos afrontarán muchos peligros mientras...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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American Fairy Tales is the title of a collection of twelve fantasy stories by L. Frank Baum, published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Company, the firm that issued The Wonderful Wizard of Oz the previous year. The twelve stories were published in this order in the first edition. "The Box of Robbers." "The Glass Dog." "The Queen of Quok." "The Girl Who Owned a Bear." "The Enchanted Types." "The Laughing Hippopotamus." "The Magic Bon Bons." "The Capture...
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