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The seventh book in the Oz series for children is The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Ojo, sometimes known as Ojo the Unlucky, lives in squalor in the Munchkin Country of Oz's forests with his sarcastic uncle Unc Nunkie. They go to see their neighbor Dr. Pipt, who has been working on making the mystical Powder of Life for six years and is ready to finish. After a number of misadventures, they come upon a large quadruple that consents to give them three hairs off its tail. They carry the Woozy with them since they cannot get rid of the hair.Along the journey, they encounter Mr. Yoop, a 21-foot-tall man-eating behemoth, Jack Pumpkinhead, and the entertaining but unpleasant Tottenhots. The Shaggy Man guides them to the Emerald City where they meet Princess Ozma but informs Ojo that it is against the law to pluck a six-leaved clover there.Dr. Pipt has lost his magical abilities, according to Ozma, who informs the group that he has been using magic outside the law. Ojo is given a new home close to the Emerald City by the Tin Woodsman, who refers to him as ""Ojo the Lucky.""

L. Frank Baum and John R. Neill's fantasy book The Sea Fairies is for young readers. A little child named Mayre Griffiths, also known as Trot, resides on the southern Californian coast. Cap'n Bill Weedles, a former sailor with a wooden leg, is her regular friend and her father is the skipper of a sailing schooner. Trot expresses a desire to see a mermaid one day, and the next day, her dream is accomplished after being overheard.One of the very few completely unredeemable, pure-evil characters in Baum's novels, Zog the Magician is one of the monsters Trot and Cap'n Bill face. He is a grotesque hybrid of a man, an animal, and a fish. They see incredible sights in the kingdom of Queen Aquarine and King Anko, including an embarrassed octopus who discovers he is the emblem of the Standard Oil Company. The two main characters learn that many sailors who were believed to have drowned were really seized and sold into slavery by Zog.The dominant characters in Oz Baum's Oz and his fantasy tales, in particular, are strong, morally upright women; the stereotype of the father figure is barely present. This general pattern is broken only by The Sea Fairies, who describe King Anko, a sea serpent, as being the closest thing to a strong, loving father figure.

The stage drama and book No Thoroughfare, by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, were both published in December 1867. No Thoroughfare: A Drama: In Five Acts was a theatre drama written in 1867 by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins. Previously, the two had worked together on the play The Frozen Deep. Dickens' final stage production was this one; he passed away in June 1870. On December 26, 1867, the drama had its premiere at the Adelphi Theatre. The first edition of Dickens' book No Thoroughfare appeared in the Christmas issue of his magazine All the Year Round in 1867. Other books from Dickens's mature writings, like Little Dorrit (1857) and Our Mutual Friend, have similar themes to this one (1865). An early instance of commercial merchandising, the story's publication in All The Year Round promoted both the play to those who had read the book and the story to those who were aware of the theatrical production. The book's chapters, which are referred to as "acts," correspond to the scenes in the play. The narrative includes skillfully worded descriptions, diverse and well-drawn people, unsettling and exotic settings, mystery, partially revealed identities, near-death experiences, romance, and the ultimate triumph of Good over Evil.

L. Frank Baum, well known for creating the Land of Oz, wrote the young adult novel Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross in 1915. It is the tenth and last book in Baum's Aunt Jane's Nieces series for teenage girls, which is his second-greatest literary success (after the Oz books themselves). Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross was published under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne," one of Baum's many aliases, just like the other works in the series. The novel is notable in Baum's canon because it articulates his opinions and sentiments towards World War I. An unusual but not exceptional approach for books in the series was to include an opening letter from "Edith Van Dyne" in the book. (There is also an author's introduction in the second book, Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad.) The Siege of Maubeuge's end and the German victory are described in a newspaper article that Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and their uncle John Merrick is reading at the beginning of the book on September 7, 1914. The war news deeply affects both of the girls, but Beth is more committed to the French cause.

Neewa, a black bear cub, and Miki, a puppy, are brutally abandoned and forced to fend for themselves in the harsh reality of the Canadian wilderness. They quickly develop an unexpected but enduring connection. Neewa and Miki set out on an adventure while traveling together because they can only rely on one another. Their relationship deepens as they travel together through the varying seasons. Neewa and Miki escape life-threatening circumstances, make new friends, and witness a heartwarming romance while making insightful, astute, and engaging observations on the people and animals they encounter. Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood is a captivating action-adventure novel that is chock-full of surprise and emotion. This riveting tale offers a provocative look at nature and human behavior thanks to great character development and the distinct viewpoint of two young animals. Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure Under the Open Stars has engaging topics and clear, readable English that make it suited for readers of all ages. More than a century after it was first published, the story still holds readers' attention.

The fourteenth book in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series is titled Glinda of Oz. To stop a conflict between the Skeezers and the Flatheads, two local powers, Princess Ozma and Dorothy, journey to a remote area of the Land of Oz. In spite of Ozma and Dorothy, the two tribes' chiefs remain adamant and ready to war. Dorothy and Ozma discover themselves imprisoned on the Skeezers' glass-covered island, which has been magically sunk to the bottom of its lake, unable to stop the conflict. The warlike queen Coo-ee-oh, who is keeping them captive and the only one who knows how to raise the island back to the surface of the lake, loses the battle and transforms into a swan, forgetting all her magic in the process, trapping the inhabitants of the island, including Ozma and Dorothy, at the bottom of the lake. This makes their situation worse. Glinda is called upon by Ozma and Dorothy. With the aid of numerous magicians and magical helpers, she must discover a means to lift the island back to the lake's surface and free its residents.

The fifth book in the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, authored by L. Frank Baum under the pen name ""Edith Van Dyne,"" is titled Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West. In the book, Beth de Graf and Patsy Doyle accidentally find themselves on the set of a film that features a collapsing building. They've unknowingly become extras in a film, which horrifies Beth. The perils of operating collapsing plants are depicted in the movie through a narrative. The daughter of the factory owner is killed by a crumbling wall in the movie. They meet Maud and Flo Stanton, guests of their own Aunt Jane, and stay at the same hotel. Beth is sure that movies may teach kids valuable lessons. A guitarist named Fred A. Colby, who has never tried a case but is determined to succeed, is hired by John Merrick.The Stanton and Jones characters are back in the subsequent and last installment of the Aunt Jane's Nieces series. Baum also uses name-dropping by having Uncle John make allusions to writers of fairytales whose works have been adapted for the big screen. Additionally, it features Edith Van Dyne's lone self-proclamation in the series, in which she claims that her mother used to tell her that people with beauty had nothing else since she wasn't a lovely girl.

The second of John Buchan's five books with the Richard Hannay character is titled Greenmantle. London's Hodder & Stoughton published it for the first time in 1916. The other Hannay book set during the Great War is Mr. Standfast (1919). The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), Hannay's earliest and best-known adventure, takes place in the years just before the war. Hannay travels through dangerous enemy territory to see his friend Sandy in Constantinople after being asked to look into reports of an insurrection in the Muslim world. Once there, he and his companions must foil German efforts to exploit religion as a weapon of victory, which will culminate in the battle of Erzurum. Hannay and his friend Sandy are in the book's opening scene recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Loos in November 1915. Senior intelligence officer Sir Walter Bullivant summons Hannay to the Foreign Office. Bullivant informs Hannay on the Middle Eastern political situation, implying that the Germans and their Turkish allies are planning to incite a Muslim rebellion that will destabilize the region as well as India and North Africa. Robert Baden-Powell and the Russian imperial family both read the book when it was first released as they awaited the outcome of the revolution in 1917.

The 1937 American Technicolor lumberjack drama film God's Country and the Woman was directed by William Keighley and written by Norman Reilly Raine. Starring in the movie are George Brent, Joe King, Beverly Roberts, Barton MacLane, Robert Barrat, and Alan Hale, Sr. Warner Bros. released the movie on January 16, 1937, based on James Oliver Curwood's God's Country and the Woman, published in 1915. The first full-color, full-length movie by Warner Brothers. filmed on location in Washington state, close to Mount St. Helens. The Russett Company and Barton Lumber Company are rival lumber businesses that compete for lumber in the Northwest. In the Northwest's forest, a lumberjack has his sights set on a woman. Regarding the Technicolor, Greene points out that there are some "quite stunning views of trees carving enormous arcs against the sky as they fall," but he also observes that the "rapid cutting and quick dissolves corroborate the assumption that color will push the film back technically twelve years." In The Sunday Times, Sydney Carroll reviewed the movie critically and mainly objected to the melancholy Technicolor technologies' brutal handling of the arboreal flora. Greene also sarcastically observed the reactions of more seasoned critics and highlighted paragraphs from Sydney Carroll's review of the movie.

Fyodor Dostoevsky's story Notes from Underground was initially presented in the 1864 issue of Epoch. It is a first-person account that takes the form of a "confession." Dostoevsky initially published the piece in Epoch under the title "A Confession." The novella presents itself as an excerpt from the memoirs of a bitter, reclusive, unidentified narrator who lives in St. Petersburg and is a retired civil official (sometimes referred to as the Underground Man by critics). Although the novella's first section is written in the style of a monologue, the narrator's dialogue with the reader is sharply dialogized. In the Underground Man's confession, "there is literally not a single nomologically firm, the undissociated word," according to Mikhail Bakhtin. Every word spoken by The Underground Man anticipates another's, with whom he engages in an obsessive mental debate. The Underground Man criticizes modern Russian philosophy, particularly What Is to Be Done by Nikolay Chernyshevsky. The work might be seen as an attack and a rebellion against determinism, which holds that everything, including human individuality and volition, can be boiled down to natural laws, scientific principles, and mathematical formulae. There are two sections to the novella.

The eighth book in L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series is titled Tik-Tok of Oz. In order to conquer Oz, Queen Ann Soforth of Oogaboo, a tiny kingdom cut off from the rest of Winkie Country in Oz, decides to build an army. Queen Ann and her army march out of Oz after Glinda the Good, the land's guardian, magically rearranges the road across the land. The Shaggy Man plunges through the greenhouse's ceiling and uses his Love Magnet to woo the Gardener into saving everyone's lives. The Shaggy Man, Betsy, Hank, Ozga, and Polychrome battle Queen Ann and her troops. When they invade the Nome Kingdom, the Shaggy Man, Queen Ann, and the Army of Oogaboo tumble into the Slimy Cave. The group then reaches the realm of the Great Jinjin, an immortal known by the name Tititi-Hoochoo. When Quox breaks the lock on the Nome King's neck, six eggs are released, forcing the Nome King to flee his realm. In the heart of the Forest, the Shaggy Man runs into his brother. The former Nome King cursed the brother with an ugly enchantment.Ozga, a fairy who was once a maid, tries to break the curse first after Betsy, a mortal maid, fails. The man's brother is finally brought back to life by the fairy Polychrome's kiss.

The book covers Shaw's career as a dramatist and critic in some detail, including his puritanical resistance to Shakespeare. This biography of George Bernard Shaw's writings and political beliefs was written by G. K. Chesterton, who was in the perfect position to do it. Although he was a close friend, he vehemently opposed Shaw's progressive socialism. His analysis of Shaw retains the same lightness of touch and wit as his earlier writings. The book offers an insightful and up-to-date analysis of Shaw's politics and philosophy, as well as the progressive orthodoxy that emerged in the 20th century as a result. The book serves as a fantastic introduction to Shaw's works and the culture of the time they were produced. The majority of individuals either claim to agree with Bernard Shaw or claim to not comprehend him. One and only G. K. Chesterton could comprehend him. The book works because Bernard Shaw is both quick-witted and verbose. A writer who has a quick mind for ideas could end up working more slowly than necessary. Every allusion or analogy requires him to pause and reiterate the historical similarities. The man's path is blocked by the very jungle of his ideas. The play must come before the introduction due to inevitable artistic necessity.

The fifteenth volume in the Oz series and the first to be written following L. Frank Baum's passing is The Royal Book of Oz (1921). When Professor Woggle-bug informs the Scarecrow that he has no family, he becomes distraught and returns to the cornfield where Dorothy Gale discovered him to look for his ""roots."" He doesn't come back, so Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion go in search of him. They encounter Sir Hokus of Pokes, an aged knight. They also encounter the Comfortable Camel and the Doubtful Dromedary. They go on a number of strange experiences while looking for the Scarecrow.In this book, the Scarecrow learns that he formerly lived as a person. He was the ruler of the Silver Islands, a nation made up of people that resemble Chinese people and situated far below the Munchkin area of Oz. The spirit of the changed Emperor entered the scarecrow's body when the farmer set him on the beanpole, bringing him to life.The Yellow Knight of Oz has Sir Hokus, the Comfy Camel, and the Doubtful Dromedary as its main protagonists. Once at the Silver Islands, Dorothy and her group rescue the Scarecrow from the locals and take him back to the Emerald City. The Scarecrow makes the decision to go back to Oz and carry on with his carefree life there.

A former captain in the Royal Navy named Frederick Marryat wrote the 1836 book Mr. Midshipman Easy. The Napoleonic Wars, in which Marryat personally distinguished himself, are when the book is set. Despite his preconceptions, the main character Easy grows into a capable officer in the course of the narrative. After his mother passes away, Easy finds his father to be absolutely insane when he gets home. The device Easy Senior created to shrink or enlarge phrenological bumps on the skull kills him as he tries to do so with his own benevolent bump. When his father's servants are removed, it will be simple for him to put the estate in order, collect back rent from the tenants, and expel any who refuse to pay. He formally leaves the fleet, equips his own privateering ship with his newly acquired fortune, and sails back to Sicily to reunite with his bride Agnes. Her family is unable to reject him because he is no longer a junior midshipman but a wealthy gentleman, and he and Agnes go on to have a happily ever after. The book was turned into two adventure movies in the UK: Midshipman Easy, directed by Maurice Elvey in 1915.

The author of I Will Repay is Baroness Emmuska Orczy. Before the French revolution, in 1784, the narrative begins. Rich Paul Déroulède insulted the youthful Vicomte de Marny by referring to his most recent fling, Adèle de Monterchéri. Déroulède had no intention of becoming involved in the argument, but he has the propensity to become involved in trouble by accident, which is ""no doubt a legacy left to him by his bourgeois lineage."" The Duc d'Orléans, the boy's father, is offended by the insult and dares his son to a fight. Vicomte, furious at his son's behavior despite being from a noble family, is no match for Désiré Dénouez-Drouot, who disarms him and murders him with bare hands.Juliette Marny sneaked her way into Citizen-Deputy Déroulède's home on August 19, 1793, and had her sign an oath to ruin him. She keeps planning retribution on her host since she doesn't realize that he merely wants to atone for the loss of her brother.Although Juliette has promised to ruin him, Paul Déroulede falls head over heels in love with her. She publishes a letter criticizing her host, but she ignores his affection for her. On their way from the courthouse to the jail, the condemned couple is rescued by the Scarlet Pimpernel and his companions.

While residing in Lynn, Massachusetts, famous orator and former slave Frederick Douglass penned Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845 as a memoir and abolitionist dissertation. It is sometimes regarded as the best-known of several accounts by former slaves that were published about the same time. The poem recounts his life experiences in precise detail and is regarded as one of the works of literature that had the greatest impact on the American abolitionist movement in the early 19th century. Eleven chapters make up Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, which details Douglass's time spent as a slave and his aspirations to be set free. There are two forewords by prominent white abolitionists: a letter by Wendell Phillips and a preface by William Lloyd Garrison, both of which support the accuracy of the tale and the author's literacy. On May 1st, 1845, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was released, and 5,000 copies had been sold. Nearly 30,000 copies had been sold by 1860. He left Lynn, Massachusetts after the book was published and spent two years sailing to England and Ireland out of concern that his owner in the United States would try to get him back.

By P. G. Wodehouse, there is a book called Indiscretions of Archie. Englishman Archie Moffam lives in New York. He has a kind heart but a limited, if not nonexistent, cerebral capacity, much like Bertie Wooster. He does not have a private income, unlike Bertie. He was a First World War soldier. While visiting New York, he harshly criticizes the staff of the Cosmopolis Hotel, turning Daniel Brewster, the hotel's owner, against him. He meets, falls in love with, and weds Lucille, Brewster's daughter, on a subsequent trip to Miami. Brewster does not feel happy. Archie's attempts to atone for his wrongdoing by getting a job and buying Brewster a pricey piece of art fail miserably. Archie continues to engage in inappropriate behavior.In addition to helping ""The Sausage Chappie,"" an old wartime friend who has lost his memory and forgotten his own identity, he offers advice to Bill, Lucille's brother, who frequently dates women his father disapproves of. He irritates Mrs. Cora Bates McCall, a vegetarian and proponent of good eating, by convincing her son to participate in a pie-eating competition. A further incident with an artwork further angers Brewster. He eventually appeases the elderly snob by informing him that he is soon to become a grandfather.

George Bernard Shaw's three-act love comedy Arms and the Man was staged in 1894 and released a year later. The drama satirizes romantic notions of war and valor and is set in the Bulgarian home of the Petkoff family. In Raina Petkoff's bedroom, a battle-weary officer who is a Swiss mercenary serving in the Serbian army seeks safety and she agrees to hide him from the police. Raina initially mocks the intruder's cowardliness after hearing his straightforward description of the war, in which he refutes the heroics of her fiance Sergius, but eventually comes to value his honesty. After the war is done, the captain, Captain Bluntschli, makes a return. By the play's conclusion, Raina has engaged Bluntschli, who recently inherited a series of Swiss hotels, and Sergius has promised himself to maidservant Louka, whose fiancé, the manservant Nicola, voluntarily renounces his claim to her. The Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885 is depicted in the drama. Young Bulgarian woman Raina Petkoff, the book's protagonist, is engaged to Sergius Sarnofff, one of the war's heroes whom she adores.

Essentially, this is a collection of three short stories that are connected by a select few common characters. The sum of its parts tells a tale about a person and a location at the same time. The prose is frequently lyrical without being emotional; the characters are sharply defined; and the action is fresh, unorthodox, and free of clichés. This book ought to be mandatory reading for anyone who loves the Old West and wants to know how it actually was. The turquoise blue of the Arizona sky had been filmed over the day as the ring surrounding the sun became thicker. The turquoise blue of the Arizona sky had been filmed over the day as the ring surrounding the sun became thicker. Finally, we came across an adobe home, a fruit tree, and a circular corral widening beneath a rounded hill. With soda biscuits, Charley and Windy Bill welcomed us. The elderly man fit the stereotype of "long hair." He had arrived in the Galiuro Mountains in 1969 and had stayed ever since.

In the frigid heavens, a billion stars shone like golden, emotionless eyes. Behind him lay the icy Saskatchewan, with a few scattered lights visible where Prince Albert came down to the river half a mile away. He was feeling unusual sensations within, but he grinned on the outside as he imagined what Van Horn would say if he understood the situation. Howland's first vision of returning consciousness was a red, unwinking eye staring at him fixedly from out of impenetrable gloom--an ogreish, gleaming thing that brought life back into him with a thrill of horror. It was a ball of yellow light that appeared to burn into his own soul and was directly in front of him, level with his face. He attempted to scream, but nothing came out; instead, he made an effort to shift and extricate himself. He sped out after her in an instant, leaving Jean beside the table. Only the grey morning gloom could be seen beyond the door, but it was enough for him to make out the form of the girl he loved, who was half turned and half waiting for him.

American author Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1966) wrote a murder tale titled The Case of Jennie Brice that takes place in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1904. (which since 1907 has been a part of the city of Pittsburgh). It describes the discovery of a blood-stained rope and towel as well as the disappearance of Jenny Brice, two tenants who helped Mrs. Pittman come to the conclusion that a murder had taken place at her boarding home. Police claim there is no case, nevertheless, in the absence of a corpse. Pittman makes an effort to find the murderer by using Jennie's apartment key to conduct an investigation. Jenny Brice's disappearance together with a blood-stained rope, towel, and missing renter all persuade Mrs. Pittman that a murder has been committed at her boarding home. Police claim there is no case, nevertheless, in the absence of a corpse. Pittman makes an effort to find the murderer by using Jennie's apartment key to conduct an investigation.

Alexander Pope published a poem titled "An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires" between 1733 and 1734. The opening line, "Awake, St. John," refers to Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, which is pronounced, "Bull-en-brook." In the opening lines of Paradise Lost, John Milton claims that he will "justify the methods of God to men," and this is an attempt to "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l.16) (1.26). It is focused on the natural order that God established for mankind. Man cannot protest about his place in the great chain of being since he cannot understand God's designs (ll. 33-34). Instead, he must accept that "Whatever is, is right," a subject that Voltaire parodied in Candide (1759). It spread optimistic thought more broadly than any other book throughout England and the rest of Europe. Pope intended for his Essay on Man and Moral Epistles to serve as the constituent pieces of poetic ethical philosophy. Ethic Epistles and Moral Essays are a couple of additional names for Moral Epistles. An Essay on Man was widely praised when it was first published in Europe. The most majestic didactic poetry is ever written in any language.

The coral island is a book by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne that was published in 1857. The tale follows the exploits of three lads who are marooned on a South Pacific island after being the only survivors of a shipwreck. It was one of the first works of young adult literature to feature only young adult heroes. The book first went on sale in late 1857 and has never been out of print. It is a typical Robinsonade, a type of fiction influenced by Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The significance of hierarchy and leadership is one of the novel's key themes, along with the civilizing influence of Christianity and 19th-century imperialism in the South Pacific. The dystopian novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, published in 1954, was inspired by it and flipped the morals of Ballantyne's The Coral Island; whereas in Ballantyne's tale, the children meet evil, in Lord of the Flies evil resides within them. The book was regarded as a classic for primary school students in the UK around the turn of the 20th century, and it was frequently included on high school reading lists in the US.

James Oliver Curwood's love story The Country Beyond is set in the early 1900s in the woods of Northern Canada. It is a story of passion and adventure set in the untamed, untamed wilderness of Canada. James Oliver Curwood creates an intriguing tale of romance and adventure amid the Canadian woods once more. The good in this book isn't all that decent, and the villain ultimately emerges as the victor. Jolly Roger McKay is forced to flee by "The Law," which separates him from his fiancee Nada. Pied-Bot, the half-Airedale, a half-Mackenzie hound named Peter, is torn between the two and adamant about defending them both from any foes-human or animal. This is a touching story of the love and bravery of a man, a woman, and their adorable dog, Peter. In a "fair fight," Sergeant Cassidy of the Royal Northwest Mounties pursues Jolly Roger into the wilderness of northern Canada. Each participant takes turns defeating the other. Jolly Roger moves toward his friends in the Cree tribe while Cassidy pursues him closely. There, his good buddy Yellowbird tells him that he will see Nada again in "The Country Beyond," a location that is still undiscovered.

In the year 1867, "Ragged Dick" was published as a serial story in the Schoolmate, a well-known children's magazine. It garnered so much positive feedback when it was published that it was substantially expanded and revised. It is now made available to the public as the first book of a series meant to depict the existence and experiences of abandoned and stray children. Some anachronisms are acknowledged as supporting the plot development and are likely to be viewed as unimportant in an unpretentious book that does not strive for exact historical authenticity. The relevant data was mostly acquired through personal observation and discussions with the boys. For some information that he was able to utilize, the author is grateful to the outstanding Superintendent of the Newsboys' Lodging House on Fulton Street. The author believes that the tales in this collection of books will arouse readers' empathy for the sad kids whose lives are depicted and inspire them to support the efforts being made by the Children's Aid Society and other organizations to improve their situation.

The most well-known writer of the professional soldier and author from Ancient Greece named Xenophon's Anabasis. It describes the journey of a sizable army of Greek mercenaries sent by Cyrus the Younger to assist him in removing his brother Artaxerxes II from the throne of Persia in 401 BC. The Anabasis, which consists of seven books, was written around 370 BC. The title Anabasis is translated as The March Up Country or as The March of the Ten Thousand even though the Ancient Greek word "v" signifies "embarkation," "ascent," or "mounting up." The best-known of Xenophon's works, and one of the great adventures in human history," is the account of the army's travels across Asia Minor and Mesopotamia. Because of its straightforward prose form and relatively pure Attic dialect, Anabasis is typically one of the first unabridged texts read by students of classical Greek. This is similar to Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico for Latin students. They are both third-person autobiographical stories of military adventure, which may not be a coincidence. Xenophon traveled with the Ten Thousand, a sizable force of Greek mercenaries that Cyrus the Younger had hired in order to assassinate his brother Artaxerxes II from the throne of Persia.

The science fiction novel The Invisible Man was written by H. G. Wells. Griffin is an optics researcher who develops a mechanism to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. Griffin is the scientist referred to as The Invisible Man in the title. He uses this procedure on himself to turn invisible, but he is powerless to reverse it. The English community of Iping, West Sussex, is visited by a mysterious figure known as "the stranger." He is very introverted, irascible, and withdrawn. He works with various chemicals and lab equipment in his rooms the majority of the day. Former medical student The Invisible Man is an albino who turned away from medicine to focus on optics. He created chemicals that can make bodies invisible, which he initially tested on a cat before using on himself. The Invisible Man kills a bystander while on the run after him after arming himself with an iron rod. He declares that Kemp will be the first person to die during the "Reign of Terror" the next day. The epilogue reveals that Marvel has kept Griffin's papers in secret and has built a prosperous business with the money that was stolen. He cannot understand the Greek and Latin of the coded notes; thus he is unable to interpret them.

American author Mark Twain attempted to write a book titled The Mysterious Stranger. He worked on it sporadically between 1897 and 1908. Each of the stories that Mark Twain authored features a paranormal figure known as "Satan" or "No. 44." The versions were all still unfinished (with the debatable exception of the last one, No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger). The Chronicle of Young Satan is around 55,000 words long, Schoolhouse Hill is 15,300 words long, and No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger is 65,000 words long. Mark Twain's Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts, edited by William M. Gibson, was first published in 1969 by the University of California Press as part of The Mark Twain Papers Series. It was later reissued in 2005. A popular edition of No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger, was also published by the University of California Press in 1982. The Phantom Stranger from DC Comics and the Mysterious Stranger share a lot of similarities. Both individuals have hazy backstories that leave room for the theory that they are exiled angels.

Dorothy gets swept into the water by a storm while traveling by boat to Australia with her uncle Henry. She finds safety in a floating chicken coop that washes up on the coast with a hen inside. She meets a talking hen and Tik-Tok the clockwork man, one of the earliest sentient humanoid automatons in fiction. The three go to Princess Langwidere's palace, which is home to a variety of interchangeable, removable heads. She locks Dorothy in a high tower after she refuses to allow her to remove her head and add it to her collection. On a journey to rescue the royal family from the Nome King, Princess Ozma and her Royal Court of Oz just so happen to pass the Deadly Desert. Tik-Tok, Billina, and Dorothy accompany Ozma on her journey to the Kingdom of the Nomes. Billina hears the Nome King talking to another Nome about his transformations, and she discovers how to identify which ornaments are converted individuals by their color. She also finds that the Magic Belt the King is wearing gives him his magical abilities. The Oz people are able to seize the magic belt and flee by taking advantage of the Nomes' aversion to eggs. Ozma, Dorothy, and the others return to Oz after restoring the throne of the royal line of Ev.

The Czar's Spy is an international espionage and intrigue story that was published in 1905 by the English/French novelist William Le Queux. This story takes the reader on a slalom journey across Italy, England, Finland, and Russia before returning to Italy. The goal of this expedition is to solve a mystery, but instead of providing sought-after answers, it simply raises additional questions and causes unclear events. The protagonist of the novel discovers a ripped photo of a stunning woman, falls in love with this unfortunate victim of circumstance, and sacrifices everything to save her. Love, murder, treachery, and mystery are all elements of the plot.The First World War's impending international unrest and hostility are foretold in the novel fairly accurately. It is also an accurate depiction of the early 20th century's deteriorating morality, as well as the collapse of the central pillar that formerly held together all of life's principles. Money replaced family as the most essential thing, power replaced dignity, and a little girl could now compete with world leaders!