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L. Frank Baum The Master Key - An Electrical Fairy Tale

An Electrical Fairy Tale

Fairy Tale
English
34697 Words
No Age Recommendation
378
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The Master Key: An Electrical Fairy Tale, Founded Upon the Mysteries of Electricity and the Optimism of Its Devotees is a novel by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The protagonist is a boy named Rob Joslyn. His age is not specified. Baum dedicated the book "To My Son, Robert Stanton Baum," who was born in 1886 and would thus have been about fifteen at the time it was published. Rob is an electrical experimenter whose father encourages him and sees that he "never lacked batteries, motors or supplies of any sort." A "network 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." There is a bright flash, and a being who calls himself the Demon of Electricity appears. He tells Rob that he has accidentally "touched the Master Key of Electricity" and is entitled to "to demand from me three gifts each week for three successive weeks." Rob protests that he does not know what to ask for, and the Demon agrees to select the gifts himself. Over the next two weeks, Rob experiences adventures exploring the use of the Demon's gifts, but eventually concludes that neither he nor the world is ready for them. On the third week, Rob rejects the Demon's gifts and tells him to bide his time until humankind knows how to use them. The Demon leaves. With a light heart, Rob concludes that he made the right decision. [more]

Keywords: the master key, an electrical fairy tale, modern fairy tale, l frank baum, fairy tale, technology and morality, oz

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James Patterson, Julia Bergen Fairy Tale Story

Fairy Tale
English
209 Words
Ages 6 and up
302
1

A book by James Patterson and Julia Bergen had these fun activities in which you can write in [more]

Keywords: James Patterson, Middle School, Fairy Tale

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Mario William Vitale The Tale Of Pygmy Joe

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Fairy Tale
English
2117 Words
No Age Recommendation
367
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The tale of a lonely orphan boy, Was found in the woods by a monk.., Formerly a Pygmy from a [more]

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Charles Dickens A Tale Of Two Cities

Fiction
English
135634 Words
No Age Recommendation
918
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before [more]

Keywords: A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

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Beatrix Potter The Tale of Peter Rabbit

Fiction
English
990 Words
Ages 3 and up
150
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, 1902. The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a British children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he is chased about the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns home to his mother who puts him to bed after dosing him with camomile tea. The tale was written for five-year-old Noel Moore, son of Potter's former governess Annie Carter Moore, in 1893. Beatrix Potter (1866–1943) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books, featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life. The book was a success, and multiple reprints were issued in the years immediately following its debut. It has been translated into 36 languages and with 45 million copies sold it is one of the best-selling books of all time. The book has generated considerable merchandise over the decades since its release for both children and adults with toys, dishes, foods, clothing, videos and other products made available. [more]

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Children, Children Tales, Beatrix Potter, Peter Rabbit, Fable, Tale

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Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

Fiction
English
135546 Words
Ages 10 and up
781
2

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events. The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnay's wife. [more]

Keywords: a tale of two cities, charles dickens, historical fiction, classic literaure, the french revolution, history

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James Mad monk A tale

Fantasy
English
467 Words
Ages 12 and up
415
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This is a short tale of Dreams and Imagination. tales of madness tales of feelings Tales of things [more]

Keywords: English

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Frederick Treves The Tale of a Field Hospital

Fiction
English
25185 Words
No Age Recommendation
214
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The South African War, of which this Tale is told, is already near to be forgotten, although there are many to whom it still remains the most tragic memory of their lives. War is ever the same: an arena, aglare with pomp and pageant, for the display of that most elemental and most savage of human passions, the lust to kill, as well as a dumb torture place where are put to the test man's fortitude and his capacity for the endurance of pain. This brief narrative is concerned not with shouting hosts in defiant array, but with the moaning and distorted forms of men who have been "scorched by the flames of war." It deals with the grey hours after the great, world-echoing display is over, with the night that ends the gladiator's show, when the arena is occupied only by the maimed, the dying and the dead. [more]

Keywords: The Tale of a Field Hospital, Frederick Treves, The Tale of a Field Hospital By Frederick Treves

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