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...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ......................................................................... 30 FEMALE EQUALITY AND ECONOMIC USEFULNESS ...................................... ........................................................ 31 THE REALITIES OF FEMALE SUBJUGATION ........................................................... ...some cartoons, but they always have a good message. We never have cartoon characters dropped off cliffs, run over by trucks, shot, or exposed to any... ...and films, but they all have positive moral lessons. Look at your favorite fairy tales—the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood; the wicked step mo... ...ms, but they all have positive moral lessons. Look at your favorite fairy tales—the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood; the wicked step mothers a...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of ...

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...“It’s your movie – if you don’t like it just write yourself a better part in the script!” and Gal, who showed me how magic happens. Copyright © Tom ... ...All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by means, electronic... ...he Bloons dropped off themselves, dozing on each other’s shoulders, their tales curled around their necks like scarves. Then the eyes of the Storyte... ...mals, all the people and all the countries on Earth are just part of some fairy tale? That our history, our culture, our society are all made up by ... ...the comics he’d been reading earlier. If he had been able to speak to the characters, they would have assured him that they were real. They would ha... ...too much coffee in a study somewhere. But these were stories with only 20 characters in them, not a planet with billions of people and trillions of ... ...had escaped from a laboratory. Or maybe he was some kind of old-fashioned fairy or ghost. He might even be an alien. Before Theo could think about th... ...ccounts. Three of them moved forward to put the cuffs on Simon, while the female off cer took a good hold on Theo’s collar. ‘Now then, young man, you... ...ly than anyone. True, he had trouble making out whether they were male or female, old or young – but when it came to seeing into their souls, he was...

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...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, cha... ...on in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s im... ...w did you know?” Mitchell’s mouth remained open. Rick decided not to tell fairy tales, dreading reprisals from the boy’s mother. “Your Pop told me. H... ...you know?” Mitchell’s mouth remained open. Rick decided not to tell fairy tales, dreading reprisals from the boy’s mother. “Your Pop told me. He said... ...ing just poured himself a coffee from his thermos, he heard an unfamiliar female voice. Glancing about, he realised the woman was above him and in t... ...as heard. “Good Lord this and the good Lord that. The good Lord created a female terrorist and gave her my husband’s address!” Rolling her eyes in f... ... that bugger caused. No, the devil has more chance of turning into a pink fairy than me forgiving John.” Chris meant every word. “John I can underst...

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...ghts reserved. No part of this print publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electron... ...st part of this book (excluding the Appendix) is a work of fiction. Names, characters and events are a product of the author’s imagination and any sim... ..., is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author. The information in the Appendix of this book is offered on an “as is” basis, without warran... ...ted with the other mothers while their children played. She told elaborate tales about her handsome husband and the restaurants they went to and the v... ...omething. Your goddamned brats always want some- thing. I’ve got a fucking female foreigner for a boss who al- 26 SUSAN BRACKEN ways wants something.... ...y. The phone rang. “Is this Lacey Brock?” inquired a professional sounding female voice. “Yes,” replied Lacey. Someone else selling something. I do no... ... as well as to her. “This is all so wonderful. I feel like I’m living in a fairy tale. I got the locales in my books from magazine pictures and from o... ...on the streets, and thrilled to be riding in a limo like a celebrity, or a fairytale princess with her handsome prince charming. They arrived at ‘The ...

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...a Scott ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edito... ...l rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocop... ...rieval and storage system without permission of the publisher. Names, characters and incidents depicted in this book are products of the author... ... Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale of a house for his bride, Helene, and his newborn son, Ronan. ... ...luded John Wilkes Booth as Rupert’s understudy and a handful of disgruntled female admirers who contrived to keep Rupert from the theater one night t... ...tried to reach for her, she swirled away from him. The candle flame, like a fairy’s wand, danced through the air ahead of her as she visited each co... ... steady herself while she climbed down the ladder. “I shouldn’t be carryin’ tales outta school, but ye ain’t never done wrong by me — or Mr. Connoll... ...ould want to identify with her, not ravish her.” “Specifically, Danny, the female audience should want to identify, and the male audience should wa...

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Excerpt: Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...e M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a pub... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Char... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pen... ...iterature for young people given by the example of that memorable book the Fairy Bower, and followed up by Amy Herbert. It was felt that elder childre... ...ourt. She was ter- ribly awkward when under constraint, or in learning any female accomplishment, but swift and ready when at her ease, and glorying i... ...er as a perfect model, and sighed over her own naughtiness. German Popular Tales were a recent introduction of Claude’s, for Eleanor had carefully exc... ... a recent introduction of Claude’s, for Eleanor had carefully excluded all fairy tales from her sisters’ library; so great was her dread of works of f... ...ent introduction of Claude’s, for Eleanor had carefully excluded all fairy tales from her sisters’ library; so great was her dread of works of fiction...

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...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain crit...

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...; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till these evil times, however, such all...

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... Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...n entered, he thrust aside his cloak, and displayed Ilbrahim’s face to the female. “Dorothy, here is a little outcast, whom Providence hath put into o... ...ied, his nerves fluttered, he was unable to turn his eyes from the muffled female. When the preliminary prayer and hymn were over, the min- ister aros... ...Queen Elizabeth, and high-ruffled la- dies of her court, were mingled with characters of comedy, such as a party-colored Merry Andrew, jingling his ca... ... off. 133 Hawthorne See—here come more of these gentry.” Another group of characters had now partly descended the staircase. The first was a venerabl... ...e the dry pine was flaming and crackling, like an ir- regular discharge of fairy musketry, Peter sat looking and listening, in a pleasant state of exc...

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, the P... ...aims, different bonds, and different activities gave them wholly different characters.” 7 Taras Bulba & Other Tales This same Prince Guedimin freed K... ...wer for individual and general good. “It combines all the fascination of a fairy tale and all the simple truth of human adventure, holding out the sam... ... children of both sexes, beginning at an age when a child begins to love a fairy tale—all might read it or listen to it, without tedium.” Every one wi... ...earned more willingly and without the effort with which strong and weighty characters gen- erally have to make in order to apply themselves to study. ... ...him quiver all over. Through the open door he saw flit rapidly past a tall female figure, with a long thick braid of hair falling over her uplifted ha... ... ancestral custom; and when quarrelling with his wife, he called her a low female and a German. As we have mentioned his wife, it will be necessary to...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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... only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversial tales, and the ?Chaplet of Pearls? is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical ...

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...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days th...

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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of mu...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ... six years I have made scarcely one a year. The bulk of the fifty or sixty tales from which this present three-and-thirty have been chosen dates from ... ...y was written in pencil and in a crazy hand, quite unlike his usual minute characters. There remain only two curious facts to record. Indisputably the... ...om- petition, that was to end in a “sufficiency.” Then Jennie came in as a female Mephistopheles, a gabbling chronicle of 171 H.G . Wells “fellers,” ... ... “all that.” And in addition were aunts of his wife, and cousins (male and female) to eat up capital, insult him per- sonally, upset business arrangem... ... first. His relationship to Cave was peculiar. He had a taste for singular characters, and he had more than once invited the old man to smoke and drin... ..., everyone was forbidden to listen to me, to hear a word about it. Even my fairytale books were taken away from me for a time—because I was too ‘imagi... ...rld beyond the mountains where men lived in sunlight seemed no more than a fairy tale he would some day pour into her ears. Very tentatively and timid...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they ...

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...Excerpt: Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other question...

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...nected with my fortunes or my speculations, even my place of residence might one day have a kind of charm for them. Bearing this possible contingency in mind, I wish them to understand, in the outset, that they must never expect to know it....

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