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• L. Frank Baum wrote a young adult book titled Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad in 1906, which was published by Reilly & Britton under the pseudonym ""Edith Van Dyne."" An affluent, old, troublesome invalid named Jane Merrick is getting ready to pass away. To decide who would inherit her fortune, she invites her three adolescent nieces to come to see her. Beth is direct and harsh, Patsy is frank and talented, and Louise is kind but cunning. Aunt Jane decides to prepare a will giving most of the estate to Patsy as her health continues to decline. Jane should hand it off to Kenneth, Patsy resists, and she is adamant.Thomas left Jane his inheritance in a quick will, providing that she might enjoy it while she lived, and then it would pass to his sister and her offspring. No one has received a monetary bequest; Kenneth is the only owner of the money. Days later, when Uncle John is performing business at the bank, he runs into him and finds out the truth. John notes that they all believed he was impoverished at home and that he just did not contradict them. He offers to leave both of the other girls' families considerable sums of money, which may subsequently be passed on to the nieces.

• Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work was written in 1909 by L. Frank Baum, best known as the author of The Land of Oz. It is the fourth novel of the ten-book Aunt Jane's Nieces series, which, after the Oz books themselves, was Baum's most popular literary work. It was published under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne," one of Baum's many aliases, just like the previous works in the series. The story of the three cousins Louise Merrick, Beth De Graf, and Patsy Doyle, and their circle is continued in the book. The title is a little deceptive; a more appropriate title would have been Aunt Jane's Nieces in Politics. Three days after Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville ended, the story picks up with freckled and red-haired Patsy still nursing a sunburn from her summer spent in the Adirondacks. She and Louise get letters from Kenneth Forbes, their "cousin," the young man who in the first book of the series inherited Aunt Jane's land. To some extent, Baum's decision to portray the Democratic candidate as a practitioner of "low politics" may be seen as a reflection of reality.

• 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.

• L. Frank Baum wrote the 1912 book Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation under the pen name "Edith Van Dyne." Baum's intended title was Aunt Jane's Nieces in Journalism, which is more accurate, but the publisher changed it without telling him, much to his chagrin. To begin with, the title is accurate enough. Returning to their holiday home in Millville, upstate New York, are John Merrick and his nieces. Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick Weldon, the three girls, get tired of taking vacations and want to get more involved in town life. Since Beth reads newspapers frequently, they plan to start their own newspaper with Uncle John's funding, and stereotype plates from the wire service liberally strewn with local news and rumors. Louise is mostly in charge of the latter. As was typical of female-run businesses at the period, her husband, Arthur Weldon, has his name listed first on the masthead, which forces him into a duel with one of the yokels. However, the issues brought by local greedy mill owners trying to con the town become the main plot. White ethnics make up the majority of the workforce, which the locals despise.

• Young Mary Louise is very honest and intelligent beyond her years. This occasionally caused her to disagree with her schoolmates, but she is mature enough to not be concerned by their views most of the time. Mary Louise shared a home with her mother and her grandfather, who she cherished. She is surprised one day when her grandfather sits her down and informs her that he and her mother must leave her for a time after having an unpleasant interaction with a man on their stroll. He arranges for her to board at the school, then leaves in the middle of the night with his daughter. When Mary Louise learns that her grandpa is eluding the authorities, she is first unhappy and then shocked. When the other students at the school learn about Mary Louise's position, they start to harass and tease her nonstop. Mary Louise ultimately escapes and meets a friend of her grandfather, but she also learns that the police are also after her. Mary Louise's new life with the Contents and her friend Irene starts to attract several enigmatic personalities, and it's only a matter of time before she realizes that their meeting is no accident. Mary Louise is eventually able to solve the enigma surrounding her family with Irene's assistance.

• L. Frank Baum's eleventh canonical Oz novel is titled The Lost Princess of Oz.Glinda discovers her Great Book of Records is gone as she awakens at her palace in the Quadling Country. Her magic instruments are also gone when she prepares to construct a spell to find them. To discover Ozma and the lost magic, Glinda, Dorothy, and the Wizard form search groups.The previously undiscovered settlements of Thi and Herku are entered by Dorothy, the Wizard, and their group. The dishpan made of gold and set with diamonds belonged to Cayke the cookie baker. In a gold orchard, there is just one peach tree that Button-Bright uses for food. Despite the local animals' warnings, he steals the gold peach pit to show Dorothy, Betsy, and Trot later.Together with Glinda and the Wizard, Dorothy and her pals attempt to free Button-Bright from Ugu's fortress. Ugu adjusts the enchantment so that he keeps his human stature and violent personality when Dorothy uses the Magic Belt to transform him into a dove. Ozma returns to the Emerald City after being released from the jail Ugu had placed her in. Days later, Ugu requests Dorothy's forgiveness for what he did as he flies in to see her, but subsequently decides he prefers his new life as a dove.

• The Road to Oz : Together with Glinda and the Wizard, Dorothy and her pals attempt to free Button-Bright from Ugu's fortress. Ugu adjusts the enchantment so that he keeps his human stature and violent personality when Dorothy uses the Magic Belt to transform him into a dove. Ozma returns to the Emerald City after being released from the jail Ugu had placed her in. Days later, Ugu requests Dorothy's forgiveness for what he did as he flies in to see her, but subsequently decides he prefers his new life as a dove.The narrative depicts the voyage to the Land of Oz taken by Dorothy, Toto, the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, and other anthropomorphic foxes. The sands of the desert will convert the tourists to dust, as Dorothy does in Ozma of Oz (1907).Arriving in Oz are characters such as Dorothy, Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, Polychrome, Jack Pumpkinhead, Tik-Tok, Billina, Jellia Jamb, Woggle-Bug, Hungry Tiger, the Good Witch of the North, and Ozma. The Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger drag Dorothy's chariot in, where she meets Ozma. The Wizard of Oz shows how to send everyone home by utilizing bubbles. When Polychrome's rainbow family finally locates her, she is miraculously carried into the air.

• Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies : When Johnny Brainerd was a little child, he first began to tinker. He quickly adopts his mother's proposal to build a mechanical man after growing weary of creating the usual inventions. He keeps it hidden in his garage till a strange-looking man eventually sees it. Baldy Bicknell, a tracker, and frontiersman are immediately enthralled by the steam man. Johnny can try it out in the prairies, where he promises it will be very helpful for another project he is working on. Baldy is working with two unreliable gold miners! But the guys have consistently faced assaults from Indians. The presence of a massive steam man may frighten the Indians. A young prodigy creates a steam-powered robot that can walk quickly and pull a cart in its wake. He is persuaded by a frontiersman that traveling across Indian territory to a gold mine he has staked a claim to would be the ideal field test for the steam man. They engage in buffalo racing, Indian battles, and prairie exploration on the route.

• The Mad Planet : Burl was aware of wasps with stings nearly as long as his own body that could rapidly kill prey. The skulking tribe members of Burl had minimal fear of wasps since each species had a defined prey item. Invoking the horrifying screams of his grandfather, who had been attacked by a black-bellied tarantula years ago, he opened his mouth to scream. In addition to crickets, beetles, and spiders, Burl once spotted a swarm of large, red Amazon ants moving in a neat line across a blue-green mold that had emerged from the river. Under the same silky covering, the tarantula writhed in agony on Burl's spear point. He awaited the introduction of the poison fangs. Above the flames, moths, flying beetles, enormous gnats, and midges performed the death dance. Burl could see them as the flames drew closer to him. Moths beat the air fiercely with their wildly colored thirty-foot-spread wings. As they fixed their crazed attention on the blazing fires below them, their enormous eyes shone like carbuncles. It didn't matter to Burl that one large insect was consuming another. He kept vigil, his eyes darting from the cricket to the odd opening behind the trap.

• An influential French sociologist and criminologist, Gabriel de Tarde. The novel Underground Man, which was released in 1905, was created to illustrate de Tarde's belief that a person is a product of his or her social surroundings. In the novel, the sun's extinction drives humanity below, and as the migrants tunnel ever-deeper, views drastically shift.There are three parts to the book. In the first, de Tarde cynically describes how man struggles to create a utopia; in the second, the sun becomes red, the water turns to ice, and airborne nitrogen and oxygen flakes start to fall. The survivors begin creating massive crypts after becoming convinced that heat and electricity may be extracted from the earth's core. They establish a friendly, artistic society here beneath the ground, complete with incredible labor-saving devices that allow them to concentrate on producing works of art. The conclusion of de Tarde's story is that man may transcend his own fundamental character under the right circumstances.

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