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David Copperfield is the eighth novel byCharles Dickens. It was first published as a serial in 1849–50, andas a book in 1850. Many elements of the novel follow events inDickens' own life, and it is probably the most autobiographical ofhis novels. In the preface to the 1867 edition, Dickens wrote,"like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favoritechild. And his name is David Copperfield."This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a short storyof speculative fiction by American author Washington Irving,contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories entitledThe Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving wasliving abroad in Birmingham, England, The Legend of Sleepy Hollowwas first published in 1820. Along with Irving's companion pieceRip Van Winkle, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is among the earliestexamples of American fiction with enduring popularity, especiallyduring the Halloween season.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's onlynovel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846, WutheringHeights was published in 1847 under the pseudonym "Ellis Bell";Brontë died the following year, aged 30. Wuthering Heights and AnneBrontë's Agnes Grey were accepted by publisher Thomas Newby beforethe success of their sister Charlotte's novel, Jane Eyre. AfterEmily's death, Charlotte edited the manuscript of WutheringHeights, and arranged for the edited version to be published as aposthumous second edition in 1850. Although Wuthering Heights isnow widely regarded as a classic of English literature,contemporary reviews for the novel were deeply polarised; it wasconsidered controversial because its depiction of mental andphysical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strictVictorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy,morality, social classes and gender inequality.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel aboutyouthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The novelwas first published in December 1815. As in her other novels,Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel womenliving in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a livelycomedy of manners among her characters.Before she began the novel, Austen wrote, "I am going to take aheroine whom no one but myself will much like." In the firstsentence she introduces the title character as "Emma Woodhouse,handsome, clever, and rich." Emma is spoiled, headstrong, andself-satisfied; she greatly overestimates her own matchmakingabilities; she is blind to the dangers of meddling in otherpeople's lives; and her imagination and perceptions often lead herastray.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under thepseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice fallingthrough a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar,anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving thestory lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. Itis considered to be one of the best examples of the literarynonsense genre. Its narrative course and structure, characters andimagery have been enormously influential in both popular cultureand literature, especially in the fantasy genre.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greekepic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to theIliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental tothe modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work ofWestern literature, the Iliad being the oldest. Scholars believe itwas composed near the end of the 8th century BC, somewhere inIonia, the Greek coastal region of Anatolia. The poem mainlycenters on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Romanmyths) and his journey home after the fall of Troy. It takesOdysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War.In his absence, it is assumed he has died, and his wife Penelopeand son Telemachus must deal with a group of unruly suitors, theMnesteres or Proci, who compete for Penelope's hand in marriage.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

The Count of Monte Cristo is an adventurenovel by French author Alexandre Dumas completed in 1844. The storytakes place in France, Italy, and islands in the Mediterraneanduring the historical events of 1815–1839: the era of the BourbonRestoration through the reign of Louis-Philippe of France. Itbegins just before the Hundred Days period (when Napoleon returnedto power after his exile). The historical setting is a fundamentalelement of the book, an adventure story primarily concerned withthemes of hope, justice, vengeance, mercy, and forgiveness. Itcenters around a man who is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes fromjail, acquires a fortune, and sets about getting revenge on thoseresponsible for his imprisonment. However, his plans havedevastating consequences for the innocent as well as the guilty. Inaddition, it is a story that involves romance, loyalty, betrayal,and selfishness, shown throughout the story as characters slowlyreveal their true inner nature.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classicadventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employedFrench valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by hisfriends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimedworks.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by CharlesDickens, set in London and Paris before and during the FrenchRevolution. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantrydemoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up tothe revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by therevolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years ofthe revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life inLondon during the same period.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Moby Dick is a novel by Herman Melvilleconsidered an outstanding work of Romanticism and the AmericanRenaissance. Ishmael narrates the monomaniacal quest of Ahab,captain of the whaler Pequod, for revenge on Moby Dick, a whitewhale which on a previous voyage destroyed Ahab's ship and severedhis leg at the knee. Although the novel was a commercial failureand out of print at the time of the author's death in 1891, itsreputation as a Great American Novel grew during the 20th century.William Faulkner confessed he wished he had written it himself, andD. H. Lawrence called it "one of the strangest and most wonderfulbooks in the world", and "the greatest book of the sea everwritten". "Call me Ishmael" is one of world literature's mostfamous opening sentences.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Pride and Prejudice is a novel of manners byJane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the maincharacter, Elizabeth Bennet, as she deals with issues of manners,upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of thelanded gentry of the British Regency. Elizabeth is the second offive daughters of a country gentleman, Mr. Bennet living inLongbourn.Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudicetells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughtersafter the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-consciousfriend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighborhood. While Bingleytakes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane,Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedlyclashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Through the Looking-Glass is a novel by LewisCarroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice'sAdventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than theearlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time byclimbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyondit. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as"Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episodeinvolving Tweedledum and Tweedledee.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Dubliners is a collection of fifteen shortstories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form anaturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and aroundDublin in the early years of the 20th century.The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak,and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at acrossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by variousconverging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of anepiphany: a moment where a character experiences a life-changingself-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters inDubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. Theinitial stories in the collection are narrated by childprotagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the livesand concerns of progressively older people. This is in line withJoyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood,adolescence and maturity.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

The Jungle is a 1906 novel written bytheAmerican journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrotethenovel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited livesofimmigrants in the United States in Chicago andsimilarindustrialized cities. However, most readers were moreconcernedwith his exposure of health violations and unsanitarypractices inthe American meatpacking industry during the early 20thcentury,based on an investigation he did for a socialist newspaper.Thebook depicts working class poverty, the lack of socialsupports,harsh and unpleasant living and working conditions, andahopelessness among many workers. These elements are contrastedwiththe deeply rooted corruption of people in power.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Children's and Household Tales is acollectionof German fairy tales first published in 1812 by theGrimmbrothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. The collection is commonly knowninEnglish as Grimm's Fairy Tales.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twainisan 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along theMississippiRiver. It is set in the fictional town of St.Petersburg, inspiredby Hannibal, Missouri, where Twain lived.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Mansfield Park is the third novel byJaneAusten, written between February 1811 and 1813. It waspublished inMay 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen'stwo earliernovels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.The eventsof the story are put in motion by the marriages of threesisters.Lady Bertram married extremely well to the wealthy baronetSirThomas Bertram, while Mrs. Norris married a clergyman, whowasgiven the living at the local parsonage by Sir Thomas; thisallowsthe Norrises to live comfortably, yet far below the opulenceof theBertrams. The third sister, Mrs. Price, married a navallieutenantwho was shortly afterwards wounded in battle and leftwith a meagerpension, scarcely enough to support their eventualhousehold ofnine children. Mrs. Norris, always wishing to appearvirtuous,proposes that Lady Bertram take one of the children tolive withher at Mansfield Park. They choose the eldest daughterFanny Price,who is the protagonist of the novel.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is aphilosophicalnovel by the writer Oscar Wilde, first publishedcomplete in 1890.Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-lengthportrait in oil byBasil Hallward, an artist who is impressed andinfatuated byDorian's beauty; he believes that Dorian’s beauty isresponsiblefor the new mode in his art as a painter. Through Basil,Dorianmeets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled bythearistocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty andsensualfulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life.Newlyunderstanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expressesthedesire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, ratherthanhe, will age and fade. The wish is granted, and Dorian pursuesalibertine life of varied and amoral experiences; all the whilehisportrait ages and records every soul-corrupting sin.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novelbyAmerican author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, thenovel"helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according toWillKaufman. Stowe, a Connecticut-born teacher at the HartfordFemaleSeminary and an active abolitionist, featured the characterofUncle Tom, a long-suffering black slave around whom the storiesofother characters revolve. The sentimental novel depicts therealityof slavery while also asserting that Christian love canovercomesomething as destructive as enslavement of fellow humanbeings.Uncle Tom's Cabin was the best-selling novel of the 19thcenturyand the second best-selling book of that century, followingtheBible. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist causeinthe 1850s. In 1855, three years after it was published, itwascalled "the most popular novel of our day." The impactattributedto the book is great, reinforced by a story that whenAbrahamLincoln met Stowe at the start of the Civil War, Lincolndeclared,"So this is the little lady who started this great war."This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Prince and the Pauper is a novelbyAmerican author Mark Twain first published in 1881. Set in 1547,ittells the story of two young boys who are identical inappearance:Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father inOffalCourt off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son ofKingHenry VIII.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel byIrishauthor Bram Stoker. Famous for introducing the character ofthevampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story ofDracula'sattempt to move from Transylvania to England so he mayfind newblood and spread the undead curse, and the battle betweenDraculaand a small group of men and women led by Professor AbrahamVanHelsing. Dracula has been assigned to many literarygenresincluding vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothicnovel andinvasion literature. Although Stoker did not invent thevampire, hedefined its modern form, and the novel has spawnednumeroustheatrical, film and television interpretations.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Jungle Book is a collection of storiesbyEnglish author Rudyard Kipling. The tales in the book arefables,using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give morallessons.The verses of The Law of the Jungle, for example, lay downrulesfor the safety of individuals, families and communities.Kiplingput in them nearly everything he knew or "heard or dreamedaboutthe Indian jungle." Other readers have interpreted the workasallegories of the politics and society of the time. Thebest-knownof them are the three stories revolving around theadventures of anabandoned "man cub" Mowgli who is raised by wolvesin the Indianjungle. The most famous of the other four stories areprobably"Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", the story of a heroic mongoose, and"Toomai ofthe Elephants", the tale of a young elephant-handler. Aswith muchof Kipling's work, each of the stories is preceded by apiece ofverse, and succeeded by another.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Gulliver's Travels into Several RemoteNationsof the World, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, is aprosesatire by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift,that isboth a satire on human nature and a parody of the"travellers'tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best knownfull-lengthwork, and a classic of English literature.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Ulysses is a modernist novel by IrishwriterJames Joyce. Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointmentsandencounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of anordinaryday, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name ofOdysseus, thehero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novelestablishes aseries of parallels between its characters and eventsand those ofthe poem (e.g., the correspondence of Leopold Bloom toOdysseus,Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus toTelemachus).This work is in the public domain, and therefore hasbeenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyrightlaw,including all related and neighboring rights.

Frankenstein is a novel written by theEnglishauthor Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley about the young sciencestudentVictor Frankenstein, who creates a grotesque but sentientcreaturein an unorthodox scientific experiment. Frankenstein isinfusedwith elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement,and isalso considered to be one of the earliest examples ofsciencefiction. Shelley started writing the story when she waseighteen,and the novel was published when she was twenty. The firsteditionwas published anonymously in London in 1818. Shelley's nameappearson the second edition, published in France in 1823.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850workof fiction in a historical setting, written by NathanielHawthorne,and is considered to be his magnum opus. Set in17th-centuryPuritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to1649, ittells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughterthroughan affair and struggles to create a new life of repentanceanddignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themesoflegalism, sin, and guilt.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Oliver Twist is the second novel byCharlesDickens, and was first published as a serial 1837-1839. Thestoryis of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts his life in aworkhouseand is then apprenticed with an undertaker. He escapesfrom thereand travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, amember ofa gang of juvenile pickpockets, which is led by theelderlycriminal Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for Dickens'sunromanticportrayal of criminals and their sordid lives, as well asexposingthe cruel treatment of the many orphans in London inthemid–nineteenth century. An early example of the socialnovel,Dickens satirizes the hypocrisies of his time, includingchildlabor, the recruitment of children as criminals, and thepresenceof street children.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Great Expectations is CharlesDickens'sthirteenth novel and his penultimate completed novel;abildungsroman which depicts the personal growth andpersonaldevelopment of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is set amongmarshes inKent, and in London, in the early to mid-1800s, andcontains someof Dickens' most memorable scenes, including theopening, in agraveyard, where the young Pip is accosted by theescaped convict,Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full ofextreme imagery –poverty; prison ships and chains, and fights tothe death – and hasa colorful cast of characters who have enteredpopular culture.These include the eccentric Miss Havisham, thebeautiful but coldEstella, and Joe, the kind and generousblacksmith. Dickens'sthemes include wealth and poverty, love andrejection, and theeventual triumph of good over evil.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes isacollection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle,featuringhis fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The stories arenot inchronological order, and the only characters common to alltwelveare Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of theSherlockHolmes stories, those contained within The Adventures ofSherlockHolmes are told by a first-person narrative from the pointof viewof Dr. Watson. In general the stories in The Adventures ofSherlockHolmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices.Holmes isportrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel byJaneAusten, and was her first published work when it appeared in1811under the pseudonym "A Lady". A work of romantic fiction,betterknown as a comedy of manners, Sense and Sensibility is setinsouthwest England, London and Kent between 1792 and 1797,andportrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, ElinorandMarianne. The novel follows the young ladies to their new home,ameagre cottage on a distant relative's property, wheretheyexperience love, romance and heartbreak.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophyof the Future is a book by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, firstpublished in 1886. It draws on and expands the ideas of hisprevious work, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but with a more critical andpolemical approach. In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche accuses pastphilosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly acceptingdogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically,he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon thefaith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, ratherthan just a different expression of the same basic impulses thatfind more direct expression in the evil man. The work moves intothe realm "beyond good and evil" in the sense of leaving behind thetraditional morality which Nietzsche subjects to a destructivecritique in favour of what he regards as an affirmative approachthat fearlessly confronts the perspectival nature of knowledge andthe perilous condition of the modern individual.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law,including all related and neighboring rights.

Anna Karenina is a novel by the RussianwriterLeo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to1877 inthe periodical The Russian Messenger. Widely regarded as apinnaclein realist fiction, Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina hisfirst truenovel, after he came to consider War and Peace to be morethan anovel. Anna Karenina is the tragic story of amarriedaristocrat/socialite and her affair with the affluentCountVronsky. The novel explores a diverse range of topicsthroughoutits approximately thousand pages. Some of these topicsinclude anevaluation of the feudal system that existed in Russia atthetime—politics, not only in the Russian government but also atthelevel of the individual characters and families,religion,morality, gender and social class.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a novelbyMark Twain, first published in the United Kingdom in December1884and in the United States in February 1885. Commonly named amongtheGreat American Novels, the work is among the first inmajorAmerican literature to be written throughout in vernacularEnglish,characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in thefirstperson by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyerandnarrator of two other Twain novels. It is a direct sequel toTheAdventures of Tom Sawyer.The book is noted for its colorful description of peopleandplaces along the Mississippi River. Set in a Southernantebellumsociety that had ceased to exist about twenty yearsbefore the workwas published, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is anoften scathingsatire on entrenched attitudes, particularlyracism.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

Anne of Green Gables is a 1908 novelbyCanadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written for all ages, ithasbeen considered a children's novel since the mid-twentiethcentury.It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-oldorphangirl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert,amiddle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boytohelp them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. The novelrecountshow Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, andwithinthe town.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, writtenbyPlato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice,theorder and character of the just city-state and the justman.Plato's best-known work, it has proven to be one of theworld'smost influential works of philosophy and political theory,bothintellectually and historically. In it, Socrates along withvariousAthenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice andexaminewhether or not the just man is happier than the unjust manbyconsidering a series of different cities coming into existence"inspeech", culminating in a city called Kallipolis, which is ruledbyphilosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existingregimes.The participants also discuss the theory of forms, theimmortalityof the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and ofpoetry insociety.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Just So Stories for Little Children areacollection written by the British author Rudyard Kipling.Highlyfantasized origin stories, especially for differencesamonganimals, they are among Kipling's best known works. The JustSoStories typically have the theme of a particular animalbeingmodified from an original form to its current form by the actsofman, or some magical being. For example, the Whale has atinythroat because he swallowed a mariner, who tied a raft insidetoblock the whale from swallowing other men. The Camel has ahumpgiven to him by a djinn as punishment for the camel's refusingtowork (the hump allows the camel to work longer between timesofeating). The Leopard's spots were painted by an Ethiopian(afterthe Ethiopian painted himself black). The Kangaroo getsitspowerful hind legs, long tail, and hopping gait after beingchasedall day by a dingo, sent by a minor god responding totheKangaroo's request to be made different from all other animals.This work is in the public domain, and therefore has beenidentifiedas being free of known restrictions under copyright law,includingall related and neighboring rights.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is achildren'snovel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W.Denslow.Originally published by the George M. Hill Company inChicago onMay 17, 1900, it has since been reprinted numerous times,mostoften under the name The Wizard of Oz. The story chroniclestheadventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale, who lives withherAunt Em and Uncle Henry and her little dog Toto on a Kansasfarm.One day, Dorothy and Toto are caught up in a cyclone thatdepositsher farmhouse into Munchkin Country in the magical Land ofOz. Thefalling house has killed the Wicked Witch of the East, theevilruler of the Munchkins. The Good Witch of the North arriveswiththe grateful Munchkins and gives Dorothy the Silver Shoes thatoncebelonged to the witch. The Good Witch tells Dorothy that theonlyway she can return home is to go to the Emerald City and askthegreat and powerful Wizard of Oz to help her.This work is in the public domain, and therefore hasbeenidentified as being free of known restrictions under copyrightlaw,including all related and neighboring rights.