The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 6
Gilbert Parker
DURING ONE YEAR LATER CHAPTER XL The day that saw Guida's restitution in the Cohue Royale brought but further trouble to Ranulph Delagarde. The Chevalier had shown him the
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Gilbert Parker
DURING ONE YEAR LATER CHAPTER XL The day that saw Guida's restitution in the Cohue Royale brought but further trouble to Ranulph Delagarde. The Chevalier had shown him the
Gilbert Parker
CHAPTER XXXII The Royal Court was sitting late. Candles had been brought to light the long desk or dais where sat the Bailly in his great chair, and the twelve scarlet-robed
Gilbert Parker
CHAPTER XVII Philip was gone. Before breakfast was set upon the table, Guida saw the Narcissus sail round Noirmont Point and disappear. Her face had taken on a new expr
Gilbert Parker
CHAPTER XI There are moments when a kind of curtain seems dropped over the brain, covering it, smothering it, while yet the body and its nerves are tingling with sensation. I
Gilbert Parker
By Gilbert Parker CONTENTS INTRODUCTION NOTE PROEM CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER I
Jonathan Swift
INTRODUCTION. Jonathan Swift was born in 1667, on the 30th of November. His father was a Jonathan Swift, sixth of the ten sons of the Rev. Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich, nea
Charles Dickens
p. 239Part the First Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer d
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
By Ellen Glasgow To The Beloved Memory of My Mother CONTENTS BOOK FIRST — GOLDEN YEARS I. — “DE HINE FOOT ER A
Stephen Vincent Benét Avery Hopwood Mary Roberts Rinehart
CHAPTER ONE THE SHADOW OF THE BAT “You’ve got to get him, boys—get him or bust!” said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the wo
Rex Beach
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Robert Bloomfield
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G. K. Chesterton
Prefatory Note This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical. All of it that is not frankly fictitiou
Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards. Obiit H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7th, 1896 Pre
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL RUSSIAN, BY WILLIAM D. LEWIS. TO MY RUSSIAN FRIENDS, THE FOLLOWING EFFORT TO RENDER INTO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE A FAVOURITE POEM
Harriet Stark
THE BROKEN CHRYSALIS. (From the Shorthand Notes of John Burke.) THE BACILLUS OF BEAUTY CHAPTER I. THE METAMORPHOSIS. NEW YORK, Sunday, Dec. 16. I
W. S. Gilbert
CONTENTS PAGE Captain Reece 1 The Rival Curates 8 Only a Dancing Girl 14 General John 18 To a Little Maid 24 John
Henry James
Contents PREFACE THE AWKWARD AGE BOOK FIRST. LADY JULIA BOOK SECOND. LITTLE AGGIE BOOK T
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
CHAPTER I Dr. Lavendar and Goliath had toiled up the hill to call on old Mr. Benjamin Wright; when they jogged back in the late afternoon it was with the peculiar complacency
Kate Chopin
THE AWAKENING I A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: “Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That’s all right
Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE AUTOCRAT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY The interruption referred to in the first sentence of the first of these papers was just a quarter of a century in duration. Two articles entitled
William Hale White
p. 1CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER I Childhood 13 CHAPTER II Preparation 33 CHAPTER III Water Lane 57 CHAPTER IV E
Charles Darwin Editor
[My father’s autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,—and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To ma
Benvenuto Cellini Translator
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini [Redactor’s Note: This version of the Autobiography, one of the most famous of all time, was translated by John Addington Symonds (1840-1893
Benjamin Franklin
Pine edition (1916) Eclectic English Classics (1910) Harvard Classics Edition (1909) We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but there are