Plays : First Series
John Galsworthy
ACT I SCENE I The curtain rises on the BARTHWICK'S dining-room, large, modern, and well furnished; the window curtains drawn. Electric light is burning. On
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John Galsworthy
ACT I SCENE I The curtain rises on the BARTHWICK'S dining-room, large, modern, and well furnished; the window curtains drawn. Electric light is burning. On
John Galsworthy
CHARACTERS JOHN BUILDER……………. of the firm of Builder & Builder JULIA………………….. His Wife ATHENE…………………. His elder Daughter MAUD…………………… His younger Daughter RALPH
August Strindberg Translator
By August Strindberg Translated From The Swedish, With Introductions By Edwin Bjorkman CONTENTS CREDITORS INTRODUCTION
Charles Kingsley
Transcribed from “Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays”, 1890 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org PLAYS AND PURITANS [3] The British Isle
Henry Morley
CONTENTS. PAGES Introduction 7–15 Chaucer’s Manciple’s Tale of Phœbus and the Crow Modernised by Leigh Hunt. 17–27 Chaucer’s Rime of Sir Tho
Rudyard Kipling
By Rudyard Kipling CONTENTS PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS LISPETH. THREE AND—AN EXTRA. THROWN AWAY. MISS YOUGHAL'S SAI
Joseph I. Gorfinkle
________________________ TRANSCRIBER'S COMMENTS The source book for this e-text included an Introduction, Preface, and extensive footnotes. These are omitted in this text,
Joseph I. Gorfinkle
PURPOSE The original aim of Abot was to show the divine source and authority of the traditional law revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai, and to demonstrate its continuity from Mose
Constance Lindsay Skinner Editor
Acknowledgment. This narrative is founded largely on original sources—on the writings and journals of pioneers and contemporary observers, such as Doddridg
Mary Johnston Editor
By Mary Johnston CONTENTS PIONEERS OF THE OLD SOUTH CHAPTER I. THE THREE SHIPS SAIL CHAPTER II. THE ADVENTURERS CHAP
Henrik Ibsen Translator
Henrik Ibsen Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp DRAMATIS PERSONAE Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder. Mrs. Bernick, his wife. Olaf, their son, thir
John Hay
By John Hay CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. THE PIKE COUNTY BALLADS. JIM BLUDSO, OF THE "PRAIRIE BELLE." LITTLE BREECHES.
Ellis Parker Butler
“PIGS IS PIGS” By Ellis Parker Butler Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over t
Honoré de Balzac Translator
By Honore De Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Mademoiselle Anna Hanska
Honoré de Balzac Translator
By Honore De Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To The Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Periollas,
Guy de Maupassant Translator
CHAPTER I “Tschah!” exclaimed old Roland suddenly, after he had remained motionless for a quarter of an hour, his eyes fixed on the water, while now and again he very slightly
Gilbert Parker
THE TALL MASTER The story has been so much tossed about in the mouths of Indians, and half-breeds, and men of the Hudson's Bay Company, that you are pretty sure to hear only a
Gilbert Parker
[NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire meal of them. D.W.]
Gilbert Parker
GENERAL INTRODUCTION With each volume of this subscription edition (1912) there is a special introduction, setting forth, in so far as seemed possible, the relation of each wo
Gilbert Parker
By Gilbert Parker CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION NOTE THE PATROL OF THE CYPRESS HILLS GOD’S GAR
Sir J. M. Le Moine
PREFACE This volume, purporting to be a sequel to "QUEBEC PAST AND PRESENT," published in 1876, is intended to complete the history of the city. New and interesting details wi
Charles Dickens
CONTENTS The Reader’s Passport 215 Going through France 218 Lyons, the Rhone, and the Goblin of Avignon 225 Avignon to Genoa 233 Genoa
Mary Schell Hoke Bacon
PICTURES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW A SELECTION OF THE WORLD'S ART MASTERPIECES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE BY DOLORES BACON Illustrated from Great Paintings ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Adélaïde de Montgolfier Translator
MRS. FOLLEN With illustrations by Gammatt Billings and others PREFACE. This little story I have translated from the French of Mademoiselle Montgolfier