by John Masefield CONTENTS MARTIN HYDE CHAPTER I.   I LEAVE HOME CHAPTER II.   I LEAVE HOME AGAIN CHAPTER III.   I LEAVE

“Let me live out my years in heat of blood!     Let me lie drunken with the dreamer’s wine! Let me not see this soul-house built of mud     Go toppling to the dust a vacant shri

CHAPTER I HOW MY SOLITUDE CAME TO AN END "Justice, O God, upon mine enemy. For the pain I suffer, may I see him suffer; for the anguish that is mine, so may I watch his agon

by Charles Dickens Original Original Original CONTENTS PREFACE POSTSCRIPT CHAPTER ONE

A mound of earth a little higher graded:     Perhaps upon a stone a chiselled name: A dab of printer’s ink soon blurred and faded—     And then oblivion—that—that is fame!     

T. S. ARTHUR. PHILADELPHIA: 1852. PREFACE. THE highest, purest, best and holiest relation in life is that of marriage, which ought never to be rega

By August Strindberg CONTENTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INTRODUCTION ASRA LOVE AND BREAD COMPELLED TO COMPENSATION FRICTIO

CONTENTS PAGE I. Eden Place 1 II. Mistress Mary’s Garden 16 III. A Family Polygon 29 IV. Marm Lisa is Transplanted

I. SCOTT AT ASHESTIEL. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinbur

by Mark Twain CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PREFACE THE STORY OF A SPEECH PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS COMPLIMENTS AND

XLVI. LETTERS 1907-08. A DEGREE FROM OXFORD. THE NEW HOME AT REDDING. The author, J. Howard Moore, sent a copy of his book, The Universal Kinship, with a letter

XL. LETTERS OF 1901, CHIEFLY TO TWICHELL. MARK TWAIN AS A REFORMER. SUMMER AT SARANAC. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY. An editorial in the Louisville Cour

XXVI. LETTERS, 1886-87. JANE CLEMENS'S ROMANCE. UNMAILED LETTERS, ETC. When Clemens had been platforming with Cable and returned to Hartford for his Christmas v

XVI. LETTERS, 1876, CHIEFLY TO W. D. HOWELLS. LITERATURE AND POLITICS. PLANNING A PLAY WITH BRET HARTE. The Monday Evening Club of Hartford was an association

Contents To Bret Harte, in San Francisco: WESTMINSTER HOTEL, May 1, 1867. DEAR BRET,—I t

FOREWORD Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters. Not in literary letters—prepared with care, and the thought of possible pu

By Mark Twain ***** MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS--1853-1866 ARRANGED WITH COMMENT BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

Contents BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an

THE PERSONAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE CONTENTS VOLUME I, Part 2: 1866-1875

TO CLARA CLEMENS GABRILOWITSCH WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE TO WRITE HISTORY RATHER THAN EULOGY AS THE STORY OF HER FATHER’S LIFE

CLXII BROWNING, MEREDITH, AND MEISTERSCHAFT The Browning readings must have begun about this time. Just what kindled Mark Twain's interest in the poetry of Robert Browning i

CVI HIS FIRST STAGE APPEARANCE Once that winter the Monday Evening Club met at Mark Twain's home, and instead of the usual essay he read them a story: "The Facts Concerning

CCLVII A TRUE ENGLISH WELCOME Mark Twain's trip across the Atlantic would seem to have been a pleasant one. The Minneapolis is a fine, big ship, and there was plenty of com

CCXIII MARK TWAIN—GENERAL SPOKESMAN Clemens did not confine his speeches altogether to matters of reform. At a dinner given by the Nineteenth Century Club in November, 1900,