L. FRANK BAUM
To My Readers
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This
pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its
present...
GEORGE MACDONALD
What! No Children?
Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date,
there lived a king and queen who had no children.
And the king said to himse...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION
To Theophile Gautier
CHAPTER I
THE LAST WORD OF TWO GREAT COQUETTES
After the disasters of the revolution o...