By Chas Kingsley
You are going down, perhaps, by railway, to pass your usual six weeks at
some watering-place along the coast, and as you roll along think more
than once, and that ...
by English Authors in France
A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT
BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
It was late in November, 1456. The snow fell over Paris with rigorous,
relentless persistence; someti...
by Honore de Balzac
In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a
convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted
by St. Theresa is sti...
By Anna Katharine Green
CHAPTER I
A NOVEL CASE
"Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that
Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one whic...
L. FRANK BAUM
CHAPTER One
The Call to Duty
Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace,
surrounded by her maids of honor -- a hundred of the most beautif...
By English Authors in Germany
THE BIRD ON ITS JOURNEY
BY BEATRICE HARRADEN
It was about four in the afternoon when a young girl came into the salon
of the little hotel at C in Swit...