Rutherford Platt
Prologue
The First Book of Adam and Eve details the life and times of Adam and
Eve after they were expelled from the garden to the time that Cain kills
his brother...
Bret Harte
PROLOGUE.
In San Francisco the "rainy season" had been making itself a reality to
the wondering Eastern immigrant. There were short days of drifting
clouds and flying su...
By Gustave Flaubert
CHAPTER I
In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It
was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep
valleys...
EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde by his rare and
woonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mightye Monarque. And
(f...
Alice Meynell
INTRODUCTION
Partial collections of English poems, decided by a common subject or
bounded by narrow dates and periods of literary history, are made at
very short inte...
Richard Harding Davis
When its turn came, the private secretary, somewhat apologetically, laid
the letter in front of the Wisest Man in Wall Street.
"From Mrs. Austin, probation of...