by David Cory
The Magic Comb
One bright morning in August little Mary Louise put on her hat and went
trudging across the meadow to the beach.
It was the first time she had been tru...
By Charles Kingsley
PREFACE
I should not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a
subject as that which I have tried to treat in this book. The subject
was chosen by...
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most
terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought
already that God's cu...
by Charles Kingsley
PREFACE
The rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or
political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these
Lectures, to say ...
HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley
DEDICATION
To Madame la Duchesse de Castries.
CHAPTER I
The commercial traveller, a personage unknown to antiquity,...
Lewis Carroll
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped i...