CHAPTER I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript
which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine,
certain chapters will in some dist...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Clara Bell
DEDICATION
Dedicated to Monsieur le Contre-Amiral Bazoche, Governor of the Isle of
Bourbon, by the grateful writer. DE BALZAC.
In 1...
By MISS MULOCK
CHAPTER I
Yes, he was the most beautiful Prince that ever was born.
Of course, being a prince, people said this; but it was true besides.
When he looked at the candl...
Translated by Gummere
I
Now Beowulf bode in the burg of the Scyldings, leader beloved, and long
he ruled in fame with all folk, since his father had gone away from the
world, till ...
by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Plunkett]
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
JOHN BEAL MARY BEAL LIZA ALI BERT, BILL: two railway porters THE MAN
IN THE CORNER MIRALDA CLEMENT HAFIZ EL ALCOLAHN DAOU...
IZAAK WALTON
To the Right worshipful
John Offley
of Madeley Manor, in the County of Stafford Esquire, My most honoured
Friend
Sir,-- I have made so ill use of your former favours...
by Richard Harding Davis
I
It was a dull day at the chancellery. His Excellency the American
Ambassador was absent in Scotland, unveiling a bust to Bobby Burns, paid
for by the num...
Jonathan Nield
"These historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks
like a truism, and yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and
others, till so taught: ...