Anna Sewell
[English Quaker -- 1820-1878.]
[Note: `Black Beauty' was originally published in 1877. This etext was
transcribed from an American edition of 1911. Some small correctio...
Anton Checkov
ACT I
The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the
facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad
semicircular lawn,...
By RUDYARD KIPLING
THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS
The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was
a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C. S. I. Indeed, his friends told him that ...
by Mark Twain
I
It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town
in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched
during three generation...
Andrew Lang
TO THE VISCOUNTESS WOLSELEY
Madame, it is no modish thing, The bookman's tribute that I bring; A
talk of antiquaries grey, Dust unto dust this many a day, Gossip of
tex...