BY HORATIO ALGER, JR.
CHAPTER I.
OUT IN A STORM.
"What do you think of this storm, Joe?"
"I think it is going to be a heavy one, Ned. I wish we were back home,"
replied Joe B...
by AMBROSE BIERCE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and
wascontinued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.In thatyear
a larg...
(or The Romance of Monte Beni) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Volume I
CHAPTER I
MIRIAM, HILDA, KENYON, DONATELLO
Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the
reade...
STORIES OF BOY-LIFE IN THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT
SUN
HJALMAR HJORTH BOYESEN
THE BATTLE OF THE RAFTS
THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR
A deadly feud was raging among the boys of Numedale. Th...
by Jack London (1876-1916) 1913
CHAPTER I
It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California
afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the
ranc...
H. James
Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly
changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to
me everything is so perfectly...
by Henry James
CHAPTER I
"Won't you stay a little longer?" the hostess asked while she held the
girl's hand and smiled. "It's too early for every one to go-- it's too
absurd." Mrs....
LEO TOLSTOY
Translated by CJ HOGARTH
A SLOW JOURNEY
Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe.
In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid...