BY ERNEST BRAMAH
A lively and amusing collection of letters on western living written by
Kong Ho, a Chinese gentleman. These addressed to his homeland, refer to
the Westerners in L...
by PROSPER MERIMEE
CHAPTER I
I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what
they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in
the county ...
FOREWORD
It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity
in the average person's mind mean one and the same thing. Several years
ago I published a South Sea ...
by William Congreve
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, ONE OF THE LORDS OF THE
TREASURY.
Sir,--I heartily wish this play were as perfect as I intended it, that
it might be m...
by W. Somerset Maugham Author of "Of Human Bondage"
Chapter I
I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I
never for a moment discerned that there was in...
TRANSLATED BY THE REV. H. F. CARY, A.M.
CANTO I
IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood,
astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no ea...