by Gilbert K. Chesterton
THE TALE OF THE PEACOCK TREES
Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish
extraction. His English education, at one of the great ...
by Lao-Tse
translated by James Legge
PART 1.
Ch. 1. 1. The Tao that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging
Tao. The name that can be named is not the enduring and unch...
by John Galt
INTRODUCTION
In the same year, and on the same day of the same month, that his Sacred
Majesty King George, the third of the name, came to his crown and
kingdom, I was ...
by Honore de Balzac
Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring
DEDICATION
"Et nunc et semper dilectoe dicatum."
LOUIS LAMBERT
Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in th...
By J. Henri Fabre
CHAPTER I: THE BLACK- BELLIED TARANTULA
The Spider has a bad name: to most of us, she represents an odious,
noxious animal, which every one hastens to crush under...
By H. H. Munro
CHAPTER I
FRANCESCA BASSINGTON sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue
Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China
tea and small cre...