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...
by HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To Her Grace the Duchesse d'Abrantes, from her devoted servant, Honore
de Balzac. PARIS, August 1835.
In the early s...
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...
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...