By J. M. Barrie
CHAPTER I - HOW MY MOTHER GOT HER SOFT FACE
On the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our
little house it was an event, the first great victo...
By B. M. Bower
CHAPTER I
IN SEARCH OF THE WESTERN TONE
"What do you care, anyway?" asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. "It
isn't as if you depended on the work for a living. Why wo...
H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1898
BOOK ONE
THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS
CHAPTER ONE
THE EVE OF THE WAR
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
that this ...
by Wu Tingfang, LL.D
Introduction:
While this book is by no means famous, it is a remarkable chance to look
at America of 1914 through the eyes of an outsider. Wu Tingfang shows
ev...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translator Ellen Marriage
To Monsieur le General Baron de Pommereul, a token of the friendship between our fathers, which survives in their sons.
There is a s...
by Henry James
We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single
masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had
known the divine afflatus an...
The Watsons
Jane Austen
ELECBOOK CLASSICS
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