[A Book of Raffles' Adventures] by E. W. Hornung Out of Paradise If I must tell more tales of Raffles, I can but back to our earliest days together, and fill in the blanks left by discretion in exis...

ELECBOOK CLASSICS A TALE OF TWO CITIES Charles Dickens ELECBOOK CLASSICS ebc0014. Charles Dickens: A Tale Of Two Cities This file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or ...

By Anna Katharine Green CHAPTER I A NOVEL CASE "Talking of sudden disappearances the one you mention of Hannah in that Leavenworth case of ours, is not the only remarkable one which has come under my ...

By Owen Wister To Edward and Anna Martin who give help in time of trouble CHAPTER I: Concerning One's Letter Box Publish any sort of conviction related to these morose days through which we are livi...

MARGRET HOWTH. A STORY OF TO-DAY "My matter hath no voice to alien ears." TO MY MOTHER. CHAPTER I. Let me tell you a story of To-Day,--very homely and narrow in its scope and aim. Not of the To-Day wh...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Laure. Let the brilliant mind that gave me the subject of this Scene have the honor of it. Her brother, De Balzac CHAPTER ...

By Gustave Flaubert CHAPTER I For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, i...

Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell A SECOND HOME The Rue du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the l...

by Wilkie Collins INTRODUCTORY WORDS. The following pages were written more than twenty years since, and were then published periodically in _Household Words._ In the original form of publication the ...

Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text BY JAMES LEGGE PREFACE Several times during my long residence in Hong Kong I endeavoured to read through the "Narrative of Fa-hie...