by Honore de Balzac (transl. Clara Bell and others) DEDICATION To Monsieur le Baron James de Rothschild, Banker and Austrian Consul-General at Paris. The word /lorette/ is a euphemism invented to de...

by L. Cranmer-Byng [Note on text: Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Some slight errors have been corrected.] [Due to the method of transliteration used in this text, including many accent m...

William Shakespeare 1609 From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale, My spirits t'attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale...

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Summary Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor. 1 Sara Once on a dark ...

BY JOHN FOX, JR. CONTENTS I. The Blight in the Hills II. On the Wild Dog's Trail III. The Auricular Talent of the Hon.Samuel Budd IV. Close Quarters V. Back to the Hills VI. The Great Day VII. At Last...

by L. Frank Baum Santa Claus lives in the Laughing Valley, where stands the big, rambling castle in which his toys are manufactured. His workmen, selected from the ryls, knooks, pixies and fairies, li...

INCH KEITH I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to...

INTRODUCTION Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world, and sent back to this, which is the...

By Dickens, et.al. OVER THE WAY I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical man--very clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw i...

THE YOUNG KING [TO MARGARET LADY BROOKE - THE RANEE OF SARAWAK] It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers h...