By Mark Twain CHAPTER I - SOLDIER BOY - PRIVATELY TO HIMSELF I am Buffalo Bill's horse. I have spent my life under his saddle - with him in it, too, and he is good for two hundred pounds, without his ...

By J. H. WISDOM & MARR MURRAY FOREWORD THIS novel, known as one of the masterpieces of Russian Literature, under the title "A Hero of our Time," and already translated into at least nine European lang...

by Edgar A. Guest To the Little Mother and the Memory of the Big Father, This Simple Book Is Affectionately Dedicated Just Folks We're queer folks here.We'll talk about the weather,The good times we h...

By Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I - THE ELEMENTS OF DISCORD: NATIVE THE story I have to tell is still going on as I write; the characters are alive and active; it is a piece of contemporary history ...

Oscar Wilde PREFACE BY ROBERT ROSS 'As to my personal attitude towards criticism, I confess in brief the following:- "If my works are good and of any importance whatever for the further development of...

by WILKIE COLLINS Charles Pineau Duclos was a French writer of biographies and novels, who lived and worked during the first half of the eighteenth century. He prospered sufficiently well, as a litera...

By William Morris CHAPTER I THE MEN OF KENT Sometimes I am rewarded for fretting myself so much about present matters by a quite unasked-for pleasant dream. I mean when I am asleep. This dream is as i...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame la Princesse Caroline Galitzin de Genthod, nee Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrances of The Author. A DRAMA ...

by Amy Lowell "Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity." Shelley, "Adonais". "Le silence est si grand que mon coeur en frissonne, Seul, le bruit de mes pas ...

By Philip Sidney INTRODUCTION Philip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of North...