By Cal Stewart Preface To the Reader. The one particular object in writing this book is to furnish you with an occasional laugh, and the writer with an occasional dollar. If you get the laugh you ...

Anton Checkov ACT I A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samovar, etc. Some benches and chairs stand ne...

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BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Monsieur le Comte Jules de Castellane. TEXT Leon de Lora, our celebrated landscape painter, belongs to one of the nobles...

Charlotte Bronte BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ELLIS AND ACTON BELL IT has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one p...

HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To Monsieur Victor Hugo, It was your birthright to be, like a Rafael or a Pitt, a great poet at an age when other men are children; it wa...

William Shakespeare 1595 ACT I. SCENE I. Verona. An open place Enter VALENTINE and PROTEUS VALENTINE. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affecti...

by Howard Pyle Introduction I found myself in Twilight Land. How I ever got there I cannot tell, but there I was in Twilight Land. What is Twilight Land? It is a wonderful, wonderful place where no su...

Translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder CONTENTS Introduction Goblin-story The Prince's Elopement. Whose fault was the resulting death of his parents-in-law? The Three Lovers who brought...

H. G. WELLS CONTENTS Filmer The Magic Shop The Valley of Spiders The Truth About Pyecraft Mr. Skelmersdale in Fairyland The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost Jimmy Goggles the God The N...