MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN PART I THE YATES PRIDE Opposite Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and a...

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON & LLOYD OSBOURNE PREFACE 'Nothing like a little judicious levity,' says Michael Finsbury in the text: nor can any better excuse be found for the volume in the reader's hand. T...

L. Frank Baum Introduction Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, ma...

Anna Katharine Green I THE WOMAN WITH THE DIAMOND I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest--up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suff...

ANTON CHEKHOV THE WITCH IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at ...

G. K. CHESTERTON To LUCIAN OLDERSHAW ONE The Absence of Mr Glass THE consulting-rooms of Dr Orion Hood, the eminent criminologist and specialist in certain moral disorders, lay along the sea-front a...

William Shakespeare 1611 Dramatis Personae LEONTES, King of Sicilia MAMILLIUS, his son, the young Prince of Sicilia CAMILLO, lord of Sicilia ANTIGONUS, " " " CLEOMENES, " " " DION, " " " POLIXENES...

KENNETH GRAHAME AUTHOR OF "THE GOLDEN AGE," "DREAM DAYS," ETC. CHAPTER I. THE RIVER BANK The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home. First with brooms, the...

A Comedy in Three Acts J. M. SYNGE ACT I [Roadside with big stones, etc., on the right; low loose wall at back with gap near centre; at left, ruined doorway of church with bushes beside it. Martin D...

Eliot Gregory CHAPTER 1 - "UNCLE SAM" THE gentleman who graced the gubernatorial arm-chair of our state when this century was born happened to be an admirer of classic lore and the sonorous names of a...