William Congreve TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RALPH, EARL OF MOUNTAGUE, ETC. My Lord,--Whether the world will arraign me of vanity or not, that I have presumed to dedicate this comedy to your lordship, I a...

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H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1898 BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANS CHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watc...

MARGARET DELAND CHAPTER I "Dr. Lavendar," said William King, "some time when Goliath is doing his 2.40 on a plank road, don't you want to pull him up at that house on the Perryville pike where the Gra...

O Henry THE VOICE OF THE CITY Twenty-five years ago the school children used to chant their lessons. The manner of their delivery was a singsong recitative between the utterance of an Episcopal minist...

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE PREFACE In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what o...

William MacLeod Raine CHAPTER 1 Of all the remote streams of influence that pour both before and after birth into the channel of our being, what an insignificant few--and these only the more obvious--...

Kate Douglas Wiggin INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION These days the name of Kate Douglas Wiggin is virtually unknown. But if one mentions the title "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," recogniti...

HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To David, Sculptor: The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your name-- twice made illustrious in this century--is very...

MAURICE MAETERLINCK Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos INTRODUCTION 1 My Essay on Death[1] led me to make a conscientious enquiry into the present position of the great mystery, an enquiry whi...