L. Frank Baum
"TWIXT YOU AND ME
The Army of Children which besieged the Postoffice, conquered the
Postmen and delivered to me its imperious Commands, insisted that Trot
and Cap'n Bill be admitted to...
by William Makepeace Thackeray
PRELUDE
It happened that the undersigned spent the last Christmas season in a
foreign city where there were many English children.
In that city, if you wanted to give ...
by Michael Fairless
The Roadmender
CHAPTER I
I HAVE attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both
titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day
I sit by ...
In which is related how Dorothy Gale of Kansas, The Shaggy Man, Button
Bright, and Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter met on an Enchanted Road
and followed it all the way to the Marvelous Land of Oz.
b...
THE RHYTHM OF LIFE
If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity
rules over the mental experience of man, according to the path of the
orbit of his thoughts. Distances are not g...
by A.A. Milne
TO JOHN VINE MILNE MY DEAR FATHER,
Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories,
and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have
done ...
An Episode of the American Civil War
Stephen Crane
CHAPTER I.
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs
revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape...
Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many
a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly
napping, suddenly there came a tapping, ...
William Shakespeare
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLY,EARL OF SOUTHHAMPTON, AND BARON
OF TICHFIELD.
THE love I dedicate to your lordship is without end; whereof this
pamphlet, without beginning...
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