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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