BY PADRAIC COLUM Part I. The Voyage to Colchis The Youth Jason A man in the garb of a slave went up the side of that mountain that is all covered with forest, the Mountain Pelion. He carried in his ...

BY ROSS KAY Preface Every normal boy loves a motor-boat, but words fail to express his enthusiasm when that boat is also a racer. Behind the events recorded in this story are certain facts, so that th...

by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated by Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To Eugene Delacroix, Painter. PREPARER'S NOTE The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferra...

by Virgil GEORGIC I What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of p...

PART I - THE SEED CHAPTER I - BLIND EYES IN THE FOREST HILARIUS stood at the Monastery gate, looking away down the smooth, well-kept road to the highway beyond. It lay quiet and serene in the June sun...

by FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Translated by CJ Hogarth I At length I returned from two weeks leave of absence to find that my patrons had arrived three days ago in Roulettenberg. I received from them a welc...

by Wilkie Collins First Scene The Ball-room Chapter 1. The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment is-- danci...

by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY A WORD TO HIM WHO OPENS THIS BOOK I did not plan when I began writing these chapters to make an entire book, but only to put down the more or less unusual impressions, the...

By DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS CHAPTER I ENTER MR. FEUERSTEIN On an afternoon late in April Feuerstein left his boarding-house in East Sixteenth Street, in the block just beyond the eastern gates of Stuyves...

BY LEO TOLSTOY PART FIRST I FEDOR MIHAILOVICH SMOKOVNIKOV, the president of the local Income Tax Department, a man of unswerving honesty--and proud of it, too-- a gloomy Liberal, a free-thinker, and a...