DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) CREDITS The base text for this edition has been provided by Digital Dante, a project sponsored by Columbia Universi...

DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) CANTICLE III: PARADISO Paradiso: Canto I The glory of Him who moveth everything Doth penetrate the universe, and sh...

By Sir Walter Raleigh INTRODUCTORY NOTE Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man of letters, h...

H. James Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I see...

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by HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Ellen Marriage DEDICATION To Her Grace the Duchesse d'Abrantes, from her devoted servant, Honore de Balzac. PARIS, August 1835. In the early spring of 1822, the P...

By RUDYARD KIPLING THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C. S. I. Indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. Fo...

By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT I There are always two ways of looking at a thing, frequently there are six or seven; but two ways of looking at a London fog are quite enough. When it is thick and yellow i...

BY BERNARD SHAW PREFACE TO THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS How the Play came to be Written I had better explain why, in this little _piece d'occasion_, written for a performance in aid of the funds of th...

BY DON MARQUIS CHAPTER I A BRIGHT BLADE LEAPS FROM A RUSTY SCABBARD On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colo...