by Jerome K. Jerome CHAPTER I I had a vexing dream one night, not long ago: it was about a fortnight after Christmas. I dreamt I flew out of the window in my nightshirt. I went up and up. I was glad t...

by Charles Kingsley PREFACE The rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be...

by Mary Roberts Rinehart CHAPTER I The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the same things. Characters ...

by Richard Harding Davis I It was February off the Banks, and so thick was the weather that, on the upper decks, one could have driven a sleigh. Inside the smoking- room Austin Ford, as securely shelt...

BY E. W. HORNUNG THE IDES OF MARCH I It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still s...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley DEDICATION To Madame Josephine Delannoy nee Doumerc. Madame, may God grant that this, my book, may live longer than I, for then the grat...

BY H. BARBER (CAPTAIN, ROYAL FLYING CORPS) MOTIVE The reasons impelling me to write this book, the maiden effort of my pen, are, firstly, a strong desire to help the ordinary man to understand the Aer...

BY MARK TWAIN PREFACE MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from ...

BY THORNTON W. BURGESS Granny Fox Gives Reddy a Scare Reddy Fox lived with Granny Fox. You see, Reddy was one of a large family, so large that Mother Fox had hard work to feed so many hungry little mo...

BY A. CONAN DOYLE PREFACE I hope that some readers may possibly be interested in these little tales of the Napoleonic soldiers to the extent of following them up to the springs from which they flow....