ARTHUR RANSOME INTRODUCTION I am well aware that there is material in this book which will be misused by fools both white and red. That is not my fault. My object has been narrowly limited. I have tri...

by Kate Douglas Wiggin THE PINE AND THE ROSE It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder- bushes where...

William Shakespeare 1595 THE PROLOGUE Enter Chorus. Chor. Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood make...

J. Walker McSpadden CHAPTER I HOW ROBIN HOOD BECAME AN OUTLAW List and hearken, gentlemen, That be of free-born blood, I shall you tell of a good yeoman, His name was Robin Hood. Robin was a proud out...

L. Frank Baum Introducing this Story Here is a story with a boy hero, and a boy of whom you have never before heard. There are girls in the story, too, including our old friend Dorothy, and some of ...

by Frank R. Stockton CHAPTER I. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF DWELLING HOUSE. For some months after our marriage, Euphemia and I boarded. But we did not like it. Indeed, there was no reason why we shou...

By B. M. BOWER CHAPTER 1 Lost in a Blizzard. "Rowdy" Vaughan--he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence t...

By SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE THE PREFACE. I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of me...

-A play in four acts by HENRIK IBSEN Translated by R. FARQUHARSON SHARP DRAMATIS PERSONAE John Rosmer, of Rosmersholm, an ex-clergyman. Rebecca West, one of his household, originally engaged as ...

BY A. H. JAPP PREFACE A FEW words may here be allowed me to explain one or two points. First, about the facsimile of last page of Preface to FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN AND BOOKS. Stevenson was in Davos w...