by Booth Tarkington
Chapter One
The young Frenchman did very well what he had planned to do. His guess
that the Duke would cheat proved good. As the unshod half- dozen figures
that had been standing n...
by Wilkie Collins
PERSONS OF THE STORY.
Sir Joseph Graybrooke. . . . . . . . . .(Knight) Richard Turlington .
. . .
(Of the Levant Trade) Launcelot Linzie . .(Of the College of Surgeons)
James Dicas. ...
VOLUME III.
LORD MACAULAY.
CONTENTS.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
Francis Atterbury. (December 1853) John Bunyan. (May 1854)
Oliver Goldsmith. (February 1856) Samuel Johnson. (...
VOLUME I.
LORD MACAULAY
PREFACE.
Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his
miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should represent
him after his death. And latterly h...
by George Bernard Shaw
Johnny Tarleton, an ordinary young business man of thirty or less, is
taking his weekly Friday to Tuesday in the house of his father, John
Tarleton, who has made a great deal of...
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By Donn-Byrne
(1889-1928)
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF MESSER MARCO POLO
So Celtic in feeling and atmosphere are the stories of Donn Byrne that
many of his devotees have come to believe that he never liv...
Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks,
'whether virtue can be taught.' Socrates replies that he does not as yet
know what ...
by Amy Lowell
Preface
This is a book of stories. For that reason I have excluded all purely
lyrical poems. But the word "stories" has been stretched to its fullest
application. It includes both narrat...