By Charles Dickens CHAPTER I--HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS Whoever would begin to be worried with letting Lodgings that wasn't a lone woman with a living to get is a thing inconceivab...

By OWEN WISTER TO MY FAVOURITE BROKER WITH THE EARNEST ASSURANCE THAT MR. BEVERLY IS NOT MEANT FOR HIM When handsome young Richard Field--he was very handsome and very young-- announced to our assem...

by Frank Norris DEDICATED TO Captain Joseph Hodgson UNITED STATES LIFE SAVING SERVICE CHAPTER I SHANGHAIED This is to be a story of a battle, at least one murder, and several sudden deaths. For that...

BY JACK LONDON MOON-FACE John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek- bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad...

A COMEDY IN ONE ACT PEOPLE IN THE PLAY ALICE GARDNER: Daughter of James K. Gardner, President of the L.I. & W. Railroad "UNCLE" JOSEPH HATCH: Alias "Gentleman Joe" "BRICK" MEAKIN: Alias "Reddy, the ...

BY CHARLES DICKENS THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST The present Government, having shown itself to be particularly clever in its management of Indictments for Conspiracy, cannot do better, we think (keeping ...

BY HOUDINI AUTHOR A CHAPTER ONE FIRE WORSHIP.--FIRE EATING AND HEAT RESISTANCE.--IN THE MIDDLE AGES. --AMONG THE NAVAJO INDIANS.-- FIRE- WALKERS OF JAPAN.--THE FIERY ORDEAL OF FIJI. Fire has always be...

MEN'S WIVES By William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER I. WHICH IS ENTIRELY INTRODUCTORY - CONTAINS AN ACCOUNT OF MISS CRUMP, HER SUITORS, AND HER FAMILY CIRCLE. In a certain quiet and sequestered nook of...

A CONTINUATION OF SOCRATES' DIALOGUE WITH MENO IN WHICH THE BOY PROVES ROOT 2 IS IRRATIONAL Socrates: Well, here we are at the appointed time, Meno. Meno: Yes, and it looks like a fine day for it, t...

by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett APPENDIX I. It seems impossible to separate by any exact line the genuine writings of Plato from the spurious. The only external evidence to them which is of m...