by Washington Irving What I write is most true...I have a whole booke of cases lying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients (within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity...

by William Sharp Note. In all important respects I leave this volume to speak for itself. For obvious reasons it does not pretend to be more than a `Memoire pour servir': in the nature of things, the ...

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by Rebecca Harding Davis "Is this the end? O Life, as futile, then, as frail! What hope of answer or redress?" A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before ...

By Andrew Lang DEDICATION Dear Mr. Way, After so many letters to people who never existed, may I venture a short one, to a person very real to me, though I have never seen him, and only know him by hi...

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by Jack London LOST FACE It was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian Amer...