William Shakespeare. THE PROLOGUE. The doubtful Title (Gentlemen) prefixt Upon the Argument we have in hand, May breed suspence, and wrongfully disturb The peaceful quiet of your settled thoughts. To ...

BY ELBERT HUBBARD LITTLE JOURNEYS Victor Hugo says, ``When you open a school, you close a prison.'' This seems to require a little explanation. Victor Hugo did not have in mind a theological schoo...

John C. Calhoun Mr. President: At the last session of Congress, it was avowed on all sides that the public debt, as to all practical purposes, was in fact paid, the small surplus remaining being nea...

FOREWORD It is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average person's mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action wa...

By B. M. BOWER CHAPTER I HOW TROUBLE CAME TO THE LAZY A Without going into a deep, psychological discussion of the elements in men's souls that breed events, we may say with truth that the Lazy A ranc...

by Helen Beecher Long CHAPTER I. WHEN MOTHER WAS A GIRL "Why, that is Arlo Junior. What can he be doing out of doors so early? And look at those cats following him. Did you ever!" Janice Day stared wo...

ELECBOOK CLASSICS ELECBOOK CLASSICS ebc0018. Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre This file is free for individual use only. It must not be altered or resold. Organisations wishing to use it must first ...

BY ELEANOR H.{HODGMAN} PORTER CHAPTER I THE MOUNTAIN HOME Far up on the mountain-side stood alone in the clearing. It was roughly yet warmly built. Behind it jagged cliffs broke the north wind, an...

BY HONORE DE BALZAC CHAPTER I EXPOSITION Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at...

by Jack London (1876-1916) 1913 CHAPTER I It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little vill...