BY HORATIO ALGER, JR. CHAPTER I. OUT IN A STORM. "What do you think of this storm, Joe?" "I think it is going to be a heavy one, Ned. I wish we were back home," replied Joe Bodley, as he looked ...

BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, LL.D. Near the northeast corner of the old Common of Boston a section of ground was put apart long before the beginning of the eighteenth century to be a burying ground for so...

Anton Checkov ACT I The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths le...

Robert Louis Stevenson. 1905 Edition. CONTENT A south sea bridal The Ban The Missionary Devil-work Night in the bush The Bottle Imp The Isle of voices THE BEACH OF FALESA. CHAPTER I. A SOUTH SEA B...

By William Congreve TO THE HONOURED AND WORTHILY ESTEEM'D MRS. KATHARINE LEVESON. Madam, A Clear Wit, sound Judgment and a Merciful Disposition, are things so rarely united, that it is almost inex...

By Henry Lawson Preface Most of the verses contained in this volume were first published in the Sydney `Bulletin'; others in the Brisbane `Boomerang', Sydney `Freeman's Journal', `Town and Country Jou...

CHAPTER I It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie--she should know a great many person...

MIRIAM MICHELSON I. When the thing was at its hottest, I bolted. Tom, like the darling he is--(Yes, you are, old fellow, you're as precious to me as--as you are to the police--if they could only get t...

by Lord Dunsany [Edward John Plunkett] DRAMATIS PERSONAE JOHN BEAL MARY BEAL LIZA ALI BERT, BILL: two railway porters THE MAN IN THE CORNER MIRALDA CLEMENT HAFIZ EL ALCOLAHN DAOUD ARCHIE BEAL BAZZAL...

CHAPTER I Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found ...