by Charles Dickens I. Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generali...

Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: From the writing & Pictures of Howard Pyle: Compiled by Merle Johnson Chapter I BUCCANEERS AND MAROONERS OF THE SPANISH...

Arnold Bennett PREFACE TO THIS EDITION This preface, though placed at the beginning, as a preface must be, should be read at the end of the book. I have received a large amount of correspondence con...

BY SARA CONE BRYANT To My Mother THE FIRST, BEST STORY-TELLER THIS LITTLE BOOK IS DEDICATED PREFACE The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to...

William Shakespeare 1602 DRAMATIS PERSONAE PRIAM, King of Troy His sons: HECTOR TROILUS PARIS DEIPHOBUS HELENUS MARGARELON, a bastard son of Priam Trojan commanders: AENEAS ANTENOR CALCHAS, a Trojan p...

Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles The Prologue. Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus,* to all the followers of truth sendeth h...

by Charles Kingsley THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Let me begin this lecture {1} with a scene in the North Atlantic 863 years since. "Bjarne Grimolfson was blown with his ship into the Irish Ocean; ...

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August--the most terrible August in the history of the world. One might have thought already that God's curse hung heavy over ...

by Xenophon Translation by H. G. Dakyns I Once upon a time Simonides the poet paid a visit to Hiero the "tyrant,"[1] and when both obtained the liesure requisite, Simonides began this conversation: O...

By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Translated by Ellen Frothingham INTRODUCTORY NOTE There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness...