By Chas Kingsley You are going down, perhaps, by railway, to pass your usual six weeks at some watering-place along the coast, and as you roll along think more than once, and that not over-cheerfully,...

by Henry James CHAPTER I Yes indeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from poi...

by Rene Doumic Translated by Alys Hallard First published in 1910. This volume is dedicated to Madame L. Landouzy with gratitude and affection This book is not intended as a study of George Sand. It i...

By Vachel Lindsay I [Bass drum beaten loudly.] Booth led boldly with his big bass drum -- (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely and they said: "He's come." (Are you wash...

HONORE DE BALZAC Translated By Clara Bell and others To know how to sell, to be able to sell, and to sell. People generally do not suspect how much of the stateliness of Paris is due to these three ...

by Honore de Balzac Translated by Clara Bell and James Waring DEDICATION To Monsieur le Marquis de Belloy It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the...

by Edwin L. Arnold CHAPTER I Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a woman--for a chimera...

by Nathaniel Hawthorne AUTHOR'S PREFACE IN writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style tha...

by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the ma...

By Charles Dickens At one period of its reverses, the House fell into the occupation of a Showman. He was found registered as its occupier, on the parish books of the time when he rented the House, an...