by H. G. Wells
PREFACE
This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious
belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is
not, indeed, Christianity at all; its ...
BY HONORE DE BALZAC
Translated By Ellen Marriage
DEDICATION
To M. le Baron Barchou de Penhoen.Among all the pupils of the Oratorian
school at Vendome, we are, I think, the only two who have afterwar...
by Henrik Ibsen
Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp
ACT I
(SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand wall,
and two in the right. In the middle of the room, a round table with
c...
FIRST CHAPTER
IT happened in this wise -
But, sitting with my pen in my hand looking at those words again,
without descrying any hint in them of the words that should follow, it
comes into my mind tha...
Arranged with introduction by Francis Turner
Palgrave
PREFACE
ROBERT HERRICK - Born 1591 : Died 1674
Those who most admire the Poet from whose many pieces a selection only
is here offered, will, it ...
By Daniel Defoe
Sir,
I find so much left to speak of, and so many things to say in every part
of England, that my journey cannot be barren of intelligence which way
soever I turn; no, though I were ...
March 4th, 1933
President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends:
This is a day of national consecration, and I am certain that my
fellow-Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I w...
ELECBOOK
CLASSICS
FRANKENSTEIN
or
The Modern Prometheus
Mary Shelley
ELECBOOK CLASSICS
ebc067. Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
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...
By John Milton
L'ALLEGRO
HENCE, loathed Melancholy, ............Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight
born In Stygian cave forlorn ............'Mongst horrid shapes, and
shrieks, and sights unholy! Find o...
by Louisa May Alcott
"Pondering shadows, colors, clouds Grass-buds, and caterpillar
shrouds Boughs on which the wild bees settle, Tints that spot the
violet's petal."
FLOWER FABLES.
THE summer moo...