by Edwin A. Abbott 1884 PART 1 THIS WORLD SECTION 1 Of the Nature of Flatland I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

By Sara Teasdale To E. "Recois la flamme ou l'ombre De tous mes jours." CHAPTER I Blue Squills How many million Aprils came Before I ever knew How white a cherry bough could be, A bed of squills, how ...

by Susan Fenimore Cooper Part I. The natural position of woman is clearly, to a limited degree, a subordinate one. Such it has always been throughout the world, in all ages, and in many widely differe...

by Leo Tolstoy Trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude CHAPTER I In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone pred...

By Abram J. Ryan Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous. Song of the Mystic I walk down the Valley of Silence -- Down the dim, voiceless valley -- alone! And I hear not the fall of a footstep Ar...

By Ambrose Bierce, Aesopus Emendatus The Cat and the Youth The Farmer and His Sons Jupiter and the Baby Show The Man and the Dog The Cat and the Birds Mercury and the Woodchopper The Fox and the Grape...

Edgar Allen Poe During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a s...

By Robert Louis Stevenson CHAPTER I. - THE PERSONS OF THE TALE. AFTER the 32nd chapter of TREASURE ISLAND, two of the puppets strolled out to have a pipe before business should begin again, and met in...

by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE CHAPTER I. The Coming Of Lad In the mile-away village of Hampton, there had been a veritable epidemic of burglaries--ranging from the theft of a brand-new ash-can from the ste...

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