By ALDOUS HUXLEY CHAPTER I. Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those statio...

by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION. The Crito seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting i...

By MAXIM GORKY INTRODUCTORY. By G. K. CHESTERTON. It is certainly a curious fact that so many of the voices of what is called our modern religion have come from countries which are not only simple, bu...

by B. M. BOWER CHAPTER ONE: AN AMBITIOUS MAN-CHILD WAS BUDDY In hot mid afternoon when the acrid, gray dust cloud kicked up by the listless plodding of eight thousand cloven hoofs formed the only blot...

BY J. STORER CLOUSTON CHAPTER I It is only with the politest affectation of interest, as a rule, that English Society learns the arrival in its midst of an ordinary Continental nobleman; but the annou...

by BRET HARTE HANDSOME IS AS HANDSOME DOES. BY CH--S R--DE. CHAPTER I. The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of the...

by Martin Luther LETTER OF MARTIN LUTHER TO POPE LEO X Among those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now for three years been waging war, I am sometimes compelled to look to you and to cal...

by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell COLONEL CHABERT "HULLO! There is that old Box-coat again!" This exclamation was made by a lawyer's clerk of the class called in French...

By William Wells Brown CHAPTER I THE SOUTHERN SOCIAL CIRCLE FOR many years the South has been noted for its beautiful Quadroon women. Bottles of ink, and reams of paper, have been used to portray the ...

by Chretien de Troyes, trans. L. J. Gardiner. INTRODUCTION IT is six hundred and fifty years since Chretien de Troyes wrote his Cliges. And yet he is wonderfully near us, whereas he is separated by ...