by Rev. A. J. O'Reilly, D.D. Introduction The Penitent Saints The interesting and instructive character of this sensational narrative, which we cull from the traditions of a past generation, must cove...

by Willa Cather CHAPTER I Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very of...

The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. "Ho! ho!" quoth he, "that's for me," and soon rooted...

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by James Fenimore Cooper CHAPTER I. Certain moral philosophers, with a due disdain of the flimsy foundations of human pride, have shown that every man is equally descended from a million of ancestors,...

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by Plato INTRODUCTION. In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real defence of Socrates, there are no means of determining. It certainly agrees in tone and character with the description o...

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by Ayn Rand PART ONE It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alo...