Coming Home 1916

Edith Wharton

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Edith Wharton

JTABLE 6 18 1 JTABLE 6 16 19 Book I I. On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

Edith Wharton

Chapter 1 Selden paused in surprise.

Edith Wharton

in a familiar place.

Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.