Kerfol 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.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.