A Bicycle of Cathay

Frank Richard Stockton

by Frank R. Stockton In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still ...

Frank Richard Stockton

* * * * * In the ancient country of Orn, there lived an old man who was called the Bee-man, because his whole time was spent in the company of bees.

Frank Richard Stockton

A Greenhorn under the Black Flag

Frank Richard Stockton

CHAPTER I TWO YOUNG PEOPLE, A SHIP, AND A FISH The month was September and the place was in the neighbourhood of Bridgetown, in the island of Barbadoes.

Niccolò Machiavelli

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Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI APPENDIX A PARODY PREFACE In the month of ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

Hermann Hesse

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