An Old Town By the Sea

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Chapter One--In Which I Introduce Myself This is the story of a bad boy.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

TO FRANCIS BARTLETT THESE miscellaneous notes and essays are called _Ponkapog Papers_ not simply because they chanced, for the most part, to be written within the limits of the old Indian Reserv...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH I CALL it an old town, but it is only relatively old.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

NEAR RYE, N.H. August 8, 1872.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.