John Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In this, the third series of Breakfast-Table conversations, a slight dramatic background shows off a few talkers and writers, aided by certain silent supernumeraries.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(Reprinted from the Atlantic Monthly of September, 1858) With numerous original illustrations by Thomas McIlvaine Frederick A. Stokes Company 1897 [Illustration: 008] [Illustration: 013] [I...

Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths.

Niccolò Machiavelli

by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.

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

FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the sha...