The Lake Gun

James Fenimore Cooper

INTRODUCTION It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the information necessary to understand its allusions, are rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text itself, or i...

James Fenimore Cooper

THE PIONEERS Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna A Descriptive Tale By J. Fenimore Cooper INTRODUCTION As this work professes, in its title-page, to be a descriptive tale, they who will ta...

James Fenimore Cooper

seasons is unbroken.

James Fenimore Cooper

CHAPTER I "Mine ear is open, and my heart prepared: The worst is worldly loss thou canst unfold: Say, is my kingdom lost?"

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.