The Way of the World

William Congreve

A COMEDY _Audire est operæ pretium_, _procedere recte_ _Qui mæchis non vultis_.—HOR.

William Congreve

Transcribed from the 1895 Methuen and Co.

William Congreve

Transcribed from the 1895 Methuen and Co.

William Congreve

Transcribed from the 1895 Methuen and Co.

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.