Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I Motives to the present work--Reception of the Author's first publication--Discipline of his taste at school--Effect of contemporary writers on youthful minds--Bowles's Sonn...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1908 PREFATORY NOTE The text of the poems in this volume is that of J. Dykes Campbell in the Globe edition of Coleridge's poems.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.