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

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 ...

All children, except one, grow up.

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...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I rem...

was published in 1690.

1. The Cyclone Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army.

CHAPTER I. APPEARANCE AND REALITY Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

With an Introduction by W. L. Courtney, LL.D. The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd.

deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

Contents Mowgli's Brothers Hunting-Song of the Seeonee Pack Kaa's Hunting Road-Song of the Bandar-Log "Tiger!

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) CANTICLE I: INFERNO CREDITS The base text for this edition has been provided by Di...

CHAPTER VI. THE INQUEST CHAPTER VII. POIROT PAYS HIS DEBTS CHAPTER VIII. FRESH SUSPICIONS CHAPTER IX. DR. BAUERSTEIN CHAPTER X. THE ARREST CHAPTER XI. THE CASE FOR TH...

INTRODUCTION Sir Thomas More, son of Sir John More, a justice of the King's Bench, was born in 1478, in Milk Street, in the city of London.

TRIFLES THE OUTSIDE THE VERGE INHERITORS TRIFLES First performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre, Provincetown, Mass., August 8, 1916.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY PART I Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary.

PREFACE I have carefully collected whatever I have been able to learn of the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you, knowing that you will thank me for it.

ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1 degree S. and longitude 107 degrees W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months a...

CHAPTER 1. A Not Unnatural Enterprise This is written from memory, unfortunately.

By Hans Christian Andersen CONTENTS The Emperor's New Clothes The Swineherd The Real Princess The Shoes of Fortune The Fir Tree The Snow Queen The Leap-Frog ...

EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY THOMAS MARC PARROTT, PH.D. PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY THIS EDITION PUBLISHED 1906 PREFACE It has been the aim of the editor in prep...

By Lord Byron List of Contents To Ianthe Canto the First Canto the Second Canto the Third Canto the Fourth TO IANTHE.

Chapter 1 It was in 1590--winter.

INTRODUCTION The greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men ...

Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf And The Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb...

Pope's life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked.

[Greek: homôs de kai en toutois dialampei to kalon, epeidan pherê tis eukolôs pollas kai megalas atychias, mê di analgêsian, alla gennadas ôn kai megalopsychos.] Aristotle's 'Ethics,' I., xi.

CHRISTIAN DE NEUVILLETTE COUNT DE GUICHE RAGUENEAU LE BRET CARBON DE CASTEL-JALOUX THE CADETS LIGNIERE DE VALVERT A MARQUIS SECOND MARQUIS THIRD MARQUIS MONTFLEURY BELLEROSE JODELET CUIGY BRISSAILL...

Note: Please see Project Gutenberg's eBook #17405 for a version of this eBook without the Giles commentary (that is, with only the Sun Tzu text).

CHAPTER I.--The Cyclone.

PART I. The Wild Land I One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

CHAPTER ONE THE COMING OF THE CLOCKWORK MAN I It was just as Doctor Allingham had congratulated himself upon the fact that the bowling was broken, and that he had only to hit now and save the t...

CHAPTER I THE STRANGE MAN'S ARRIVAL The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bram...

1. Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and refo...

CHAPTER 1 -- Pudd'nhead Wins His Name _Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick._ --Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the M...

Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) KOREAN FOLK TALES IM...

Chapter 1 The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

185 CHAPTER XIV THE PIRATE SHIP 201 CHAPTER XV 'HOOK OR ME THIS TIME' 214 CHAPTER XVI THE RETURN HOME 232 CHAPTER XVII WHEN WENDY GREW UP ...

To the Memory of John Stuart Mill from whom I first learned the pragmatic openness of mind and whom my fancy likes to picture as our leader were he alive to-day.

By LEOPOLD VON SACHER-MASOCH Translated from the German By FERNANDA SAVAGE INTRODUCTION Leopold von Sacher-Masoch was born in Lemberg, Austrian Galicia, on January 27, 1836.

By E. Nesbit "It may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.

DISPUTES with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksome; except, perhaps, those with persons, entirely disingenuous, who really do not believe the opin...

I The most high gods have decided that too much power over the hearts of men shall not be given to other men, for then the givers are forgotten in the gift and the smoke dies away from the altars.

CHAPTER 1 How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

ÆSOP'S FABLES A NEW TRANSLATION BY V. S. VERNON JONES WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY G. K. CHESTERTON AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM 1912 EDITION INTRODUCTION _Æsop embodies an epigr...

Chapter 1.I. Very early morning.

Part 1--The Tragedy of Birlstone Chapter 1--The Warning "I am inclined to think--" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Copyright, 1894, by HARPER and BROTHERS Copyright 1893, 1894, by THE CENTURY CO.