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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,...

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

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...

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.

I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Franz Kafka Translated by David Wyllie I One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.

Transcribed from the 1915 Methuen & Co.

By Mrs. Mary Rowlandson The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed, being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson,...

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK Copyright, 1918, by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells [1898] I The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

BERNARD SHAW 1912 TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: In the printed version of this text, all apostrophes for contractions such as "can't", "wouldn't" and "he'd" were omitted, to read as "cant", "wouldnt", and ...

From The Quarto of 1604 Edited by The Rev.

wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices.

J. Sheridan LeFanu 1872 PROLOGUE _Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay...

Translated by Edmund Gosse and William Archer Introduction by William Archer INTRODUCTION.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Chapter I. Into the Primitive "Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain."

LIST OF THE PLATES _To face page_ Alice _Frontispiece_ The Pool of Tears ...

CHAPTER 1 The Case Stated 57 CHAPTER 2 Lynch-Law Statistics 65 CHAPTER 3 Lynching Imbeciles 73 CHAPTER 4 Lynching of Innocent Men 84 CHAPTER 5 Lynched for Anything or Nothin...

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

[Illustration] [Illustration: Preface] It is twenty years since I first determined to attempt the translation of _Faust_, in the original metres.

[Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_ 1901 INTRODUCTION...

1) 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; backwa...

THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS By J. M. Synge PREFACE In writing THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD, as in my other plays, I have used one or two words only that I ha...

It is the honourable characteristic of Poetry that its materials are to be found in every subject which can interest the human mind.

_by_ F. W. NIETZSCHE _Translated from the German with an introduction by_ H. L. MENCKEN ...

"Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning."

H. F. CARY, M.A. HELL Cantos 1 - 34 CANTO I IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e'en to tell It were no easy task...

[Transcriber's note: Anonymous, _Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover_ (1890) A classic Victorian erotic novel] Laura Middleton; HER BROTHER AND HER LOVER.

_"He had been Tim's blood horse all the way from church."_ Frontispiece _"A Merry Christmas, Uncle!

TABLE OF CONTENTS: HOW THE WHALE GOT HIS THROAT HOW THE CAMEL GOT HIS HUMP HOW THE RHINOCEROS GOT HIS SKIN HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS SPOTS THE ELEPHANT'S CHILD THE SING...

SOPHOCLES OEDIPUS THE KING Translation by F. Storr, BA Formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge From the Loeb...

INTRODUCTION To the irreverent--and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?--there is something very amusing in the attitude of the orthodox criticism toward ...

Dramatis Personae Chorus.

Dramatis Personae: FERDINAND [Duke of Calabria].

ACT I (SCENE.--DR. STOCKMANN'S sitting-room.

DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD OF RIGHTLY CONDUCTING THE REASON, AND SEEKING TRUTH IN THE SCIENCES by Rene Descartes PREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR If this...

THE ÆSOP FOR CHILDREN [Illustration: THE COCK AND THE FOX Fable, Page 58] The ÆSOP for CHILDREN WITH PICTURES BY MILO WINTER [Illustration] RAND MCNALLY & CO.

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

She Stoops To Conquer; Or, The Mistakes Of A Night.

I The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

PARADISE Complete TRANSLATED BY THE REV.

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

To which is added, THE NARRATIVE OF ASA-ASA, A CAPTURED AFRICAN.

Anne Boykin, PhD, RN Dean and Professor Director, Christine E. Lynn Center for Caring College of Nursing Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida Savina O. Schoenhofer, PhD P...

CHAPTER I. A Boarding School.

Edited by two of her friends MABEL LOOMIS TODD and T.W. HIGGINSON PREFACE.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926.

CONTENTS I THE EXPERIMENT II MR. CLARKE'S MEMOIRS III THE CITY OF RESURRECTIONS IV THE DISCOVERY IN PAUL STREET V THE LETTER OF ADVICE VI THE SUICIDES VII THE ENCOUNTER...

Transcribed from the 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition--first edition (London Magazine) text, by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER: BEING AN E...