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Twenty-Five Ghost StoriesThis collection of ghost stories owes its publication to an interest that I have long felt in the supernatural and in works of the imagination. As a child I was deeply concerned in tales of spooks, haunted houses, wraiths and specters and...

A History of Story-telling: Studies in the development of narrativeThis is a spring day, and I am writing in a flood of sunlight in front of a brown French inn. Above my head there is the dusty branch of a tree stuck out of...

A Manual of the Art of FictionThis MANUAL OF THE ART OF FICTION is a revised and amplified edition of Materials and Methods of Fiction, by Clayton Hamilton, which was first published in 1908. The earlier work was immediately recognized as an important piece...

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may...

An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern TimesThomas Hill Green was born in Birkin, Yorkshire, April 7, 1836. His early education was acquired first at home under his father, the rector of Birkin, then at Rugby, where he...

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin - Being excerpts from rare, curious and diverting booksTwo Hundred and fifty Copies of this Work have been Printed on Hand-made Paper for Private Circulation Only among Members of the Brovan Society, and Twenty-five for the Editors....

Aventures de Baron de MünchausenLes Aventures du baron de Mnchhausen jouissent en Allemagne d'une clbrit populaire qu'elles ne sauraient manquer, nous l'esprons du moins, d'acqurir bientt en France, malgr leur forte saveur germanique, et peut-tre cause mme de cela: le gnie des peuples se...

Baron von Münchhausens merkværdige reiser og eventyr Hvem der har skrevet denne merkelige bok har vret omtvistet. Det er dog nu saagodtsom bragt utenfor al tvil at boken er av tysk herkomst, endskjnt den frste gang blev utgit i England. Efter de seneste forskninger...

Boresko kaunotar y.m. kertomuksiaMeidn leiripaikkamme oli Balkan-vuorten rinteell muutamia virstoja Shipka-solan plinnoituksesta. Toimenamme oli helpottaa itse solassa majailevien osastojen vaivaloista vartioimista joko astumalla vuorotellen heidn sijaansa tahi vaaran uhatessa rientmll heille avuksi. Suleiman Pashan raivoisat hykkykset, joissa enin osa hnen kelpo sotajoukkoansa tuli tuhotuksi,...

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookAaron (St.), a British martyr of the City of Legions (Newport, in South Wales). He was torn limb from limb by order of Maximian'us Hercu'lius, general...

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookA number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the...

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 2 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookAn American reprint of The Readers Handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories, by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D., of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, has been...

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama, Vol. 4 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookThe original volume promised many illustrations. However, the edition used here had none of them. The List of Illustrations is retained; however, the pages indicated, which...

De verrezen Gulliver; - behelzende de zonderlinge reizen en avonturen, van den baron van Munchhausen, In Rusland, Ysland, Turkije, Egipte, Gibraltar, in de Kaspische, Middellandsche en Atlantische Zeëen, en door het middenpunt van den berg Etna naa de Zuid-zeeOverduidelijke druk- en spelfouten in het...

Devil Stories: An AnthologyOf all the myths which have come down to us from the East, and of all the creations of Western fancy and belief, the Personality of Evil has had the strongest attraction for the mind of man. The Devil is the...

Die Theorie des Romans - Ein geschichtsphilosophischer Versuch über die Formen der großen EpikSelig sind die Zeiten, fr die der Sternenhimmel die Landkarte der gangbaren und zu gehenden Wege ist und deren Wege das Licht der Sterne erhellt. Alles ist neu fr sie und...

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Drei Meister: Balzac, Dickens, DostojewskiAnmerkungen zur Transkription: Es wurde grte Sorgfalt darauf verwendet den Text originalgetreu zu bertragen. Unbliche und uneinheitliche Schreibweisen der Namen wurden beibehalten. Lediglich offensichtliche Fehler wurden korrigiert. Smtliche vorgenommenen nderungen sind markiert, der Originaltext erscheint beim berfahren mit der Maus....

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellersn compiling this volume of Eastern Tales, the Editor has been careful to select only those best suited to youthful readers. They have been gathered from both ancient and modern, French, Italian, and English sources, and therefore offer great...

Essays on Modern NovelistsSome of the essays in this volume have appeared in recent numbers of various periodicals. The essays on "Mark Twain" and "Thomas Hardy" were originally printed in the North American Review; those on "Mrs. Ward" and "Rudyard Kipling," in the Forum;...