Old Is Gold

The Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American Short StoryI suppose there is no one of us who can honestly deny that he is interested in one way or another in the American short story. Indeed, it is hard to...

Les vivants et les mortsLE COEUR INNOMBRABLE (Ouvrage couronn par l'Acadmie franaise.) 1 vol. L'OMBRE DES JOURS 1 vol. LES EBLOUISSEMENTS 1 Vol. LA NOUVELLE ESPERANCE 1 vol. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 22054 Author: Noailles, Anna de Release Date: Jul...

The Love Affairs of an Old MaidIt is a pity that there is no prettier term to bestow upon a girl bachelor of any age than Old Maid. Spinster is equally uncomfortable, suggesting, as it does, corkscrew curls and immoderate attenuation of frame; while...

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and...

MemoirsIt happened once in Boston, in the year 1861 or 1862, that I was at a dinner of the Atlantic Club, such as was held every Saturday, when the question was raised as to whether any man had ever written a complete and candid...

Kept in the DarkThere came an episode in the life of Cecilia Holt which it is essential should first be told. When she was twenty-two years old she was living with her mother at Exeter. Mrs. Holt was a widow with comfortable means,ample that...

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National PolicyJOHN F. TROW, Publisher, 50 GREENE STREET, NEW YORK. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John F. Trow, in the Clerk's Office of the...

The Finer Grain [Transcribers Note: After posting it was discovered that there were several missing pages from the section titled Mora Montravers. This section has been removed and will be replaced as soon as possible.] HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted...

Propos de ville et propos de théâtreMademoiselle X... jouit d'une certaine rputation parmi ces messieurs qui, en parlant de ces dames disent ces cratures. Ladite demoiselle est particulirement note sur le Stud-Book des maquignons de Cythre, cause de sa chevelure qui fait songer au...

Le parfum des îles BorroméesLa Reine-Marguerite, beau vapeur blanc du lac Majeur, alluma ses feux en quittant Pallanza, et s'engagea dans l'anse magnifique qui contient les les Borromes. La chaleur ayant t accablante, les passagers se flicitaient de ressentir la premire fracheur du soir....

The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story CHAPTER I. In the Harbor CHAPTER II. The Girl on the Ship CHAPTER III. Some Discourtesies CHAPTER IV. A Foe and a Friend CHAPTER V. The Cousin CHAPTER VI. Murkand Murder CHAPTER VII. Evidence CHAPTER VIII. Lies...

The Path to Home The Path to Home There's the mother at the doorway, and the children at the gate, And the little parlor windows with the curtains white and straight. There are shaggy asters blooming in the bed that lines the fence, And...

We Three When I know that Lucy is going to Palm Beach for the winter I shall go to Aiken. When I know that she is going to Aiken, I shall go to Palm Beach. And I shall play the same game with Bar...

Sense and SensibilityWith the title of Sense and Sensibility is connected one of those minor problems which delight the cummin-splitters of criticism. In the Cecilia of Madame D'Arblaythe forerunner, if not the model, of Miss Austenis a sentence which at first sight suggests some...

The Black ColonelThe strangest thing about this tale is that it happened, though not, may be, as I here relate it; which is merely to seek, in a humble spirit, the great company of George Washington, who could not tella story! That of the...

L'automne d'une femmeUn remarquable roman de murs militaires a t publie, il y a quelques annes, par Mme Claire de Chandeneux, sous le titre: L'Automne d'une Femme. Nous devons a l'obligeance des hritiers de cet crivain le droit de conserver ce titre pour le...

A Desert Drama: Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko" This book has been materially enlarged and altered since its appearance in serial form A. Conan Doyle October 17, 1897 The public may possibly wonder why it is that they have never heard in the...

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 01To equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of...

Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 08 Formosos eram os tempos em que pelejavamos pela liberdade do povo; to formosos, quo negros estes em que a plebe peleja pela licena.A. HerculanoVoz do Propheta1836. Os breves artigos com que abre o presente tomo sob as...

Die Jungfrau von Treiden Title: Die Jungfrau von Treiden Author: Adelbert Cammerer Release Date: June 4, 2007 [EBook #21680] Language: German Credits: Produced by Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain...