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Child of the SunThe animal instinct of escape prodded him, but he couldn't obey. He had fuel enough for one last burst of speed. But there was no way through that ring of ships. Tractor-beams, criss-crossing between them, would net the Falcon like a...

The Unforgiving OffenderAround a large circular table in the centre of the room were gathered a crowd of the younger members, who had sufficient youth in them to ignore rheumatism and neuralgia and the other penalties bred by damp flannels and wet shoes. They...

A Planet for Your ThoughtsWith the grape-headed Uvans acting as the brains of the Universe, Mankind no longer needed to think for itself. So when a freebooter like Bill Petrie began getting original ideas, he caused a crisis that threatened the cosmos. The first...

The MercurianI was new at it. They had sent me out with a pat on the back and a commission, but I didn't feel like a Mercury run officer. Mining uranium on the Sun's firstling was no job for a green kid of twenty-two....

Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of HamTranscribers Note: The reader may wish to be warned that this book contains racial stereotyping more than usually unpleasant even by the standards of its time. Read as far as the Dedication and use...

The Hypnotic Experiment of Dr. Reeves, and Other StoriesDr. Edward Reeves, the celebrated Rheumatism Specialist, is not a favourite with the members of his profession. His methods of treatment being unknown, coupled with his refusal as yet to divulge them, have given his enemies...

Kuningas Eerik ja lainsuojattomat: Historiallinen romaani. Edellinen osaSjllannin koillisella rannikolla, noin puoli peninkulmaa Gilleleijest, on Sjborgin kyl. Usein sattuu tll lapion- ja aurankrki kilahtamaan vanhojen rakennusten peruskiviin, ja tll nkee jtteit kivitetyist kaupunginkaduista, joiden nimi ei kukaan en muista, ja joilla nyt vilja it...

A Capillary Crime, and Other StoriesNEAR the summit of the hill in the Quartier Montmartre, Paris, is a little street in which the grass grows between the paving-stones, as in the avenues of some dead old Italian city. Tall buildings border it for about...

Harminc novella Most, mondta a hdtk ggjvel, most meghzasodom Az apr nyomorusgoknak -2- vge. Lesz pnz. Igazgat leszek a bankban. Azutn a gyrban. Mg husz ms helyen. Szzezreket kapok, megmarkolom ket s millikat fogok szerezni. Annyi pnzed lesz, amennyit akarsz Akarsz pnzt? Kapsz. Akkor...

The Soul of Ann Rutledge: Abraham Lincoln's RomanceMany writers have referred to it and to its moulding power on the lover's after life. Some have thrown sidelights on the character of the woman. Some have mentioned her rare gift of song and her unusual...

Keeping His CourseA boy with light blue eyes that just about matched the slightly hazy June sky sat on the float below the town landing at Greenhaven, L. I., and stared thoughtfully across harbor and bay to where, two miles northward, the village of...

A Yankee Girl at AntietamRoxana Delfield, wearing a dress of blue-checked gingham, stout leather shoes and white stockings, and a broad-rimmed hat of rough straw, ran down the narrow path that led from her Grandmother Millers farm to the highway leading to the little...

PositionsMy booke by the very argument, most excellent princesse, pretendeth a common good, bycause it concerneth the generall traine and bringing vp of youth, both to enrich their minds with learning, and to enable their bodies with health: and it craues the fauour of...

Les amours du chevalier de Faublas, tome 3/5L'auguste crmonie s'achevoit. Dans un discours qui m'avoit paru long, l'loquent ministre venoit de nous recommander des vertus que je ne croyois pas difficiles. Sophie me nommoit son poux; ma bouche rptoit Sophie un serment qu'avouoit mon...

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 2 (of 2) The text may show quotations within quotations, all set off by similar quote marks. The inner quotations have been changed to alternate quote marks for improved readability. This book was written in a...

Szép Mikhál: RegényNagytisztelet s tuds Frlich Dvid uram hirt messze fld ismer azon idkben, tudniillik ezerhatszz tven tjn, a mikor Magyarorszgon egsz rsekjvrig s Egerig a trk szultn, innen Nagyvradig s a Szepessgig a rmai csszr, Vradtl a szkely fldig pedig Rkczy Gyrgy erdlyi...

Jean-Christophe, Volume 4 - Le Buisson Ardent, La Nouvelle JournéeChristophe tait tranquille; la paix tait en lui. Il prouvait, quelque fiert de l'avoir conquise. Et secrtement, il en tait contrit. Il s'tonnait du silence. Ses passions taient endormies; il croyait, de bonne foi, qu'elles...

Lightfoot, the Leaping Goat: His Many AdventuresFor Lightfoot and Blackie were two goats, and they lived with several others on the rocky[8] hillside at the edge of a big city. Lightfoot and Blackie, with four other goats, were owned by the widow, Mrs. Malony....

Política americanaNo faltar quien me pregunte si soy prncipe lejislador para disertar sobre poltica. Responder que no y aadir que cabalmente porque no soy ni lo uno ni lo otro me he decidido escribir sobre la materia. Si yo fuera prncipe lejislador no me...

The Journal of Jacob Fowler - Narrating an Adventure from Arkansas Through the IndianJacob Fowler is an unknown author whose work has never before been heralded beyond the private circles of his friends, relatives, and descendants. The editor of his Journal has therefore a...