Classic eBooks

The Story of the Amulet There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a chalkpit. One day they had the good fortune to find in the sandpit a strange creature. Its eyes...

The Phoenix and the Carpet It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breastRoberts, I fancyas to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawkes celebration. They were jolly cheap,...

The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in Prose and VerseThere is need to ask indulgence for this little book, because at first sight it seems to possess no other unity than that of type and cover. The root of its unity lies deeper, deeper...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go, said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning. I was not surprised. Indeed, my only wonder was that he had not already been mixed up...

The Theory of the Leisure Class The institution of a leisure class is found in its best development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such communities the distinction between classes is very...

Robin Hood CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI...

Four Arthurian Romances Chretien De Troyes has had the peculiar fortune of becoming the best known of the old French poets to students of mediaeval literature, and of remaining practically unknown to any one else. The acquaintance of students with the work of Chretien...

The Argonautica Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times...

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mothers side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the...

Latin Vulgate, Daniel: Prophetia DanielisThis is a complete electronic ASCII text of the Book of Daniel from the Latin Clementine Vulgate, sections translated from the Greek Septuagint included, with section headers, footnotes, and appendicies. notes concerning this file: I have transcribed from this source...

Latin Vulgate, Esther: Liber EstherI have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost...

Latin Vulgate, Esther: Liber EstherI have transcribed from this source as accurately as possible for this e-text, with the following changes: 1) I formatted each verse into a separate line and added the chapter number to each verse number. In doing this I lost...

Latin Vulgate, Bible Book Titles and NamesI have assembled four lists of the designations used for the Bible books from the above source: Full Tiles, Long Names, Short Names, & Abbreviations. The only changes I made were typing all names in "First Caps" rather...

Speeches: Literary and SocialCharles Dickens was born at Landport, Portsmouth, on February 7, 1812. At that time his father, Mr. John Dickens, held an office in the Navy Pay Department, the duties of which obliged him to reside alternately at the principal naval stations...

The Life of St. Declan of Ardmore Five miles or less to the east of Youghal Harbour, on the southern Irish coast, a short, rocky and rather elevated promontory juts, with a south-easterly trend, into the ocean [about 51 deg. 57 min. N /...

The Tarn of EternityPaths meander through the drear landscape. In earlier time lovingly attended, now lie they under gray dust and blowing brown leaves. All paths, in good time, led to the garden gate, its posterns now long whitened by blowing wind and sand....

Dombey and SonI make so bold as to believe that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing the characters of men, is a rare one. I have not even found, within my experience, that the faculty (or the habit) of correctly observing so...

Edison: His Life and Inventions THE reader who has followed the foregoing narrative may feel that inasmuch as it is intended to be an historical document, an appropriate addendum thereto would be a digest of all the inventions of Edison. The desirability of such...

The History of the Telephone Thirty-five short years, and presto! the newborn art of telephony is fullgrown. Three million telephones are now scattered abroad in foreign countries, and seven millions are massed here, in the land of its birth. So entirely has the telephone...

The Aeroplane Speaks The reasons impelling me to write this book, the maiden effort of my pen, are, firstly, a strong desire to help the ordinary man to understand the Aeroplane and the joys and troubles of its Pilot; and, secondly, to produce something...