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The Rise of David LevinskyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Ramona IT was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but sheep-shearing was late at the Senora Moreno's. The Fates had seemed to combine to put it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Senora's eldest son, and since his...

The Commonwealth of Oceana JAMES HARRINGTON, eldest son of Sir Sapcotes Harrington of Exton, in Rutlandshire, was born in the reign of James I, in January, 1611, five years before the death of Shakespeare. He was two or three years younger than John Milton....

The Koran (Al-Qur'an)Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...

Eben Holden: A Tale of the North Country Early in the last century the hardy wood-choppers began to come west, out of Vermont. They founded their homes in the Adirondack wildernesses and cleared their rough acres with the axe and the charcoal pit. After...

The Queen of the Pirate Isle I first knew her as the Queen of the Pirate Isle. To the best of my recollection she had no reasonable right to that title. She was only nine years old, inclined to plumpness and good humor, deprecated...

The Wolves and the Lamb Scene.MILLIKEN'S villa at Richmond; two drawing-rooms opening into one another. The late MRS. MILLIKEN'S portrait over the mantel-piece; bookcases, writing-tables, piano, newspapers, a handsomely furnished saloon. The back-room opens, with very large windows, on the lawn and pleasure-ground; gate,...

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush I was born in the year one, of the present or Christian hera, and am, in consquints, seven-and-thirty years old. My mamma called me Charles James Harrington Fitzroy Yellowplush, in compliment to several noble families, and to...

Bob, Son of Battle PART I. THE COMING OF THE TAILLESS TYKE Chapter I. THE GRAY DOG Chapter II. A SON OF HAGAR Chapter III. RED WULL Chapter IV. FIRST BLOOD PART II. THE LITTLE MAN Chapter V. A MAN'S SON Chapter VI. A...

Found at Blazing Star The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers...

Flip: A California Romance Just where the track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the...

My Ten Years' ImprisonmentHave I penned these memorials, let me ask myself, from any paltry vanity, or desire to talk about that self? I hope this is not the case, and forasmuch as one may be able to judge in ones own cause, I...

Essays and TalesThe sixty-fourth volume of this Library contains those papers from the Tatler which were especially associated with the imagined character of Isaac Bickerstaff, who was the central figure in that series; and in the twenty-ninth volume there is a similar collection of...

Христо Ботев, Стихотворения 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 reported to you within 90 days of receipt of the...

The Motor Girls on a TourSince the enormous success or our "Motor Boys Series," by Clarence Young, we have been asked to get out a similar series for girls. No one is better equipped to furnish these tales than Mrs. Penrose, who, besides being...

Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys LITTLE MEN CHAPTER I. NAT CHAPTER II. THE BOYS CHAPTER III. SUNDAY CHAPTER IV. STEPPING-STONES CHAPTER V. PATTYPANS CHAPTER VI. A FIRE BRAND CHAPTER VII. NAUGHTY NAN CHAPTER VIII. PRANKS AND PLAYS CHAPTER IX. DAISY'S BALL...

An Old-Fashioned Girl AS a preface is the only place where an author can with propriety explain a purpose or apologize for shortcomings, I venture to avail myself of the privilege to make a statement for the benefit of my readers. As the first...

Jack and Jill JACK AND JILL Chapter I. The Catastrophe Chapter II. Two Penitents Chapter III. Ward No. 1 Chapter IV. Ward No. 2. Chapter V. Secrets Chapter VI. Surprises Chapter VII. Jill's Mission Chapter VIII. Merry and Molly Chapter IX. The Debating Club...

The Elusive Pimpernel Chapter I: Paris: 1793 Chapter II: A Retrospect Chapter III: Ex-Ambassador Chauvelin Chapter IV: The Richmond Gala Chapter V: Sir Percy and His Lady Chapter VI: For the Poor of Paris Chapter VII: Premonition Chapter VIII: The Invitation Chapter IX: Demoiselle...

Colonel Starbottle's Client It may be remembered that it was the habit of that gallant war-horse of the Calaveras democracy, Colonel Starbottle, at the close of a political campaign, to return to his original profession of the Law. Perhaps it could not be called...