Old Is Gold
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A Woman of ThirtyA Woman of Thirty It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead....
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Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and of Experience Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past, and future, sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees; Calling the lapsd soul, And weeping in the evening dew; That might control...
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The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondThe History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondWhen I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond-pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket,...
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The School for ScandalThe School for Scandal The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that a closing bracket "]" has been added to the stage directions. For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at...
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Droll Stories — Volume 1Droll Stories — Volume 1 When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher's name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would...
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The Village RectorThe Village Rector In the lower town of Limoges, at the corner of the rue de la Vieille-Poste and the rue de la Cite might have been seen, a generation ago, one of those shops which were scarcely changed from the period of the...
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Albert SavarusAlbert Savarus One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. Monsieur de Watteville, a descendant...
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ArmadaleArmadale In acknowledgment of the services which he has rendered to the cause of literature by his Life of Goldsmith; and in affectionate remembrance of a friendship which is associated with some of the happiest years of my life. Readers in generalon whose friendly...
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Royalty Restored Or, London Under Charles IIRoyalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II No social history of the court of Charles II. has heretofore been written. The Grammont Memoirs, devoid of date and detail, and addressed "to those who read only for amusement," present but brief imperfect sketches of the...
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The Deputy of ArcisThe Deputy of Arcis Once in possession of the information furnished by the landlady of the Mulet and by the sub-prefect Antonin Goulard, Monsieur de Trailles had soon arranged his plan of electoral operations, and this plan evinces itself so readily that the reader...
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Tartarin of TarasconTartarin of Tarascon MY first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon has remained a never-to-be-forgotten date in my life; although quite ten or a dozen years ago, I remember it better than yesterday. At that time the intrepid Tartarin lived in the third house on...
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Cousin PonsCousin Pons Towards three oclock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italiens with his head bent...
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LucileLucile I dedicate to you a work, which is submitted to the public with a diffidence and hesitation proportioned to the novelty of the effort it represents. For in this poem I have abandoned those forms of verse with which I had most familiarized...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a quarter of...
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Ivanoff: A PlayIvanoff: A Play The garden of IVANOFF'S country place. On the left is a terrace and the facade of the house. One window is open. Below the terrace is a broad semicircular lawn, from which paths lead to right and left into a garden....
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Cousin BettyCousin Betty One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, then lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de lUniversite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain...
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Miss Civilization: A Comedy in One ActMiss Civilization: A Comedy in One Act "Miss Civilization" is founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. All professional rights in this play belong to Richard Harding Davis. Amateurs who desire to produce "Miss Civilization" may do so, providing they apply...
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Heart of the WestHeart of the West Baldy Woods reached for the bottle, and got it. Whenever Baldy went for anything he usuallybut this is not Baldys story. He poured out a third drink that was larger by a finger than the first and second. Baldy was...
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Eugenie GrandetEugenie Grandet There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the...
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The Story of Waitstill BaxterThe Story of Waitstill Baxter FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire's granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes Now it leaves the mountains and flows through green Fryeburg's woods and farms. In the...
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