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The Crimson Fairy BookThe Crimson Fairy Book Each Fairy Book demands a preface from the Editor, and these introductions are inevitably both monotonous and unavailing. A sense of literary honesty compels the Editor to keep repeating that he is the Editor, and not the author of the...
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New AtlantisNew Atlantis Bacon's literary executor, Dr. Rowley, published "The New Atlantis" in 1627, the year after the author's death. It seems to have been written about 1623, during that period of literary activity which followed Bacon's political fall. None of Bacon's writings gives in...
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Donal GrantDonal Grant Note from electronic text creator: I have compiled a word list with definitions of most of the Scottish words and phrases found in this work at the end of the book. This list does not belong to the original work, but is...
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Barchester TowersBarchester TowersPlease 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 each...
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Is Shakespeare Dead?Is Shakespeare Dead? - From My AutobiographyScattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found which deal with Claimantsclaimants historically notorious: Satan, Claimant; the Golden...
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Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish and Miscellaneous PiecesRomantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous PiecesThe ballads in this volume are translated from the Works of Oehlenslger, (a poet who is yet living, and who stands high in the estimation of his countrymen,) and from the Kimp Viser, a collection of...
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Lost FaceLost FaceIt was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased. He sat in the snow, arms tied behind...
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An Essay on Man Moral Essays and SatiresAn Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George...
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The PatagoniaThe PatagoniaThe houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club on the hill alone, from its semi-cylindrical front, projected a glow upon the dusky vagueness of the...
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The Diary of a Man of FiftyThe Diary of a Man of FiftyFlorence, April 5th, 1874.They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth...
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A Bundle of LettersA Bundle of LettersMy dear motherI have kept you posted as far as Tuesday week last, and, although my letter will not have reached you yet, I will begin another before my news accumulates too much. I am glad you show my letters round...
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Black Bartlemy's TreasureBlack Bartlemy's Treasure The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke....
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Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.DAnecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - During the Last Twenty Years of His LifeI have somewhere heard or read that the preface before a book, like the portico before a house, should be contrived so as to catch, but not detain, the...
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Introduction to the Compleat AnglerIntroduction to the Compleat AnglerTo write on Walton is, indeed, to hold a candle to the sun. The editor has been content to give a summary of the chief or rather the only known, events in Waltons long life, adding a notice of his...
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The Beggar's OperaThe Beggar's OperaBEGGAR, PLAYER. Beggar. If Poverty be a Title to Poetry, I am sure no-body can dispute mine. I own myself of the Company of Beggars; and I make one at their Weekly Festivals at St. Giless. I have a small Yearly Salary...
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Unterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenUnterhaltungen deutscher AusgewandertenPlease 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...
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La dame aux caméliasLa dame aux caméliasD'ailleurs, il y a Paris des tmoins de la plupart des faits que je recueille ici, et qui pourraient les confirmer, si mon tmoignage ne suffisait pas. Par une circonstance particulire, seul je pouvais les crire, car seul j'ai t le...
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Oldport DaysOldport Days Transcriber's Note: I have closed contractions in the text, e.g., "did n't" becoming "didn't" for example; I have also added the missing period after "caress" in line 11 of page 61, and have changed "ever" to "over" in line 16 of page...
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Okewood of the Secret ServiceOkewood of the Secret Service Mr. Arthur Mackwayte slipped noiselessly into the dining-room and took his place at the table. He always moved quietly, a look of gentle deprecation on his face as much as to say: Really, you know, I cant help being...
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The House of Pride, and Other Tales of HawaiiThe House of Pride, and Other Tales of HawaiiPercival Ford wondered why he had come. He did not dance. He did not care much for army people. Yet he knew them allgliding and revolving there on the broad lanai of the Seaside, the officers...
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