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Diary of a PilgrimageSaid a friend of mine to me some months ago: Well now, why dont you write a sensible book? I should like to see you make people think. Do you believe it can be done, then? I asked. Well, try, he...

Malvina of Brittany The Preface. I. The Story. II. How it came about. III. How cousin Christopher became mixed up with it. IV. How it was kept from Mrs. Arlington. V. How it was told to Mrs. Marigold. VI. And how it was finished...

Angling SketchesSeveral of the sketches in this volume have appeared in periodicals. The Bloody Doctor was in Macmillans Magazine, The Confessions of a Duffer, Loch Awe, and The Lady or the Salmon? were in the Fishing Gazette, but have been to some extent re-written....

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard Nostromo is the most anxiously meditated of the longer novels which belong to the period following upon the publication of the Typhoon volume of short stories. I dont mean to say that I became then conscious of any...

Tarzan the Terrible Silent as the shadows through which he moved, the great beast slunk through the midnight jungle, his yellow-green eyes round and staring, his sinewy tail undulating behind him, his head lowered and flattened, and every muscle vibrant to the thrill of...

The Bat "You've got to get him, boysget him or bust!" said a tired police chief, pounding a heavy fist on a table. The detectives he bellowed the words at looked at the floor. They had done their best and failed. Failure meant "resignation"...

The LibraryThe pages in this volume on illuminated and other MSS. (with the exception of some anecdotes about Bussy Rabutin and Julie de Rambouillet) have been contributed by the Rev. W. J. Loftie, who has also written on early printed books (pp. 9495). The...

Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists DHAMMAPADA Chapter I. The Twin-Verses Chapter II. On Earnestness Chapter III. Thought Chapter IV. Flowers Chapter V. The Fool Chapter VI. The Wise Man (Pandita) Chapter VII. The Venerable (Arhat)....

The 1998 CIA World FactbookAfghanistan Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua and Barbuda Arctic Ocean Argentina Armenia Aruba Ashmore and Cartier Islands Atlantic Ocean Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas, The Bahrain Baker Island Bangladesh Barbados Bassas da India Belarus Belgium Belize Benin...

A Miscellany of Men Rightly or wrongly, it is certain that a man both liberal and chivalric, can and very often does feel a dis-ease and distrust touching those political women we call Suffragettes. Like most other popular sentiments, it is generally wrongly stated...

The Lodger The room, especially when it be known that it was part of a house standing in a grimy, if not exactly sordid, London thoroughfare, was exceptionally clean and well-cared-for. A casual stranger, more particularly one of a Superior class to their own,...

The Pit-Prop Syndicate Seymour Merriman was tired; tired of the jolting saddle of his motor bicycle, of the cramped position of his arms, of the chug of the engine, and most of all, of the dreary, barren country through which he was riding. Early...

The ChildrenFellow Travellers with a Bird, I. Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II. Children in Midwinter That Pretty Person Out of Town Expression Under the Early Stars The Man with Two Heads Children in Burlesque Authorship Letters The Fields The Barren Shore The Boy...

Rudder Grange RUDDER GRANGE. CHAPTER I. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF DWELLING HOUSE. CHAPTER II. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF BOARDER. CHAPTER III. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF GIRL. CHAPTER IV. TREATING OF A NOVEL STYLE OF BURGLAR. CHAPTER V. POMONA...

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin [My fathers autobiographical recollections, given in the present chapter, were written for his children,and written without any thought that they would ever be published. To many this may seem an impossibility; but those who knew my father will understand...

The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection - Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings...

Mazelli, and Other Poems Under this head, I desire to say a few words upon three subjects, my friends, my book, and myself. My friends, though not legion in number, have been, in their efforts in my behalf, disinterested, sincere, and energetic. My book:...

We Two: A Novel CHAPTER I. Brian Falls in Love CHAPTER II. From Effect to Cause CHAPTER III. Life From Another Point of View CHAPTER IV. "Supposing it is true! CHAPTER V. Erica's Resolve CHAPTER VI. Paris CHAPTER VII. What the New Year Brought...

A Fair Penitent This story first appeared in Charles Dickens magazine, Household Words, volume 16, number 382, July 18, 1857. Published anonymously, as all contributions to the magazine were, it was attributed definitely to Wilkie Collins by Anne Lohrli in her analysis of the...

Piccadilly Jim The residence of Mr. Peter Pett, the well-known financier, on Riverside Drive is one of the leading eyesores of that breezy and expensive boulevard. As you pass by in your limousine, or while enjoying ten cents worth of fresh air on top...