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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Introduction, Worship, And Persecution Of Images.Revolt Of Italy And Rome.Temporal Dominion Of The Popes.Conquest Of Italy By The Franks.Establishment Of Images.Character And Coronation Of Charlemagne.Restoration And Decay Of The Roman Empire...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Zeno And Anastasius, Emperors Of The East.Birth, Education, And First Exploits Of Theodoric The Ostrogoth.His Invasion And Conquest Of Italy.The Gothic Kingdom Of Italy.State Of The West.Military And Civil Government.The Senator...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Invasion Of Italy By Alaric.Manners Of The Roman Senate And People.Rome Is Thrice Besieged, And At Length Pillaged, By The Goths.Death Of Alaric.The Goths Evacuate Italy.Fall Of Constantine.Gaul And Spain Are...

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 The Government And Death Of Jovian.Election Of Valentinian, Who Associates His Brother Valens, And Makes The Final Division Of The Eastern And Western Empires. Revolt Of Procopius.Civil And Ecclesiastical Administration.Germany.Britain.Africa.The East....

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 I now discharge my promise, and complete my design, of writing the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, both in the West and the East. The whole...

Oliver Twist Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit,...

Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Chapters 1 and 2Just why Peter Samson was wandering around in Building 26 in the middle of the night is a matter that he would find difficult to explain. Some things are not spoken. If you were like...

Emile Zola In these times of electrical movement, the sort of construction in the moral world for which ages were once needed, takes place almost simultaneously with the event to be adjusted in history, and as true a perspective forms itself as any in...

The Star-Spangled BannerSIR: Having been called upon by the Governor-General of the Canadas to aid him in carrying into effect measures of retaliation against the inhabitants of United States for the wanton destruction committed by their army in Upper Canada, it has become imperiously...

A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may...

Men of Invention and Industry "Men there have been, ignorant of letters; without art, without eloquence; who yet had the wisdom to devise and the courage to perform that which they lacked language to explain. Such men have worked the deliverance of nations and...

The Man of Letters as a Man of Business I think that every man ought to work for his living, without exception, and that when he has once avouched his willingness to work, society should provide him with work and warrant him a living....

Henry James, Jr. The events of Mr. James's lifeas we agree to understand eventsmay be told in a very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute, if he...

James Otis, the Pre-RevolutionistPlease 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...

The Birds' Christmas Carol They had intended to name the baby Lucy, if it were a girl; but they hadn't expected her on Christmas morning, and a real Christmas baby was not to be lightly namedthe whole family agreed in that. They were consulting...

Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern RiverThe well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked...

The Plays of W. E. Henley and R. L. StevensonThe Scene is laid in Edinburgh. The Time is towards the close of the Eighteenth Century. The Action, some fifty hours long, begins at eight p.m. on Saturday and ends before midnight on Monday. The...

Tono-Bungay Most people in this world seem to live in character; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of...

Chita: A Memory of Last Island Travelling south from New Orleans to the Islands, you pass through a strange land into a strange sea, by various winding waterways. You can journey to the Gulf by lugger if you please; but the trip may be...

The Cruise of the Jasper B. On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street...