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The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda In offering to the reader this translation of the most complete and dramatic form of the great Epic of the North, we lay no claim to special critical insight, nor do...

The Nibelungenlied This work has been undertaken in the belief that a literal translation of as famous an epic as the "Nibelungenlied" would be acceptable to the general reading public whose interest in the story of Siegfried has been stimulated by Wagner's operas and...

The Danish History, Books I-IX Forasmuch as all other nations are wont to vaunt the glory of their achievements, and reap joy from the remembrance of their forefathers: Absalon, Chief Pontiff of the Danes, whose zeal ever burned high for the glorification of our...

From London to Land's End - and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"At the end of this book there are a couple of letters from a volume of the Travels in England which were not by Defoe, although resembling Defoes...

The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through WalesSince those things, which are known to have been done through a laudable devotion, are not unworthily extolled with due praises; and since the mind, when relaxed, loses its energy, and the torpor of sloth enervates the understanding,...

A Journey from This World to the Next Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion...

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon In the beginning of August, 1753, when I had taken the duke of Portland's medicine, as it is called, near a year, the effects of which had been the carrying off the symptoms of a lingering imperfect...

Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim - Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda CHAPTER I. THE QUEENS GOOD-BY CHAPTER II. A STATION WITHOUT A CAB CHAPTER III. AGAIN TO ZENDA CHAPTER IV. AN EDDY ON THE MOAT CHAPTER V. AN...

In the Cage It had occurred to her early that in her positionthat of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpieshe should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made...

Notes on Life & LettersAUTOCRACY AND WAR1905 THE CRIME OF PARTITION1919 A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM1916 POLAND REVISITED1915 FIRST NEWS1918 WELL DONE1918 TRADITION1918 CONFIDENCE1919 FLIGHT1917 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC1912 CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF...

Typhoon [PG NOTE: The other stories usually included in this volume (Amy Foster, Falk: A Reminiscence, and To-morrow) being already available in the PG catalog, are not entered them here.] The main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing...

Selected Poems of Oscar WildeIt is thought that a selection from Oscar Wildes early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume. The poems were first...

Latter-Day Pamphlets The Present Time, youngest-born of Eternity, child and heir of all the Past Times with their good and evil, and parent of all the Future, is ever a "New Era" to the thinking man; and comes with new questions and significance, however...

Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things On the South Shore of Long Island, all things incline to a natural somnolence. There are no ambitious mountains, no braggart cliffs, no hasty torrents, no hustling waterfalls in that land, The salt meadows sleep in the...

The Research Magnificent 1 The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed...

A Lover's Complaint B) This license is subject to the conditions that you honor the refund and replacement provisions of this "small print!" statement; and that you distribute exact copies of this etext, including this Small Print statement. Such copies can be compressed or...

King Henry the Eighth B) This license is subject to the conditions that you honor the refund and replacement provisions of this "small print!" statement; and that you distribute exact copies of this etext, including this Small Print statement. Such copies can be compressed...

The Tempest B) This license is subject to the conditions that you honor the refund and replacement provisions of this "small print!" statement; and that you distribute exact copies of this etext, including this Small Print statement. Such copies can be compressed or any...

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Cymbeline B) This license is subject to the conditions that you honor the refund and replacement provisions of this "small print!" statement; and that you distribute exact copies of this etext, including this Small Print statement. Such copies can be compressed or any proprietary...