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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the 17th, directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville, where I...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to...
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William the ConquerorWilliam the ConquerorThe history of England, like the land and its people, has been specially insular, and yet no land has undergone deeper influences from without. No land has owed more than England to the personal action of men not of native birth. Britain...
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The RavenThe Raven Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door....
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The Masque of the Red DeathThe Masque of the Red Death The Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its sealthe redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness,...
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The Cask of AmontilladoThe Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to...
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First Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan PoeFirst Project Gutenberg Collection of Edgar Allan Poe THE Red Death had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its sealthe redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and...
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Myths and Myth-MakersMyths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology IN publishing this somewhat rambling and unsystematic series of papers, in which I have endeavoured to touch briefly upon a great many of the most important points in the study of mythology,...
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Grass of ParnassusGrass of ParnassusThe years will pass, and hearts will range, You conquer Time, and Care, and Change. Though Time doth still delight to shed The dust on many a younger head; Though Care, oft coming, hath the guile From younger lips to steal the...
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The World Set FreeThe World Set Free The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by...
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The Mirror of the SeaThe Mirror of the SeaA Departure is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term Landfall is more easily understood; you fall in with the land, and it is a matter of a quick eye and of a clear atmosphere. The...
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Poems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolPoems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolThis collection of Wildes Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, The Sphinx, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Ravenna. Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations...
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Martin EdenMartin Eden Let me live out my years in heat of blood! Let me lie drunken with the dreamers wine! Let me not see this soul-house built of mud Go toppling to the dust a vacant shrine! The one opened the door with a...
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'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales'Twixt Land & Sea: TalesEver since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic...
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A Collection of BalladsA Collection of BalladsWhen the learned first gave serious attention to popular ballads, from the time of Percy to that of Scott, they laboured under certain disabilities. The Comparative Method was scarcely understood, and was little practised. Editors were content to study the ballads...
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Within the Tides: TalesWithin the Tides: TalesIn the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and...
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Step by Step Or, Tidy's Way to FreedomStep by Step; Or, Tidy's Way to Freedom MY DEAR CHILDREN,All of you who read this little book have doubtless heard more or less of slavery. You know it is the system by which a portion of our people hold their fellow-creatures as property,...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhSartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times...
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The Dark Lady of the SonnetsThe Dark Lady of the Sonnets I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady...
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England WomanVanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman I have written this story of my army life at the urgent and ceaseless request of my children. For whenever I allude to those early days, and tell to them the tales...
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