English Literature
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The SocialistThe SocialistThere are barons who are greater noblemen than earls, viscounts who are welcomed in a society that some marquises can never hope to enterit is a question not of wealth or celebrity, but of family relationships and date of creation. When, however, a...
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"Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves"Old Scrooge": A Christmas Carol in Five Staves. - Dramatized from Charles Dickens' Celebrated Christmas Story.Scro. Work sir, work! and I'll warrant that you'll keep warm. If you persist, in this wanton waste of coals, you and I will have to part. (Bob retires...
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The Battle of Life: A Love StoryThe Battle of Life: A Love StoryOnce upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle[4] was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild...
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Dodo Wonders--Dodo Wonders--Dodo was so much interested in what she had herself been saying, that having just lit one cigarette, she lit another at it, and now contemplated the two with a dazed expression. She was talking to Edith Arbuthnot, who had just returned from...
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The Story of a Round-House, and Other PoemsThe Story of a Round-House, and Other PoemsShips Truth They closed her Eyes The Harp I saw the Ramparts That Blessed Sunlight Song The Ballad of Sir Bors Spanish Waters Cargoes Captain Stratton's Fancy An Old Song re-sung St. Mary's Bells London Town The...
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Tom Wallis: A Tale of the South SeasTom Wallis: A Tale of the South SeasNorthward from an Australian city, and hidden from seaward view by high wooded bluffs and green belts of dense wind-swept scrub, there lies one of the oldest and quaintest little seaport towns on the whole eastern sea-board,...
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The Life of Daniel De FoeThe Life of Daniel De FoeThe ensuing Life was written for amusement, during a period of convalescence in 1785; and published anonymously by Stockdale, before The History of the Union, in 1786. As the Author fears no reproach for such amusement, during such a...
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Dandy Dick: A Play in Three ActsDandy Dick: A Play in Three ActsDandy Dick was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatrea series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic...
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Sport Royal, and Other StoriesSport Royal, and Other StoriesHeidelberg seems rather a tourist-ridden, hackneyed sort of place to be the mother of adventures. Nevertheless, it is there that my story begins. I had been traveling on the Continent, and came to Heidelberg to pay my duty to the...
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Nurse ElisiaNurse ElisiaMr Ralph Elthorne, of Hightoft, in the county of Lincolnshire, threw down the knife with which he had given a savage chop at the side of an egg, as if to cut off the top at a blow, pushed away his plate so...
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This Man's WifeThis Man's WifeIf that hat had occupied its proper place it would have been perched upon a stake to scare the sparrows away from the young peas, but the wretched weather-beaten structure was upon the old mans head, matching well with his coat, as...
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The Tiger LilyThe Tiger LilyThe speaker raised his head from the white pillow of the massive, old-fashioned four-post bed, and set the ornamental bobs and tags of the heavy bullion fringe upon the great cornice quivering. He was a sharp-faced, cleanly shaven man, freshly scraped, and...
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The White VirginThe White VirginIt was a long, thin, white finger, one which had felt the throbbing of hundreds and thousands of pulses, and Doctor Praed, after viciously flicking at a fly which tried persistently to settle upon his ivory-white, shiny, bald head, hooked that finger...
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Sawn Off: A Tale of a Family TreeSawn Off: A Tale of a Family TreeHi! dont, Very. Let me breathe, cried Doctor Salado, removing a very pretty little hand from over his mouth, and kissing the owner, as pretty a little girl as ever stepped; though just then her pretty creamy...
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The Interpreter: A Tale of the WarThe Interpreter: A Tale of the WarNot one of my keys will fit it: the old desk has been laid aside for years, and is covered with dust and rust. We do not make such strong boxes nowadays, for brass hinges and secret drawers...
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MaterfamiliasMaterfamiliasMother herself had engaged her, and I believe had asked, when dying, that she would remain to take care of us; and I don't say that she was not a good woman. She had been nearly five years in the house, and we had...
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The Key to the Brontë WorksThe Key to the Brontë Works - The Key to Charlotte Brontë's 'Wuthering Heights,' 'Jane Eyre,' and her other works.[Pg 178] [Pg 179] The address is as a rule that from which the book was subscribed. A star is placed when the special leather-bound...
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A Will and No Will or, A Bone for the Lawyers. (1746) The New Play Criticiz'd, or the Plague of Envy. (1747)A Will and No Will; or, A Bone for the Lawyers. (1746) The New Play Criticiz'd, or the Plague of Envy. (1747) The manuscript copies of these two plays by Charles Macklin, A WILL AND NO WILL, OR A BONE FOR THE LAWYERS (1746)...
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The HypocriteThe HypocriteWORLD:"The anonymous author is evidently young and clever. He paints with a firm, bold hand. The characters are life-like, and in many cases drawn from the life. The book will be found interesting and entertaining." LONDON MORNING:"A remarkable book.... Clever the book undoubtedly...
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Christmas Roses and Other StoriesChristmas Roses and Other Stories HEY were coming up everywhere in their sheltered corner on the wall-border, between the laurustinus and the yew hedge. She had always loved to watch their manner of emerging from the wintry ground: neck first, arched and stubborn; heads...
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