Literature
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McClure's Magazine December, 1895McClure's Magazine December, 1895LIFE IN INDIANA.REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS.LINCOLN STARTS OUT IN LIFE FOR HIMSELF AT TWENTY-ONE.THE BUILDING OF THE FLATBOAT AND THE TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS.LINCOLN HIRES OUT AS A GROCERY CLERK IN NEW SALEM.HIS FIRST VOTE. Abraham Lincoln grew to manhood in Southern...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction The novels of Thomas Love Peacock still find admirers among cultured readers, but his extravagant satire and a certain bookish awkwardness will never appeal to the great novel-reading public. The son of a London glass...
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Behind the News: Voices from Goa's PressBehind the News: Voices from Goa's PressCopyleft, 2003. May be copied provided entire text is kept intact, and credit is given to all who have contributed to this work. While every attempt has been made to maintain accuracy, we would appreciate inaccuracies being pointed...
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PoetryPoetryAs the tale is told by Plato, in the tenth book of his Republic, one Er the son of Arminius, a Pamphylian, was slain in battle; and ten days afterwards, when they collected the bodies for burial, his body alone showed no taint of...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookAaron (St.), a British martyr of the City of Legions (Newport, in South Wales). He was torn limb from limb by order of Maximian'us Hercu'lius, general...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5JONATHAN SWIFT. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT Michael Drayton SOME CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE PAST Grace E Sellon LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT Cardinal Veuman LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID James Whitcomb Riley POLONIUS' ADVICE Shakespeare KING ARTHUR BALIN...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionAcknowledgment and thanks for permission to use the following selections are herewith tendered to G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "The Death of the Gods," by Dmitri Merejkowski; and to Doubleday, Page & Company, New York,...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — FictionThe story opens on a grey October afternoon in the Isle of Wight, in the 'sixties. Alma Lee, the coachman's handsome young daughter, is toiling up a steep hill overlooking Chalkburne, tired and laden with parcels...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 04 — Fiction EBERS, GEORG An Egyptian Princess EDGEWORTH, MARIE Belinda Castle Rackrent ELIOT, GEORGE Adam Bede Felix Holt Romola Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN Waterloo FEUILLET, OCTAVE Romance of a Poor Young Man FIELDING,...
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Play-Making: A Manual of CraftsmanshipPlay-Making: A Manual of CraftsmanshipThis book is, to all intents and purposes, entirely new. No considerable portion of it has already appeared, although here and there short passages and phrases from articles of bygone years are embedded--indistinguishably, I hope--in the text. I have tried,...
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The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 For some remarks on the character of this publication, the Editor begs to refer the Reader to the Preface to the third volume of these Remains. That volume and the present are expressly connected together...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — FictionI remember my first visit to Tartarin of Tarascon as clearly as if it had been yesterday, though it is now more than a dozen years ago. When you had passed into his back garden, you...
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The EpicThe Epic - An Essay As this essay is disposed to consider epic poetry as a species of literature, and not as a department of sociology or archaeology or ethnology, the reader will not find it anything material to the discussion which may be...
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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer The Art of LiteratureThe Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature The contents of this, as of the other volumes in the series, have been drawn from Schopenhauer's Parerga, and amongst the various subjects dealt with in that famous collection of essays, Literature holds an important...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 02 — FictionOn an evening of July, in the year 18--, at East D------, a beautiful little town in East Anglia, I first saw the light. My father, a Cornishman, after serving many years in the Line, at...
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Phrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for StudyPhrases for Public Speakers and Paragraphs for StudyThe experienced public speaker acquires through long practise hundreds of phrases which he uses over and over again. These are essential to readiness of speech, since they serve to hold his thought well together and enable him...
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Cap and GownCap and Gown - A Treasury of College VerseIn "Cap and Gown" you look in vain For epic or heroic strain. Not ours to scale the heights sublime, Which hardly masters dare to climb; We only sing of youth and joy, And love,the credo...
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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth GradeChildren's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth GradeThis book is intended to accomplish three distinct purposes: first, to arouse a greater interest in oral reading; second, to develop an expressive voicesadly lacking in the case of most Americans; and third, to...
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Practice Book, Leland Powers SchoolPractice Book, Leland Powers SchoolMy gratitude to publishers who have generously permitted the reprinting of copyrighted selections, I would here publicly express. To Little, Brown & Company I am indebted for the use of the extract called "Eloquence," which is taken from a discourse...
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Short Stories Old and NewShort Stories Old and NewEvery short story has three parts, which may be called Setting or Background, Plot or Plan, and Characters or Character. If you are going to write a short story, as I hope you are, you will find it necessary to...
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