Old Is Gold

The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2Mr. Bront afflicted with blindness, and relieved by a successful operation for cataractCharlotte Bront's first work of fiction, "The Professor"She commences "Jane Eyre"Circumstances attending its compositionHer ideas of a heroineHer attachment to homeHaworth in DecemberA letter of...

Dangerous Days Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random,...

At the Sign of the Cat and Racket Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this...

The Human DriftThe Human Drift Small-Boat Sailing Four Horses and a Sailor Nothing that Ever Came to Anything That Dead Men Rise up Never A Classic of the Sea A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser) The Birth Mark (Sketch) The history of civilisation is a...

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life PREPARERS NOTE: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illusions trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David. The action in Scenes From A Courtesans Life commences directly after...

The Girl with the Golden Eyes PREPARERS NOTE: The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The...

The God of His Fathers: Tales of the KlondykeThe God of His Fathers The Great Interrogation Which Make Men Remember Siwash The Man with the Gash Jan, the Unrepentant Grit of Women Where the Trail Forks A Daughter of the Aurora At the Rainbows...

Ferragus, Chief of the Dévorants Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one...

The Brick Moon, and Other StoriesTO read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible...

Little Novels THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself....

"I Say No" Outside the bedroom the night was black and still. The small rain fell too softly to be heard in the garden; not a leaf stirred in the airless calm; the watch-dog was asleep, the cats were indoors; far or near, under...

My Lady's Money OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same personTHE RT. HON....

The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story BEFORE THE STORY. THE STORY FIRST BOOK. Chapter I. Mrs. Presty Presents Herself. Chapter II. The Governess Enters. Chapter III. Mrs. Presty Changes Her Mind. Chapter IV. Randal Receives His Correspondence. Chapter V. Randal Writes to New York....

After Dark I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before. The pages entitled Leahs...

The Frozen Deep The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment isdancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of...

The Two Destinies I LOOKED at the house. It was an inn, of no great size, but of respectable appearance. If I was to be of any use to her that night, the time had come to speak of other subjects than the subject...

The Law and the Lady IN offering this book to you, I have no Preface to write. I have only to request that you will bear in mind certain established truths, which occasionally escape your memory when you are reading a work of fiction....

Miss or Mrs.? The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on landthe silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea. Not a breath came from the dead air. Not...

The Golden Fleece: A Romance The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature...

Essays in LittleOf the following essays, five are new, and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the Letter to a Young Journalist, the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on Homer, and The Last Fashionable Novel....