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The Life of the WeevilI have gathered into this volume the essays on Weevils contained in the Souvenirs entomologiques, lest I should swell unduly the number of volumes devoted to Beetles, of which there will be three in all, or four if we include...

Battle for the StarsYou made your decision. You threw a ship, a hundred men, your officers, your friends, your own Commander's badge you threw them all down on the gamble. But when the stakes were stars.... Kirk's palms itched. If they were running into...

Szerelem (2. kötet) - Móricz Zsigmond egyfelvonásosai(A kertnek egy igen kicsiny rszlete. Csupn annyi, amennyit a szzados nagy hrsfa betakar. A nagy fa gai elnyulnak szlesen s alatta egy kerti asztal, hrom kerti szk s egy lca van. Magas bokrok kertik a kisded trt....

Szerelem (1. kötet) - Móricz Zsigmond egyfelvonásosai(Mind a ketten paraszt lakodalmi ruhban vannak. A Mari fejn olcs menyasszonyi ftyol, csinlt mirtussal. Fehr ruhban van, amelyen -10- nagy srfoltok ltszanak. Ktsgbeesve nzi, mi trtnt a ruhjval, simtgatja magt.) Mikor egy koront fizettem minden mterrt! A...

The Autobiography of Upton SinclairAll through my seventy-one years of writing lifeI started at thirteenI have had from my readers suggestions that I should tell my own story. When I was halfway through those writing years I accepted the suggestion and wrote a book...

Les fleurs animées - Tome 2Au carrefour dune fort, lendroit do partent quatre routes diffrentes, plusieurs Fleurs se rencontrrent, parmi lesquelles on remarquait le Pois de Senteur, le Cactus, la Fleur de Pcher, le Dahlia, la Sensitive, la Fuchsie, la Pervenche. Il fut rsolu...

Coasting BohemiaMany of the papers which give to the present volume its title first appeared in the columns of the Daily Telegraph, and are here reprinted by the courteous permission of the proprietors of that journal. A portion of the essay on Burne-Jones was...

Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre It is appropriate, in a way, that I should give you this book when so much of it was written under your roof. It is a romance, and this has not been, during the...

Mazaroffin murhajuttuI. Herra Mazaroff. II. Lehtokurpan majatalo. III. Kadoksissa. IV. Nuoruuden vapaamuurariutta. V. Ainoa uskottu. VI. Herra Crole Bedford Rowin varrelta. VII. Muistolevy. VIII. Majatalon isnnn pyssy. IX. Kapkaupungin postileima. X. Yorkilainen asianajaja. XI. Poliisien otaksuma. XII. Salakirjoituksinen kirje. XIII. Timanttimaailma. XIV. Bond-kadun jalokivikauppias....

Gedigte(In 1837 is te Petrossa n skat ontdek, bestaande uit gou bekers, met edelgesteente beset. Die bekers moet uit verskillende lande afkomstig wees, blijkens die opskrifte. Die skat dateer uit die Europese volksverhuising, en bestaat uit die roof van Europa, die tribuut, wat een...

Victor Hugo à vingt ans: Glanes romantiquesElles ont trouv place par extraits dans le tome premier de la Correspondance de Victor Hugo[1] et ont fourni M. Louis Belton, avocat Blois, matire une fort attachante tude: Victor Hugo et son Pre, le gnral Hugo Blois[2]. Publie...

Stepping WestwardThe wayside hedgerow, gay with its autumn tints, stretched its undulating length beside the rather stony lane that wound upwards from the high road, and lost itself amid a multiplicity of sheep-tracks on the down. It was one of those mild days that...

Tied Up for TombstoneLodestone wiggles his ears, kicks at a hoss-fly, narrowly missing my head, and looks with sad eyes down at the city of Piperock. Then he goes to sleep. Which shows that a burro aint got no finer feelings. We been away...

Modern Essays and Stories - A book to awaken appreciation of modern prose, and to develop ability and originality in writingThe plowman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe.... Why? Simply because they are happy; because they are...

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 375, March 5, 1887lsewhere in the pages of The Girls Own Paper a writer has explained the laws of form governing and underlying what we call classical music. To those who love art, in whatever guise it...

"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": The Illuminating Diary of a Professional LadyA gentleman friend and I were dining at the Ritz last evening and he said that if I took a pencil and a paper and put down all of my thoughts it would make a...

The Pilgrims' First ChristmasIT was a bleak December day in the year 1620. All day long, the Mayflower struggled along the coast amidst the rain and snow, her rudder broken, her masts split in three pieces, and heavy seas dashing over her bow. The...

Le paillasson: Mœurs de provinceIl a t tir part de cet ouvrage 10 exemplaires sur Japon des Manufactures Impriales, numrots de 1 10, 50 exemplaires sur Hollande Van Gelder Zonen, numrots de 11 60 et 10 exemplaires de Collaborateurs, Hors-Commerce, sur divers papiers, numrots...

A szellemi erők gyüjtése és pazarlásaA takarkossg elve a termszetben. Szervezetnk energija. Lelknk vltozsai. Kpzetvilgunkrl. A lelki tnemnyek localisatija. Az agysejt tulajdonsgai. Kpzeteink klnflesge. Kpzeteink, fogalmaink klnbz agysejtekben vannak elhelyezve. A feleds menete. A tanulnivgys agyszerkezeti szksglet, mely kielgtsre vr. A talentumok eredete s...

Forever We Die!Darkness returned to the narrow, coffin-shaped cell. Rhodes reached for the bowl of gruel. It was tepid, not hot. The cell was very cold. In the square of light admitted briefly when the grate had been opened, Rhodes had seen the big,...