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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaI. Germanicus, the father of Caius Caesar, and son of Drusus and the younger Antonia, was, after his adoption by Tiberius, his uncle, preferred to the quaestorship [377] five years before he had attained the legal...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusI. The patrician family of the Claudii (for there was a plebeian family of the same name, no way inferior to the other either in power or dignity) came originally from Regilli, a town of the...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusI. That the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae [106], is rendered evident by many circumstances. For in the most frequented part of the town, there was, not long since, a...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarC. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental...
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Simple Italian CookerySimple Italian CookeryBoil the beef, bones, and vegetables in two quarts of water over a slow fireadding pepper and salt. Skim occasionally, and after two hours add two tablespoons of sherry; then strain through fine soup-strainer or cheese-cloth. This is the basis of all...
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That Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle WestThat Printer of Udell's: A Story of the Middle West "And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of these my brethren, even these least, ye did it unto me." "O...
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Die Jungfrau von OrleansDie Jungfrau von OrleansWe are releasing two versions of this Etext, one in 7-bit format, known as Plain Vanilla ASCII, which can be sent via plain email and one in 8-bit format, which includes higher order characters which requires a binary transfer, or sent...
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Bat WingBat Wing Toward the hour of six on a hot summers evening Mr. Paul Harley was seated in his private office in Chancery Lane reading through a number of letters which Innes, his secretary, had placed before him for signature. Only one more remained...
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Two Years in the French West IndiesTwo Years in the French West Indies During a trip to the Lesser Antilles in the summer of 1887, the writer of the following pages, landing at Martinique, fell under the influence of that singular spell which the island has always exercised upon strangers,...
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CornelliCornelliMany writers have suffered injustice in being known as the author of but one book. Robinson Crusoe was not Defoe's only masterpiece, nor did Bunyan confine his best powers to Pilgrim's Progress. Not one person in ten of those who read Lorna Doone is...
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The NetThe NetThe train from Palermo was late. Already long, shadowy fingers were reaching down the valleys across which the railroad track meandered. Far to the left, out of an opalescent sea, rose the fairy-like Lipari Islands, and in the farthest distance Stromboli lifted its...
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Victory: An Island TaleVictory: An Island Tale The last word of this novel was written on 29 May 1914. And that last word was the single word of the title. Those were the times of peace. Now that the moment of publication approaches I have been considering...
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ThaisThaïsEn ce temps-l le dsert, tait peupl d'anachortes. Sur les deux rives du Nil, d'innombrables cabanes, bties de branchages et d'argile par la main des solitaires, taient semes quelque distance les unes des autres, de faon que ceux qui les habitaient pouvaient vivre isols...
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Self-Raised Or, From the DepthsSelf-Raised; Or, From the DepthsSomething I know. Oft, shall it come about When every heart is full of hope for man, The horizon straight is darkened, and a doubt Clouds all. The work the youth so well began Wastes down, and by some deed...
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Quaint Gleanings from Ancient PoetryQuaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry - A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth CenturiesThe following curious collection I have gathered together during several years' reading in out-of-the-way corners. Manuscripts, in public and private libraries; old books picked up on...
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Princess MaritzaPrincess MaritzaA breezy morning after a night of rain. Fleecy clouds, some in massive folds and fantastic shape, some in small half-transparent wisps like sunlit ghosts, were driven rapidly across the blue. Hurrying shadows flecked the swelling bosom of the downs, and where the...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other TalesThe Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales - With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers The opportunity here offered [Footnote: By the appearance in England several years ago of an edition of the authors writings as then collected.] to give...
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The Wonder-Working MagicianThe Wonder-Working Magician Two of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated of all Calderon's writings. The first, "La Vida es Sueno", has been translated into many languages and performed with success on almost every stage in Europe but that of...
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The Purgatory of St. PatrickThe Purgatory of St. PatrickTwo of the dramas contained in this volume are the most celebrated of all Calderon's writings. The first, "La Vida es Sueno", has been translated into many languages and performed with success on almost every stage in Europe but that...
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The Story of the OdysseyThe Story of the OdysseyThree thousand years ago the world was still young. The western continent was a huge wilderness, and the greater part of Europe was inhabited by savage and wandering tribes. Only a few nations at the eastern end of the Mediterranean...
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