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Some Short Stories [by Henry James]We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been in Arcadia," we...

His Own People The glass-domed palm-room of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who...

The Iceberg Express It was the first time she had been trusted out alone since the family had moved to the seashore for the summer; for Mary Louise was a little girl, nothing about her was large, except her round gray eyes. There was...

A House to LetI had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical manvery clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which was...

Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee Engineers, a hero to his childThe family petsHome from the Mexican WarThree years in BaltimoreSuperintendent of the West Point Military AcademyLieutenant-Colonel of Second CavalrySupresses John Brown Raid at Harpers FerryCommands the Department of Taxes.............. 3 United...

Hans HuckebeinPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...

Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand: Ein SchauspielPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We...

NovellePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each hour...

West-östlicher DivanPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...

Droll Stories — Volume 2Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been...

The Story of My Heart: An Autobiography The story of my heart commences seventeen years ago. In the glow of youth there were times every now and then when I felt the necessity of a strong inspiration of soul-thought. My heart was dusty, parched...

The Choir InvisiblePlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...

The Flag-Raising "I DON' know as I cal'lated to be the makin' of any child," Miranda had said as she folded Aurelia's letter and laid it in the light-stand drawer. "I s'posed of course Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but...

Geschichte des Agathon. Teil 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Geschichte des Agathon. Teil 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million...

Hermann und Dorothea Hab ich den Markt und die Straen doch nie so einsam gesehen! Ist doch die Stadt wie gekehrt! wie ausgestorben! Nicht funfzig, Deucht mir, blieben zurck von allen unsern Bewohnern. Was die Neugier nicht tut! So rennt und luft nun ein...

Travels through France and Italy Many pens have been burnished this year of grace for the purpose of celebrating with befitting honour the second centenary of the birth of Henry Fielding; but it is more than doubtful if, when the right date occurs in...

In the Carquinez Woods The sun was going down on the Carquinez Woods. The few shafts of sunlight that had pierced their pillared gloom were lost in unfathomable depths, or splintered their ineffectual lances on the enormous trunks of the redwoods. For a time...

The Freelands One early April afternoon, in a Worcestershire field, the only field in that immediate landscape which was not down in grass, a man moved slowly athwart the furrows, sowinga big man of heavy build, swinging his hairy brown arm with the grace...

Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)John Bunyans Holy War was first published in 1682, six years before its illustrious authors death. Bunyan wrote this great book when he was still in all the fulness of his intellectual power and in all the ripeness of his spiritual...