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Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway In this book I have had old stories written down, as I have heard them told by intelligent people, concerning chiefs who have have held dominion in the northern countries, and who spoke the Danish...

The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and CounsellorThere was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle; he was the son of Sigvat the Red, and he dwelt at the "Vale" in the Rangrivervales. He was a mighty chief, and...

Rivers to the SeaWhy am I crying after love With youth, a singing voice and eyes To take earth's wonder with surprise? Why have I put off my pride, Why am I unsatisfied, I for whom the pensive night Binds her cloudy hair with...

The Sisters' Tragedy, with Other Poems, Lyrical and DramaticIT happened once, in that brave land that lies For half the twelvemonth wrapt in sombre skies, Two sisters loved one man. He being dead, Grief loosed the lips of her he had not wed, And...

Twilight Stories One hundred years' and one ago, in Boston, at ten of the clock one April night, a church steeple had been climbed and a lantern hung out. At ten, the same night, in mid-river of the Charles, oarsmen two, with passenger silent...

A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I Of the French writers of romance of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made a reputation as quickly as did Guy de Maupassant. Not one has preserved that reputation with...

The Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases capitalized. Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Some errors have been corrected. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] Where Is the...

Flame and Shadow[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases are marked by tildes (~). Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Also, some obvious errors may have been...

Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published...

Catriona It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Companys office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted...

Master Humphrey's ClockAn author, says Fielding, in his introduction to Tom Jones, ought to consider himself, not as the gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, to which all persons are welcome for their...

Danny's Own Story HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it. I might of had one jest as well as not if Old Hank Walters hadn't been so...

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a FriendSIR THOMAS BROWNE (whose works occupy so prominent a position in the literary history of the seventeenth century) is an author who is now little known and less read. This comparative oblivion to which he has...

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryHAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these...

Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North - Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even ThereIN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated,...

The Woman in White This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of...

A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories*The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin The Tailor of Gloucester *The Tale of Benjamin Bunny *The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle *The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse *The Tale of Jemima...

Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes; a Satire The name of the father of Ginx's Baby was Ginx. By a not unexceptional coincidence, its mother was Mrs. Ginx. The gender of Ginx's Baby was masculine. On the day when our hero was born,...

The Pickwick Papers THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB CHAPTER I. THE PICKWICKIANS CHAPTER II. THE FIRST DAYS JOURNEY, AND THE FIRST EVENINGS ADVENTURES; WITH THEIR CONSEQUENCES CHAPTER III. A NEW ACQUAINTANCETHE STROLLERS TALE; A DISAGREEABLE INTERRUPTION, AND AN UNPLEASANT ENCOUNTER CHAPTER IV....

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