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A Study in Scarlet In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. Having completed my studies there, I was duly...

The Forged Coupon, and Other Stories IN an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the divine right of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal...

My Ántonia Last summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle BurdenJim Burden, as we still call him in the West. He...

Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter CLOTELLE CHAPTER I. THE SOUTHERN SOCIAL CIRCLE CHAPTER II. THE NEGRO SALE CHAPTER III. THE SLAVE-SPECULATOR CHAPTER IV. THE BOAT-RACE CHAPTER V. THE YOUNG MOTHER CHAPTER VI. THE SLAVE-MARKET....

Stories from the Old AtticThe Second Greatest Commandment A Good Horse and a Better It's Nut Valuable Stewardship The Man Who Believed in Miracles A Fish Story Man Love Indecision The Limit How Sir Reginald Helped the King How the Noble Percival Won the...

Dear Enemy Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me...

Sexti Properti Elegiarvm: Liber Primvs CYNTHIA prima suis miserum me cepit ocellis, contactum nullis ante cupidinibus. tum mihi constantis deiecit lumina fastus et caput impositis pressit Amor pedibus, donec me docuit castas odisse puellas improbus, et nullo uiuere consilio. et mihi iam toto furor...

The Jungle Book It was seven oclock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his days rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling...

William Gibson InterviewedSTANDARD DISCLAIMER: This document can be freely copied under the following conditions: it must circulate in its entire form (including this disclaimer); it is meant for personal and non-commercial usage. This entire document or parts of it are not to be sold...

Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair Of old there was a land which was so much a woodland, that a minstrel thereof said it that a squirrel might go from end to end, and all about, from tree to tree, and never touch the...

Sister Carrie: A Novel When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for Chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, and a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap...

The Georgics What makes the cornfield smile; beneath what star Maecenas, it is meet to turn the sod Or marry elm with vine; how tend the steer; What pains for cattle-keeping, or what proof Of patient trial serves for thrifty bees;- Such are my...

Georgicon Quid faciat laetas segetes, quo sidere terram vertere, Maecenas, ulmisque adiungere vitis conveniat, quae cura boum, qui cultus habendo sit pecori, apibus quanta experientia parcis, hinc canere incipiam. Vos, o clarissima mundi lumina, labentem caelo quae ducitis annum, Liber et alma Ceres, vestro...

The Bucolics and Eclogues MELIBOEUS You, Tityrus, 'neath a broad beech-canopy Reclining, on the slender oat rehearse Your silvan ditties: I from my sweet fields, And home's familiar bounds, even now depart. Exiled from home am I; while, Tityrus, you Sit careless in the...

The Bucolics and Eclogues T. O Meliboee, deus nobis haec otia fecit: namque erit ille mihi semper deus; illius aram saepe tener nostris ab ovilibus imbuet agnus. Ille meas errare boves, ut cernis, et ipsum ludere, quae vellem, calamo permisit agresti M. Non equidem...

The Aeneid The Trojans, after a seven years voyage, set sail for Italy, but are overtaken by a dreadful storm, which Aeolus raises at the request of Juno. The tempest sinks one, and scatters the rest. Neptune drives off the winds, and calms the...

Aeneidos ARMA virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam, fato profugus, Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum saevae memorem Iunonis ob iram; multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem, inferretque deos Latio, genus unde Latinum, Albanique...

Cicero's Orations L. Sergius Catilina, homo patricii generis, magna vi et animi et corporis, sed ingenio malo pravoque, praetorius, qui iam a. u. c. 689 caedem consulum facere eaque facta rerum potiri constituerat, casu autem rem perficere prohibitus erat, ascitis ad consilium rei publicae...

At the Back of the North Wind CHAPTER I. THE HAY-LOFT CHAPTER II. THE LAWN CHAPTER III. OLD DIAMOND CHAPTER IV. NORTH WIND CHAPTER V. THE SUMMER-HOUSE CHAPTER VI. OUT IN THE STORM CHAPTER VII. THE CATHEDRAL CHAPTER VIII. THE EAST WINDOW CHAPTER IX....

A Pair of Blue Eyes The following chapters were written at a time when the craze for indiscriminate church-restoration had just reached the remotest nooks of western England, where the wild and tragic features of the coast had long combined in perfect harmony with...