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The Jacket (The Star-Rover) All my life I have had an awareness of other times and places. I have been aware of other persons in me.Oh, and trust me, so have you, my reader that is to be. Read back into your childhood, and...

Jerry of the IslandsIt is a misfortune to some fiction-writers that fiction and unveracity in the average persons mind mean one and the same thing. Several years ago I published a South Sea novel. The action was placed in the Solomon Islands. The action...

The GameMany patterns of carpet lay rolled out before them on the floortwo of Brussels showed the beginning of their quest, and its ending in that direction; while a score of ingrains lured their eyes and prolonged the debate between desire pocket-book. The head...

Fire-Tongue CHAPTER I. A CLIENT FOR PAUL HARLEY CHAPTER II. THE SIXTH SENSE CHAPTER III. SHADOWS CHAPTER IV. INTRODUCING MR. NICOL BRINN CHAPTER V. THE GATES OF HELL CHAPTER VI. PHIL ABINGDON ARRIVES CHAPTER VII. CONFESSIONS CHAPTER VIII. A WREATH OF HYACINTHS CHAPTER IX....

Penrod and Sam CHAPTER I. PENROD AND SAM CHAPTER II. THE BONDED PRISONER CHAPTER III. THE MILITARIST CHAPTER IV. BINGISM CHAPTER V. THE IN-OR-IN CHAPTER VI. GEORGIE BECOMES A MEMBER CHAPTER VII. WHITEY CHAPTER VIII. SALVAGE CHAPTER IX. REWARD OF MERIT CHAPTER X. CONSCIENCE...

Damaged Goods - The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author My endeavor has been to tell a simple story, preserving as closely as possible the spirit and feeling of the original. I have tried, as it were,...

BabbittThe towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures...

The Secret Adversary It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being...

The Voyages of Doctor DolittleALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known himindeed a great deal of it took place before I was born. But I now come to set down...

The Chessmen of Mars Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention for the nth time to that...

The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda In offering to the reader this translation of the most complete and dramatic form of the great Epic of the North, we lay no claim to special critical insight, nor do...

The Nibelungenlied This work has been undertaken in the belief that a literal translation of as famous an epic as the "Nibelungenlied" would be acceptable to the general reading public whose interest in the story of Siegfried has been stimulated by Wagner's operas and...

The Danish History, Books I-IX Forasmuch as all other nations are wont to vaunt the glory of their achievements, and reap joy from the remembrance of their forefathers: Absalon, Chief Pontiff of the Danes, whose zeal ever burned high for the glorification of our...

From London to Land's End - and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman"At the end of this book there are a couple of letters from a volume of the Travels in England which were not by Defoe, although resembling Defoes...

The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through WalesSince those things, which are known to have been done through a laudable devotion, are not unworthily extolled with due praises; and since the mind, when relaxed, loses its energy, and the torpor of sloth enervates the understanding,...

A Journey from This World to the Next Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion...

The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon In the beginning of August, 1753, when I had taken the duke of Portland's medicine, as it is called, near a year, the effects of which had been the carrying off the symptoms of a lingering imperfect...

Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim - Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda CHAPTER I. THE QUEENS GOOD-BY CHAPTER II. A STATION WITHOUT A CAB CHAPTER III. AGAIN TO ZENDA CHAPTER IV. AN EDDY ON THE MOAT CHAPTER V. AN...

In the Cage It had occurred to her early that in her positionthat of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpieshe should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made...

Notes on Life & LettersAUTOCRACY AND WAR1905 THE CRIME OF PARTITION1919 A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM1916 POLAND REVISITED1915 FIRST NEWS1918 WELL DONE1918 TRADITION1918 CONFIDENCE1919 FLIGHT1917 SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE LOSS OF THE TITANIC1912 CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE ADMIRABLE INQUIRY INTO THE LOSS OF...