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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled 'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator. Urquhart's...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Reader,I don't know what kind of a preface I must write to find thee courteous, an epithet too often bestowed without a cause. The author of this work has been as sparing of what we call good nature,...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled 'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator. Urquhart's...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 The text of the first Two Books of Rabelais has been reprinted from the first edition (1653) of Urquhart's translation. Footnotes initialled 'M.' are drawn from the Maitland Club edition (1838); other footnotes are by the translator. Urquhart's...
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Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Had Rabelais never written his strange and marvellous romance, no one would ever have imagined the possibility of its production. It stands outside other thingsa mixture of mad mirth and gravity, of folly and reason, of childishness and...
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The Geste of Duke JocelynThe Geste of Duke Jocelyn My daughter GILLIAN interposeth: GILL: An ugly hero? MYSELF: That is so. GILL: An ugly hero, father? O, absurd! Whoever of an ugly hero heard? MYSELF: I'll own, indeed, I've come across but few GILL: But a dukeand ugly!...
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My Man JeevesMy Man Jeeves Jeevesmy man, you knowis really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldnt know what to do without him. On broader lines hes like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the...
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Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest AuthoritiesHandbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Authorities1. The Origin of Letters.2. The Phoenician Alphabet and Inscriptions. 3, The Greek Alphabet. Its Three Epochs.4. The Medieval Scripts. The Irish. The Anglo-Saxon. The Roman. The Gothic. The Runic. 1. THE ORIGIN OF LETTERS.Alphabetic...
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Modern PaintingModern PaintingThe Editor of "The Speaker" allowed me to publish from time to time chapters of a book on art. These chapters have been gathered from the mass of art journalism which had grown about them, and I reprint them in the sequence originally...
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Fragments of Ancient PoetryFragments of Ancient Poetry The public may depend on the following fragments as genuine remains of ancient Scottish poetry. The date of their composition cannot be exactly ascertained. Tradition, in the country where they were written, refers them to an ra of the most...
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Recollections of My Childhood and YouthRecollections of My Childhood and Youth Our House--Its Inmates--My Paternal Grandfather--My Maternal Grandfather --School and Home--Farum--My Instructors--A Foretaste of Life--Contempt for the Masters--My Mother--The Mystery of Life--My First Glimpse of Beauty--The Head Master--Religion--My Standing in School--Self-esteem --An Instinct for Literature--Private Reading--Heine's Buch der Lieder--A...
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Wanderings in South AmericaWanderings in South America I offer this book of "Wanderings" with a hesitating hand. It has little merit, and must make its way through the world as well as it can. It will receive many a jostle as it goes along, and perhaps is...
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Barlasch of the GuardBarlasch of the Guard CHAPTER I. ALL ON A SUMMER'S DAY CHAPTER II. A CAMPAIGNER CHAPTER III. FATE CHAPTER IV. THE CLOUDED MOON CHAPTER V. THE WEISSEN ROSS'L CHAPTER VI. THE SHOEMAKER OF KONIGSBERG CHAPTER VII. THE WAY OF LOVE CHAPTER VIII. A VISITATION...
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Esther WatersEsther WatersShe stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporating in the pale evening. A moment more and the last carriage would pass out of sight. The white...
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Twilight and Dawn Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of CreationTwilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation * * * * * Ten years have passed since this book was first published, and in issuing a third edition it seems desirable to say a few words as to the...
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Colonel Thorndyke's SecretColonel Thorndyke's Secret Colonel Thorndyke's Secret is a story so far out of the ordinary that it will not be inappropriate to speak a few words regarding the tale and its unusually successful author, Mr. George Alfred Henty. The plot of the story hinges...
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Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical PapersRevolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers James Parton was born in Canterbury, England, February 9, 1822. When five years old he was brought to America and given an education in the schools of New York City, and at White Plains, N. Y. Subsequently he...
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The Young Engineers in Arizona or, Laying Tracks on the Man-killer QuicksandThe Young Engineers in Arizona; or, Laying Tracks on the Man-killer Quicksand CHAPTER I. THE MAN OF CARD HONOR CHAPTER II. DUFF ASSERTS HIS RIGHTS CHAPTER III. TOM MAKES A SPEECH ON GAMBLING CHAPTER IV. SOMEBODY STIRS THE MUD CHAPTER V. TOM HAS NO...
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Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Numerous and varied as have been the analyses of Ibsen's works published, in all languages, since the completion of his writings, there exists no biographical study which brings together, on a general plan, what has been recorded of his adventures as an...
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Miss Merivale's MistakeMiss Merivale's Mistake {Illustration: PAULINE SAT DOWN IN THE LOW CHAIR BY THE WINDOW AND TOOK UP THE PHOTOGRAPH FRAME.}(There are no illustrations in this version) Miss Merivale had not been paying much heed to the eager talk that was going on between Rose...
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