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The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 The Portrait of a Lady was, like Roderick Hudson, begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like Roderick and like The American, it had been designed for publication in The...

Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2) The original edition of Myth, Ritual and Religion, published in 1887, has long been out of print. In revising the book I have brought it into line with the ideas expressed in the second part of...

A Bundle of Ballads Recitation with dramatic energy by men whose business it was to travel from one great house to another and delight the people by the way, was usual among us from the first. The scop invented and the glee-man recited heroic...

ReginaldI know, you want one of her smoke Persian kittens as a prospective wife for Wumplesor a husband, is it? (Reginald has a magnificent scorn for details, other than sartorial.) And I am expected to undergo social martyrdom to suit the connubial exigencies Reginald!...

Fanny and the Servant ProblemThe Lady Bantocks boudoir, Bantock Hall, Rutlandshire, a spacious room handsomely furnished (chiefly in the style of Louis the Fourteenth) and lighted by three high windows, facing the south-west. A door between the fireplace and the windows leads to his...

Under the Deodars This is the history of a failure; but the woman who failed said that it might be an instructive tale to put into print for the benefit of the younger generation. The younger generation does not want instruction, being perfectly willing...

Aslauga's Knight Many years ago there lived in the island of Fuhnen a noble knight, called Froda, the friend of the Skalds, who was so named because he not only offered free hospitality in his fair castle to every renowned and noble bard, but...

The Two Captains A Mild summer evening was resting on the shores of Malaga, awakening the guitar of many a merry singer among the ships in the harbor, and in the city houses, and in many an ornamental garden villa. Emulating the voices of...

Undine Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave Sintram, to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh Undine, to Spring; the torrid deserts of the Two Captains, to summer; and the sunset gold...

Sintram and His Companions Four tales are, it is said, intended by the Author to be appropriate to the Four Seasons: the stern, grave Sintram, to winter; the tearful, smiling, fresh Undine, to Spring; the torrid deserts of the Two Captains, to summer; and...

The Fitz-Boodle Papers OMNIUM CLUB, May 20, 1842. DEAR SIR,I have always been considered the third-best whist-player in Europe, and (though never betting more than five pounds) have for many years past added considerably to my yearly income by my skill in the game,...

London in 1731Don Manoel Gonzales is the assumed name of the writer of a Voyage to Great Britain, containing an Account of England and Scotland, which was first printed in the first of the two folio volumes of A Collection of Voyages and Travels,...

The Story of the Gadsbys To THE ADDRESS OF CAPTAIN J. MAFFLIN, Duke of Derry's (Pink) Hussars. DEAR MAFFLIN,You will remember that I wrote this story as an Awful Warning. None the less you have seen fit to disregard it and have followed Gadsby's...

La Fin Des Livres In 1895 Octave Uzanne and Albert Robida published, in France, Contes pour les Bibliophiles ("Stories for Bibliophiles"). The eleven stories in Contes, all revolving around books (or at least printing) are interesting, bizarre, weird... one could go on in true...

Barrack Room Ballads CONTENTS First Series (1892) Danny Deever Tommy Fuzzy-Wuzzy Soldier, Soldier Screw-Guns Cells Gunga Din Oonts Loot 'Snarleyow' The Widow at Windsor Belts The Young British Soldier Mandalay Troopin' The Widow's Party Ford o' Kabul River Gentlemen-Rankers Route Marchin' Shillin' a Day...

Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography The wonderfully successful book, entitled Black Beauty, came like a living voice out of the animal kingdom. But it spake for the horse, and made other books necessary; it led the way. After the ready welcome that it received, and...

Chamber Music Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet; Strings by the river where The willows meet. Theres music along the river For Love wanders there, Pale flowers on his mantle, Dark leaves on his hair. All softly playing, With head to...

The City of the Sun Capt. I have already told you how I wandered over the whole earth. In the course of my journeying I came to Taprobane, and was compelled to go ashore at a place, where through fear of the inhabitants I...

Democracy, an American novel First published anonymously, March 1880, and soon in various unauthorized editions. It wasn't until the 1925 edition that Adams was listed as author. Henry Adams remarked (ironically as usual), The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of...

Dubliners There was no hope for him this time: it was the third stroke. Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the...