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羅生門The text was taken from a 1917 edition which is naturally written in the traditional orthography with prewar kanji forms. I have taken the liberty of using postwar orthography and kanji forms, and have also added readings in parentheses where I considered them necessary....

Le droit de lire For Dan Halbert, the road to Tycho began in college--when Lissa Lenz asked to borrow his computer. Hers had broken down, and unless she could borrow another, she would fail her midterm project. There was no one she dared ask,...

Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) Do I know why Tom Donahue is called Lucky Tom? Yes, I do; and that is more than one in ten of those who call him so can say. I have knocked about a deal in...

The Perdue Chicken CookbookWant to know a high stress situation? Try being a food writer and cookbook author, and then marry Frank Perdue. You come home from the honeymoon, everything has been wonderful and thenit's time to Cook the First Meal! Frank wants to...

Buttercup Gold, and Other Stories One cold morning Maurice awoke from his dreams and sat up in bed and listened. He thought he heard a knock at his window; but though the moon was shining brightly, Jack Frost had been so busily at work...

Phaedra JEAN BAPTISTE RACINE, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferte-Milon, December 21, 1639. He was educated at the College of Beauvais, at the great Jansenist school at Port Royal, and at the...

Peter Ruff and the Double Four BOOK ONE CHAPTER I. INTRODUCING MR. PETER RUFF CHAPTER II. A NEW CAREER CHAPTER III. VINCENT CAWDOR, COMMISSION AGENT CHAPTER IV. THE INDISCRETION OF LETTY SHAW CHAPTER V. DELILAH FROM STREATHAM CHAPTER VI. THE LITTLE LADY FROM SERVIA...

The Legacy of Cain Permit me to add your name to my name, in publishing this novel. The pen which has written my books cannot be more agreeably employed than in acknowledging what I owe to the pen which has skillfully and patiently helped...

The Poetics of Aristotle [Transcriber's Annotations and Conventions: the translator left intact some Greek words to illustrate a specific point of the original discourse. In this transcription, in order to retain the accuracy of this text, those words are rendered by spelling out each...

Tales of Troy: Ulysses, the Sacker of CitiesThe Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses How People Lived in the Time of Ulysses The Wooing of Helen of the Fair Hands The Stealing of Helen Trojan Victories Battle at the Ships The Slaying and Avenging of...

History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) 1. Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus,* to all the followers of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull...

Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His SonI forget when, but not very long after I had published Erewhon in 1872, it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhon would probably...

A Poor Wise Man The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the softened towers of the great steel...

Catherine: A Story CHAPTER VIII. ENUMERATES THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF MASTER THOMAS BILLINGSINTRODUCES BROCK AS DOCTOR WOODAND ANNOUNCES THE EXECUTION OF ENSIGN MACSHANE. CHAPTER IX. INTERVIEW BETWEEN COUNT GALGENSTEIN AND MASTER THOMAS BILLINGS, WHEN HE INFORMS THE COUNT OF HIS PARENTAGE. CHAPTER X. SHOWING HOW...

The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix In giving the general title of "The Human Comedy" to a work begun nearly thirteen years since, it is necessary to explain its motive, to relate its origin, and briefly sketch its plan, while endeavoring to speak of...

The Brotherhood of Consolation On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to...

The Path of the King The three of us in that winter camp in the Selkirks were talking the slow aimless talk of wearied men. The Soldier, who had seen many campaigns, was riding his hobby of the Civil War and descanting on Lee's...

Captain Blood CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER CHAPTER II. KIRKE'S DRAGOONS CHAPTER III. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CHAPTER IV. HUMAN MERCHANDISE CHAPTER V. ARABELLA BISHOP CHAPTER VI. PLANS OF ESCAPE CHAPTER VII. PIRATES CHAPTER VIII. SPANIARDS CHAPTER IX. THE REBELS-CONVICT CHAPTER X. DON DIEGO CHAPTER...

The Confession I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at one...

A Defence of Poesie and PoemsPhilip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Philip was the eldest of their family of...