Public Domain

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...

Books and BookmenThe essays in this volume have, for the most part, already appeared in an American edition (Combes, New York, 1886). The Essays on Old French Title-Pages and Lady Book-Lovers take the place of Book Binding and Bookmen at Rome; Elzevirs and Some...

Sight Unseen The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public;...

The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing One of the discourses in this volume"The Mission of Little Children"was written just after the death of a dear son, and was published in pamphlet form. The edition having become exhausted sooner than the demand,...

Hermann and Dorothea There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative,...

Beatrix France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefecture, or the chief city...

And Even Now I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference...

The Darrow Enigma As the part I played in the events I am about to narrate was rather that of a passive observer than of an active participant, I need say little of myself. I am a graduate of a Western university and, by...

Colonel Chabert This exclamation was made by a lawyers clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumpera messenger in factwho at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to...

A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Title: A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Author: George MacDonald Release Date: November 1, 1999 [EBook #1953] Language: English Credits: Produced by...

The Yellow Wallpaper John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician,...