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The Chimes - A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year InThere are not many peopleand as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I...

Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaRasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was fifty. He had written his London in 1738; his Vanity of Human Wishes in 1740; his Rambler between March, 1750, and March, 1752. In 1755 his Dictionary...

Phantasmagoria and Other Poemsp. 8At least, I said, Im glad to find A Ghost is not a dumb thing! But pray sit down: youll feel inclined (If, like myself, you have not dined) To take a snack of something: With this you make a...

Pictures from ItalyIf the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its authors reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and...

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of EnglandIn 1846, the Percy Society issued to its members a volume entitled Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England, edited by Mr. James Henry Dixon. The sources drawn upon by Mr. Dixon...

Wild Wales: Its People, Language and SceneryThis edition of Wild Wales has been carefully collated with the first edition, in order to ensure that the spelling of proper names shall be precisely as Borrow left it, and the running headings on the right-hand pages...

The DynamiterGentlemen,In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our...

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific OceanI was a boy when I went through the wonderful adventures herein set down. With the memory of my boyish feelings strong upon me, I present my book specially to boys, in the earnest hope that...

The Figure in the CarpetI had done a few things and earned a few penceI had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a...

The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainFar be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken,...

The Death of the LionI had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my chief, as he was called in the office: he had the high mission...

The Altar of the DeadHe had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place...

The Violet Fairy Book The Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them out of his own head. He is accustomed...

The Yellow Fairy Book The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say...

The God-Idea of the Ancients; Or, Sex in Religion Through a study of the primitive god-idea as manifested in monumental records in various parts of the world; through scientific investigation into the early religious conceptions of mankind as expressed by symbols which appear in...

An Outcast of the Islands An Outcast of the Islands is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was no hesitation, half-formed plan, vague idea, or the...

The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2DEAREST KATHARINE,Here, on a very little book and accompanied with lame verses, I have put your name. Our kindness is now getting well on in years; it must be nearly of age; and it gets more...

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 "Il est bon de connaitre les delires de l'esprit humain. Chaque people a ses folies plus ou moins grossieres." MILLOT In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and...

Miscellaneous Mathematical Constants 1-6/(Pi^2) to 5000 digits. 1/log(2) the inverse of the natural logarithm of 2 to 2000 places. 1/sqrt(2*Pi) to 1024 digits. sum(1/2^(2^n),n=0..infinity). to 1024 digits. 3/(Pi*Pi) to 2000 digits. arctan(1/2) to 1000 digits. The Artin's Constant = product(1-1/(p**2-p),p=prime) The Backhouse constant The...

The Golden Mean or Ratio[(1+sqrt(5))/2] - To 20,000 placesCatalan evaluation 170000 digits of gamma or Euler constant The Artin's Constant The Backhouse Constant Zeta(3) or Apery Constant Zeta(1,2) or the derivative of Zeta function at 2 Feigenbaum reduction parameter Feigenbaum bifurcation velocity constant Franson-Robinson...