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The Zeppelin's Passenger Never heard a sound, the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night...

Penguin Island Mal, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took...

The School for Scandal The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that a closing bracket "]" has been added to the stage directions. For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at...

Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not...

Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 1THERE is so much of mystification resorted to, at the present time, in the publication of books, that it has become proper that the editor of Elinor Wyllys should explain what has been...

The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair - Or, True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808 IN writing this ponderous tome, the authors desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the...

Droll Stories — Volume 1 When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher's name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would...

Many Voices: PoemsThe grass was gray with the moonlit dew, The stones were white as I came through; I came down the path by the thirteen yews, Through the blocks of shade that the moonlight hews. And when I came to the high lych-gate...

The Poisoned PenPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...

Deirdre of the Sorrows Lavarchams house on Slieve Fuadh. There is a door to inner room on the left, and a door to open air on the right. Window at back and a frame with a half-finished piece of tapestry. There are also a...

The Chouans Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning...

Billy Baxter's LettersPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...

Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems CONTENTS BALLADS. GRAND'THER BALDWIN'S THANKSGIVING ST. NICHOLAS. BARBARA'S COURTSHIP. THE CONFESSION. ROSE IN THE GARDEN. PHOEBE'S WOOING. THE LOST HEART. JOHN MAYNARD. FRIAR ANSELMO. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. THE CHURCH AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON. MRS. BROWNING'S GRAVE AT FLORENCE. MY...

Long Odds The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I...

The Queen of Hearts AT a time when French readers were altogether unaware of the existence of any books of my writing, a critical examination of my novels appeared under your signature in the Revue des Deux Mondes. I read that article, at the...

The Great Stone Face, and Other Tales of the White Mountains THE first three numbers in this collection are tales of the White Hills in New Hampshire. The passages from Sketches from Memory show that Hawthorne had visited the mountains in one of his...

The Second Thoughts of an Idle FellowIm sure I dont know what I do want now. I had made up my mind a minute ago, and now its all gone againoh yes, I remember, the red. Yes, Ill have the red. No, I dont...

The Drums of Jeopardy A fast train drew into Albany, on the New York Central, from the West. It was three-thirty of a chill March morning in the first year of peace. A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it...

The Muse of the Department On the skirts of Le Berry stands a town which, watered by the Loire, infallibly attracts the travelers eye. Sancerre crowns the topmost height of a chain of hills, the last of the range that gives variety to the...

Concerning Christian Liberty; with Letter of Martin Luther to Pope Leo X. Among those monstrous evils of this age with which I have now for three years been waging war, I am sometimes compelled to look to you and to call you to mind,...