The Tremendous Event

Maurice Leblanc

It was a strange ending to a voyage that had commenced in a most auspicious manner.

Maurice Leblanc

CHAPTER I THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER The rays of the September sun flooded the great halls of the old chateau of the Dukes of Charmerace, lighting up with their mellow glow the spoils of so many...

Maurice Leblanc

ILLUSTRATIONS Valmeras loved Raymonde's melancholy charm She put the gun to her shoulder, calmly took aim and fired Two huge letters, each perhaps a foot long, appeared cut in relief in the gran...

Maurice Leblanc

CHAPTER I. Lottery Ticket No. 514 CHAPTER II. The Blue Diamond CHAPTER III. Herlock Sholmes Opens Hostilities CHAPTER IV. Light in the Darkness CHAPTER V. An Abduction CHAPTER VI. Se...

Niccolò Machiavelli

by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.

Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI APPENDIX A PARODY PREFACE In the month of ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

Hermann Hesse

FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the sha...