The Land of Little Rain

Mary Hunter Austin

East away from the Sierras, south from Panamint and Amargosa, east and south many an uncounted mile, is the Country of Lost Borders.

Mary Hunter Austin

I HOW OLIVER AND DORCAS JANE FOUND THE TRAIL From the time that he had first found, himself alone with them, Oliver had felt sure that the animals could come alive again if they wished.

Mary Hunter Austin

CHAPTER I It is strange that I can never think of writing any account of my life without thinking of Pauline Mills and wondering what she will say of it.

Mary Hunter Austin

WATER TRAILS OF THE CERISO THE SCAVENGERS THE POCKET HUNTER SHOSHONE LAND JIMVILLE--A BRET HARTE TOWN MY NEIGHBOR'S FIELD THE MESA TRAIL THE BASKET MAKER ...

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was r...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.