The House of Souls

Arthur Machen

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Arthur Machen

CONTENTS I THE EXPERIMENT II MR. CLARKE'S MEMOIRS III THE CITY OF RESURRECTIONS IV THE DISCOVERY IN PAUL STREET V THE LETTER OF ADVICE VI THE SUICIDES VII THE ENCOUNTER...

Arthur Machen

TRANSLATOR OF 'L'HEPTAMERON' AND 'LE MOYEN DE PARVENIR'; AUTHOR OF 'THE CHRONICLE OF CLEMENDY' AND 'THE GREAT GOD PAN' BOSTON: Roberts Bros, 1895 LONDON: John Lane, Vigo st. CONTENTS ...

Arthur Machen

CHAPTER I _The Coming of the Terror_ After two years we are turning once more to the morning's news with a sense of appetite and glad expectation.

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...