The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People

Anonymous

CONTAINING, I. An Address to all _well provided_ HIBERNIANS; II. The ARBOR VITAE; or, Tree of Life.

Anonymous

[Transcriber's note: Anonymous, _Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover_ (1890) A classic Victorian erotic novel] Laura Middleton; HER BROTHER AND HER LOVER.

Anonymous

[Illustration: _The genie immediately returned with a tray bearing dishes of the most delicious viands.

Anonymous

[Transcriber's note: Anonymous, _The power of mesmerism_ (1891), 1891 edition.

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.