The French Revolution

Hilaire Belloc

CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN _Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years_ Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. [Illustration] DUCKWORT...

Hilaire Belloc

PREFACE The object of these few pages is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books.

Hilaire Belloc

[Illustration: Hebrew text] Constable & Company, Limited London Bombay Sydney First Published 1922 Second Impression 1922 To MISS RUBY GOLDSMITH MY SECRETARY FOR MANY YEARS AT K...

Hilaire Belloc

[Illustration] THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS Verses by H. BELLOC Pictures by B. T. B. DUCKWORTH, ...

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...