The Purcell Papers — Volume 1

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

J. Sheridan LeFanu 1872 PROLOGUE _Upon a paper attached to the Narrative which follows, Doctor Hesselius has written a rather elaborate note, which he accompanies with a reference to his Essay...

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The Rev.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Schalken the Painter _"For he is not a man as I am that we should come together; neither is there any that might lay his hand upon us both.

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.