Biographical Sketches (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces")

Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Contents The Birthmark Young Goodman Brown Rappaccini's Daughter Mrs. Bullfrog The Celestial Railroad The Procession of Life Feathertop: A Moralized Legend Egotism; or, The Bosom ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Washington Irving

A pleasing land of drowsy head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, Forever flushing round a summer sky.

Ayn Rand

PART ONE It is a sin to write this.

Aristophanes

statement is made that it may be rejected.

William Strunk

This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.