Beauty and the Beast

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

version by Al Haines.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) [Illustration: FRONTISPIECE] THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK: OR, THE THREE WISHES.

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.