Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I

Horace Walpole

[Picture: Decorative graphic] CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED _LONDON_, _PARIS_, _NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_ 1901 INTRODUCTION...

Horace Walpole

[Transcriber's Note: Archaic spellings in the original text have been retained in this version.] HIEROGLYPHIC TALES.

Horace Walpole

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME I London T. FISHER UNWIN PATERNOSTER SQUARE NEW YORK: G.P. PUTNAM'S SONS MDCCCXC CONTENTS.

Horace Walpole

[Illustration: COUNT OF NARBONNE THEODORE--SHE HASTENED TO THE CAVE AND VANISHED FROM MY SIGHT ACT I SCENE I PAINTED BY COOK PUBLISH'D BY LONGMAN & CO.

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...