The Staircase At The Heart's Delight 1894

Anna Katharine Green

BOOK I. THE PROBLEM I. "A GREAT CASE" "A deed of dreadful note."

Anna Katharine Green

CONTENTS I THE GOLDEN SLIPPER II THE SECOND BULLET III THE INTANGIBLE CLEW IV THE GROTTO SPECTRE V THE DREAMING LADY VI THE HOUSE OF CLOCKS VII THE DOCTOR,...

Anna Katharine Green

"In the spring of 1840, the attention of the New York police was attracted by the many cases of well-known men found drowned in the various waters surrounding the lower portion of our great city.

Anna Katharine Green

Author of "The House Of The Whispering Pines," "Initials Only," "Dark Hollow," Etc.

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.