Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing

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...

Lewis Carroll

LIST OF THE PLATES _To face page_ Alice _Frontispiece_ The Pool of Tears ...

Lewis Carroll

CHAPTER I. Looking-Glass house One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Lewis Carroll

[Illustration] 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.

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.