Modern Mythology

Andrew Lang

after the edition of Longmans, Green and Co, 1918 (1898) Contents Preface The Arabian Nights The Story of the Merchant and the Genius The Story of the First Old Man and of the Hind T...

Andrew Lang

THE GOLD-SPINNERS THE TERRIBLE HEAD THE STORY OF PRETTY GOLDILOCKS THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON THE WONDERFUL SHEEP LITTLE THUMB THE FORTY THIEVES HANSEL AND GRETTE...

Andrew Lang

[Bust of Athene.

Andrew Lang

Definitions of religion--Contradictory evidence--"Belief in spiritual beings"--Objection to Mr. Tylor's definition--Definition as regards this argument--Problem: the contradiction between rel...

Niccolò Machiavelli

by Nicolo Machiavelli Translated by W. K. Marriott Nicolo Machiavelli, born at Florence on 3rd May 1469.

Frederick Douglass

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI APPENDIX A PARODY PREFACE In the month of ...

J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

All children, except one, grow up.

Hermann Hesse

FIRST PART To Romain Rolland, my dear friend THE SON OF THE BRAHMAN In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the sha...