The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

CHAPTER I. THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK THE suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

By G. K. Chesterton Contents The Blue Cross The Secret Garden The Queer Feet The Flying Stars ...

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

I INTRODUCTION IN DEFENCE OF EVERYTHING ELSE THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.

G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

By G.K. Chesterton Prefatory Note: This ballad needs no historical notes, for the simple reason that it does not profess to be historical.

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

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