The Ferryman of Brill, and Other Stories

William Henry Giles Kingston

Great African Travellers, from Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves, updated to 1900, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

The Western World, by W.H.G. Kingston.

William Henry Giles Kingston

Captain Cook, his Life, Voyages and Discoveries, by W.H.G. Kingston.

Robert Louis Stevenson

STORY OF THE DOOR Mr. Utterson the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrassed in discourse; backward in sentiment; lean, long, dusty,...

Henrik Ibsen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE Torvald Helmer.

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...

Charles Dickens

PREFACE I HAVE endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.